Mary Baker

Notes:

Richard's wife has sometimes been listed as Mary Knowles. This was "based on the very weak premise that nearly a hundred years later, a descendant named one of their children Knowles Pace, which was also spelled Noel Pace in other records."

However, Bruce Howard says that Richard's wife was Mary Baker, based on the following deed of gift:

Page 530 Att a Court held att Westov'r 3 Feb 1664/5. Deed of gift dated 21 Jany 1664/5. Richard Baker gives to Richard Pace a parcel of land "lying on the other side of the bottome on the West side of the aforesd Bakers plantacon conteyning one hundred and forty acres in bredth from the aforesd bottome and so holding the same bredth Downe to the great Swamp beginning upon the line of the aforesd Bakers at the head of the aforesd bottome..."

Richard x Baker

Wit: Wm Harris, Patrick Jackson, Caesar Walpole Recorded 7 Febr 1664/5

It is the author's contention that Richard Pace married Mary Baker, the daughter of Richard Baker. The plantation he inherited from his parents was too large for them to manage and a small part of it had been worked for several years. But Richard Pace did not want to, or could not afford to, hire sufficient people to work the place, and Richard Baker gave them 140 acre tract as a dowry for his daughter, with the understanding that his wife, Ann Baker, be allowed to remain at the homeplace for the rest of her life.

After her husbands death, Mary remarried, first to William Briscoe. William was sued several times over debts left by Richard Pace, and this apparently upset him mightly. He and Mary seperated. After his death, Mary Baker Pace Briscoe married a third and final time to a widower by the name of Nicholas Whittmore.

Mary married Richard Pace, II about 1660. Richard (son of George Pace and Sarah ???) was born about 1636 in Charles City County, Virginia; died about 1677. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Richard Pace, III was born about 1661; died in 1738 in Northhampton County, North Carolina.
2. Sarah Pace was born about 1662; and died.
3. George Pace was born about 1663; and died.
4. Thomas Pace was born about 1665; and died.
5. James Pace was born about 1666; and died.
6. John Pace was born about 1669; and died.
7. Ann Pace was born about 1671; and died.
8. Elizabeth Pace was born about 1673; and died.