Mary Baker

Abt 1640 - Yes, date unknown

• Name	Mary Baker  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1640	Virginia   [2]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Yes, date unknown
  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.
  Person ID	I8178	Strong Family Tree
  Last Modified	17 Aug 2014

  
  

  Family	Richard Pace, II,   b. Abt 1636, Charles City County, Virginia d. Abt 1677 (Age 41 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1660  [1]
  Children	1. Richard Pace, III,   b. Abt 1661   d. 1738, Northhampton County, North Carolina (Age 77 years)   2. Sarah Pace,   b. Abt 1662   d. Yes, date unknown   3. George Pace,   b. Abt 1663   d. Yes, date unknown   4. Thomas Pace,   b. Abt 1665   d. Yes, date unknown   5. James Pace,   b. Abt 1666   d. Yes, date unknown   6. John Pace,   b. Abt 1669   d. Yes, date unknown   7. Ann Pace,   b. Abt 1671   d. Yes, date unknown   8. Elizabeth Pace,   b. Abt 1673   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F2009	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Dec 2006

  
  

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• Sources

  [S191] Matkin, Marianne--Family Researcher (correspondence). [S119] Halbert Hackney, Eva Mae--Family Researcher; Notes left to Blanche Toole of Sabine County, Texas.