Pace's Paines

K-224

Nearby to the north, Richard Pace and his family received a land patent in Dec. 1620 establishing Pace's Paines plantation. In response to English expansion into Indian lands, such as occurred at Pace's Paines and elsewhere, Chief Opechancanough planned a 22 Mar. 1622 coordinated offensive on English settlements. Prior to the event, Pace learned about the impending affair from a Virginia Indian living with him. Pace rowed a boat across the James River to Jamestown and told Gov. Sir Francis Wyatt of the danger. Jamestown was not attacked, but many residents of outlying plantations died in the conflict.

Department of Historic Resources, 2005

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References/Bibliographic Citation:

Philip L. Barbour, ed., The Complete Works of John Smith (1580-1631) in Three Volumes, (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1986), 2:297-298; John B. Boddie, Colonial Surry (1948; Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1966), 29-31; Frederick W. Gleach, Powhatan's World and Colonial Virginia: Conflict in Cultures (Lincoln and London: The University of Nebraska Press, 1997), 148-153; Susan Myra Kingsbury, The Records of the Virginia Company of London (4 vols.; Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1906-1935), 3:555, 3: 682; Pace’s Paine Site, VDHR archives file (90-61); Martha W. McCartney, “Early Origins: The Pace and Perry Plantation,” http://www.mountpleasantrestoration.com/html/resear/histre-3.html; Helen C. Rountree, “The Powhatans and the English: A Case of Multiple Conflicting Agendas,” in Helen C. Rountree, ed., Powhatan Foreign Relations, 1500-1722 (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 1993), 185, 256; Helen C. Rountree, Pocahontas’s People: The Powhatan Indians of Virginia Through Four Centuries (Norman, Ok. and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1990), 73-74, 303-304; E. Randolph Turner, III and Antony F. Opperman, Searching for Virginia Company Period Sites: An Assessment of Surviving Archaeological Manifestations of Powhatan-English Interactions, A.D. 1607-1624 (Forthcoming), 3:27-29; Emily J. Salmon and Edward D. C. Campbell, Jr., eds., The Hornbook of Virginia History, 4th ed. (Richmond: Library of Virginia, 1994), 14.