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From: "Roy Johnson" <>
Subject: [PACE-L] Re: Hotten
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 14:12:30 -0500


I agree entirely. In my area of the country, being from a "good family"
means an honest, hard-working, respected family. It was only in song ("..it
was a very good year for uptown girls from good families in black limousines
and their chauffeurs would drive, when I was 35...."), on the east coast,
and in Europe, that I found the term "good families" to have a social
meaning.

Nonetheless, if we are to say an ancestor was of this or that class,
indentured servant, gentry, or whatever, it is a factual statement and
should have solid evidence behind it.

Looks like to me you can't prove it one way or the other regarding Richard
Pace and the gentry. For my part, I would just leave it out.

Roy Johnson

----- Original Message -----
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Sent: Monday, August 02, 1999 1:13 PM
Subject: Re: Hotten

> Dear Fellow Pace Researchers,
>
> Well, as a result of all these emails over this book, I called the
librarian
> in the Genealogical Research Room (Virginia Room) at our Main Library.
She
> picked up the book and said that the 1931 version published by G. A. Baler
> was reprinted from 2nd Edition in New York in 1880. The book she was
holding
> in her hand was reprinted in 1962 by the General Publishing Company in
> Baltimore. She said I correctly listed the title as the source and that
the
> rest was the sub-title. Apparently, from Roy's email, there is a reprint
> 1980 by the Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. in Baltimore. As for all
the
> variations as to the title it sounds like maybe someone was doing a little
> editing on top of someone else's editing - who knows, we were not alive in
> 1880 nor when the original was published. The librarian is looking for
that
> now.
>
> I would like to add this to the discussion. I don't know much about
Richard
> Pace of Jamestown yet as I have only begun reading and researching on the
> subject recently. But I do know this. He married in England, brought his
> bride (and a baby) into a strange land full of all kinds of unknown perils
> and opportunities. He took some land and planted it, apparently built a
> pretty secure home (his carpenter talents), rowed across the James River
and
> warned the colony of the Indian attack. He saved a lot of lives that
> harrowing night. He didn't live very long but he accomplished a great
deal
> in the time he had. His "social" status to me is immaterial. He was
> adventurous, resourceful, courageous, and had to be very creative and
> innovative in a land where there were no big stores with foods, medicines,
> building materials and tools handy. There was no army or navy to call for
> when the going got rough. To me, he was a man of quality.
>
> Thanks for "listening,"
> Franne
>

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