Pace-Maycock-Lee

By Alice Mae Lee, 1982

The emigrant ancestor of the Pace family was Richard Pace, born c 1590 in England, died 1622-1623 in James City County, VA, who with his wife, Isabella Smyth, came to Jamestorn, VA, from Stepney Parish, London about 1610.He was married in St. Dunstan’s, London October 5, 1608.His occupation was given as carpenter.Captain John Smith in Smith’s "General Historie" Vol. IV, credits Richard Pace with having saved the Jamestown Colony from an Indian massacre in 1622.However, the honor of saving hundred of lives belongs to a Christian Indian, names Chanco.Richard Pace had adopted this good Indian.As the time drew near he could not bring himself to take part in the horrible work which he had been ordered to do.He woke the planter in the middle of the night and told him about the plot.The planter quickly made his own home secure.Then he ran to his boat and rowed as swiftly as he could to Jamestown to warn the people there.Jamestown was saved, but by that time it was too late to warn the more distant plantations.The family played an important role in the early days of the settlement of the VA Colony.Richard Pace is referred to in Virginia history as an "Ancient Planter’.His home on the James River was known as Pace’s Paines.Following the death of Richard, Isabella married 2^nd William Perry and 3^rd George Menefie.Isabella was born about 1595 and died after 1637.Religion was a very important factor in the early days of Jamestown.One of the first buildings erected was a church.Samuel Maycock was a sizar at Jesus College, Cambridge, England, and reported to be highly spoken of by his contemporaries.A sizaar was an undergraduate at Cambridge University, England, and Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, who received aid from the college for maintenance.Samuel Maycock was sent to Jamestown, to serve as minister of the church, at the request of Governor Argall March 1617.His wife accompanied him.The Right Reverend Samuel Maycock was not only a ‘Minister of the Gospel’ but also a capable manager and valuable adviser.In a discussion of the Governor’s councilors he was termed a gentleman of birth, virtue and industry.But disaster came.In the Massacre of March 22, 1622, the Indians killed Samuel Maycock.There is no mention of Samuel Maycock’s wife or his infant daughter named Sarah.This daughter had been born only a few weeks before the Massacre and the fact that she and her mother were not among those listed as killed was evidently due to the fact that Mrs. Maycock died at childbirth and friends in Jamestown were caring for little Sarah.The census of 1624 shows that little Sarah was born in Virginia, that she was two years of age at the time of the census, and was then living in the home of Captain Roger Smith.Sarah Maycock, the only child of Samuel Maycock, married George Pace.Richard Pace, II, and the son of George and Sarah Pace sold the Maycock plantation to Thomas Drew.There is a marker on Route 10 from Surry to Petersburg, Virginia, that reads a s follows:

MAYCOCK PLANTATION

Six Miles North, on James River, The place was patented about 1618 by Samuel Maycock, slain in the Massacre of 1622,In 1774 David Meade became the owner.There Cornwallis crossed the River May 24, 1781. Anthony Wayne crossed their August 30, 1781.

Nothing is known about the ancestors of Ludbrook Lee as of this date, August 1, 1982.