The Pace family is one of the oldest families in America. Richard and Isabella Pace came to Virginia from St. Dunstan's, Stepney, England, between 1610 and 1616. They were "Ancient Planters", which means someone who was sent by the London Company to take up land in Virginia, each receiving 100 acres of land to inhabit. They owned a tobacco plantation which they named Pace's Paines across the river from Jamestown. Richard Pace was credited with warning the residents of Jamestown of an Indian massacre, thus saving many of them from being killed in the massacre of 1622, which took over 300 lives. Joyce's Pace ancestors descend from Richard Pace through several generations to Mary Ann Rebecca Pace, wife of Jesse Moses Young. She was the great-granddaughter of Rev. Barnabas Pace, born in South Carolina, died in Greene County, Georgia, who wrote extensively on the Pace family. The Pace Society of America has published much Pace Research over the years and are the repository for much of the published information on the Pace family.