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Walter, thanks for that. I didn't have the record for Nicholas Whitmore Jr. That's very interesting.
Richard Pace did die around 1678. At the time of his death, he was an executor of the estate of Hugh Kirkland. When he died, that executorship passed to *his* executor, his widow Mary, and when she remarried to Whitmore, I guess as her husband he was legally responsible.
Richard Pace also had guardianship of the Kirkland orphans, and Mary went to court when her husband Richard died and got her guardianship of the orphans confirmed. So she was guardian of Thomas Kirkland during his minority.
The full story behind that 1692 record is not known, but it looks like Kirkland's son Thomas wasn't very happy with his guardians, or with the way they were handling the estate which (presumably) he was due to inherit.
So that's why the record appears long after Richard Pace's death.
The Weisiger books certainly are very helpful. I don't own them but I use them at the library. Another book that's very helpful for Charles City (and other counties too for that matter) is "Adventurers of Purse and Person", ed. John Frederick Dorman, available from the Genealogical Publishing Co (http://www.genealogical.com/), although it's three volumes and pretty expensive so I always use it in the library.
Thanks again for the information.
James
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