14 Facts About Joseph Paice

Joseph Paice was an English merchant, known for his charitable works.

Joseph Paice heard from Jonathan Edwards in 1752; and Elisha Williams had Joseph Dwight deliver to William Pepperrell a letter the following year, prompting Pepperrell to wrote to Paice and give the other side of Dwight's clash with Edwards.

Joseph Paice was in the Paragon Building there on the New Kent Road in 1800, when he was made an executor and beneficiary in the will of Mary Wilkes, daughter of John Wilkes.

Joseph Paice finally lived in the Rodney Buildings in St Mary Newington.

Joseph Paice was unmarried; Lamb in his essay "Modern Gallantry" states that he had courted Susan Winstanley of Clapton, who died young.

Joseph Paice's heir was his ward Frederick Gibson, who became principal customs surveyor of London Docks.

Joseph Paice was involved in the estate of the merchant Thomas Lucas, who died in 1784.

The plantation, subject to annuities, was left in trust, Joseph Paice being one of the trustees.

Anne Manning came into possession of original correspondence of Joseph Paice, and published some details in the 1840s.

Joseph Paice sold some of the enslaved people from his plantations, through Nathaniel Stewart of Tobago, asking that lower prices be accepted so that they might go to more humane owners.

Thomas Lucas Wheeler's widow Betty married again, in 1793; but Joseph Paice was concerned to make the property Wheeler had left her freehold.

Anne Manning wrote that Joseph Paice was disappointed in love, by a Miss Hunt of Ewell; she married his cousin Nathaniel Mason, Joseph Paice having decided not to press his suit.

Joseph Paice later dealt in land in the Bedfordshire parishes of Odell and Sharnbrook.

Joseph Paice bought further land for enclosure in Irchester parish, and in other counties.