3      George Messick    b: September 05, 1733 in Somerset Co, MD    d: 1781 in Sussex Co, DE                        ..............................        +Patience Ingram            Father: Jacob Ingram    Mother: Charity // Ingram                ......................................    * * * * The 1733 date for George Messick's birth is too late for the land transactions that take place and the various wills he's part of. Jacob Ingram will dated 7 August 1752 states he gives....."unto my daughter Patience Messick fifty acres of land lying at the North side of the tract of Land I now Live on and now in the tenure possession and Occupation of George Messick......" A little math will show that George is 18 when the will is drawn up. He could be married but it's highly unlikely he's going to be in tenure possession of 50 acres of land and be under 21. >From Land Records of Wicomico County, Maryland 1666-1810 by Ruth Dryden. p. 269. Land patented in 1741 by John Messick for 100 acres. 20 July 1771 George Messick of Sussex Co., DE son of John sold to George Farrington 50 acres. (Not son of Isaac. There are four different George Messicks in Sussex Co., DE.) According to the will of George Messick of 1781 he mentions his daughter Nancy Ratliff wife of William Ratliff. William Ratliff left a will in 1800 where he names his sons Charles and Samuel. Checking the 1790 census and the tax rolls there will be a Charles as head of a household which means he is 21 + and born before 1770. He is George Messick's GRANDSON and he's born when his grandfather is 37 at the most. Could happen but really pushing it. Samuel Ratliff appears on the 1786 tax list, along with his father William in the Levy Court Proceedings RG#4200. Roll #1.. If Samuel Ratliff is paying taxes in 1786 he can't be the grandson of George Messick who was born in 1733 because Samuel would have been born ca. 1765 and his grandfather would have been 32 at the time. This George Messick may have been named for the new King of Great Britain George I who came to power in 1714 in opposition to the Catholic pretender. The Messick family were Protestant and there was no male named George until after 1714. There was an uprising in Scotland in 1715 in favor of the Catholic Pretender. It's called "The '15" . Many protestants started using the name of George to show their support of the new Protestant king. Things changed after 1760 when George III became king.