Source: CAVALIERS AND PIONEERS Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants VOLUME FIVE: 1741-1749 Abstracted by Nell Marion Nugent Edited by Dennis Ray Hudgins ROBERT HARRIS, JUNIOR, 150 acs. Is. of Wight Co. on the S side of the Main Blackwater Sw. & both sides of the North fork of black Cr., in a Pocoson, adj. Robert Monger Junior; 25 July 1746, p. 302. 15 Shill. ROBERT HARRIS, 200 acs. Is. of Wight Co. on the N side of Black Cr., by the side of Franks Br., in Black Creek Pocoson; adj. Thomas Marks, George Harris & his own old Lines; 12 May 1747, p. 597. 1 Pound {Franks Br. related to Indian Frank's Quarter in Barneby MackQuinny's 3,435 acs. in PB 10, p. 222 dated 23 Dec 1714. Indian Frank also had a part of the Nottoway Indian 6-mile Circle Tract.} Does anyone know what Pocoson is or means? Are these two men father and son? Any insight is appreciated. Please respond through HH or H- COLONIALVA so that others may be helped. Ira L. Harris III Evv., In.