-------------- Original message from "Becky Mosely" <beckymosely@comcast.net>: -------------- George's Patent 1650: "commonly called Matocks....." (I haven't been able to locate a plantation on the James called Matocks, on Powell's Creek by Pierce's Hundred.) Bruce Howard, of course, thinks this is a corruption of Maycocks. Several have questioned this because Matocks would today be pronounced with a short "a" but that was not necessarily so then. Maycocks could be easily corrupted and pronounced "May-tocks" and spelled Matocks. I have heard many similar letters crisscrossed like this in the area where I live. In the absence of any place named Matocks, I would lean to this as a possible conclusion. Roy