Long ago, I stumbled upon a book in the Los Angeles Public Library, genealogy/history section, a book compiled by Charles Blunt. I have cut and pasted some of the information below. If you live in Virginia, perhaps you can find a copy in your one of your State's libraries. I cannot speak for other States. This search for Hanover land patents was conducted many years before so much information was on the internet, including the abstracts of the Virginia land patents. The colonial and some post-Revolutionary patents also are abstracted in the eight volumes of Cavaliers and Pioneers, a few volumes of which may be in your public library. The first three volumes were published LONG ago, but the succeeding volumes have only been published in the 1990s by the Virginia Genealogical Society. C&P provide some great people-finders. A Matlock is mentioned in Blunt's book, but I suggest you use the Library of Virginia website--the digitized library--and check land records. Then search for Matlock and its variant spellings. I believe several Matlock males appear in the abstracts of deeds ca 1730s compiled years ago by Mrs. Rosalie Edith Davis of Manchester, MO. She is still selling her books. If you want her website, ask for it. E.W.Wallace Gen 975.51 H24Blu Author _Blunt, Charles P., 1948-_ (http://catalog1.lapl.org/cgi-bin/cw_cgi?doSearch+30984+965+_+//NB/Blunt,_Charles_P.,_1948+-0+ -1) (http://catalog1.lapl.org/cgi-bin/cw_cgi?doSearch+30984+965+_+//NB/+-0+-1) Title(s) Land patents and grants of Hanover County, Virginia (1721-1800) / compiled by Charles P. Blunt IV. Publisher [Danville, Virginia?] : C.P. Blunt, [c1980] Paging 92, [26] p. ; 28 cm. Notes Includes index. Subject Headings _Land grants Virginia Hanover County._ (http://catalog1.lapl.org/cgi-bin/cw_cgi?doSearch+30984+965+_+//SB/Land_grants_Virginia_Hanover_Count y+-0+-1) _Hanover County (Va.) Genealogy._ (http://catalog1.lapl.org/cgi-bin/cw_cgi?doSearch+30984+965+_+//SB/Hanover_County_Va__Genealogy+-0+-1) Format qEnglish