Dennis Hudgins platted the Caroline patents. Searching for 1667, then 3000 did not produce any patents for any variant of the name. Dennis had plenty of references to King William and Essex in the patent texts.
Assuming you’ve been on the LVA patent web page and gone through them?
Lyle Browning, RPA
> On Aug 14, 2023, at 9:05 AM, Jeff Hume-Pratuch <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> I can't help with the patent question, but I can confirm that Hoomes/Holmes
> (as well as Hume/Home) seem to have been pronounced identically in
> 17th-18th century Virginia (based on a few decades of research on these
> surnames in Virginia court records).
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> (Ms.) Jeff Hume-Pratuch
> Academic Editor
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>> Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2023 16:19:49 -0700
>> From: Arend Flick <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: Early Virginia patent records
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>> Would someone happen to know if there were seventeenth century land patents
>> or grants that simply didn't make it into the patent books or *Cavaliers
>> and Pioneers*? I am befuddled by a very specific reference in T. E.
>> Campbell's book on Caroline County (*Colonial Caroline*), published in
>> 1954, to a grant to a Thomas Hoomes in 1667 for 3000 acres "On a swamp
>> leading into north bank of the Mattapony, below the Lewis grant." There is
>> absolutely no record of this grant in the patent books (that I can find) or
>> in *C & P*. Perhaps Campbell, researching in Caroline in the late 40s or
>> early 50s, had access to some sort of county record (or whatever) that just
>> didn't make it into any of the usual sources? This is not the only large
>> grant he refers to in very specific terms that I simply can't find evidence
>> of elsewhere. (Some confusion, by the way, between "Hoomes" and "Holmes"--a
>> Thomas Holmes did a lot of patenting NE of this area at about the same
>> time.
>>
>> Thanks for any help!
>>
>> Arend Flick
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