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).

(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.
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> Thanks for any help!
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> Arend Flick
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