Early Patent Myth

Book, Chesterfield, an old Virginia county, by Francis Earle Lutz, 1954.

Many more prominent families were established in Chesterfield at this period of her history. The Eppes family, which for several generations provided the county with military and civil officers, had held large grants of Chesterfield land across from City Point as early as 1635. Robert Elam around 1642 patented lands about Bermuda Hundred between the holdings of Thomas Sheppy and Richard Johnson. Nicholas Perkins in 1650 received another patent in the Bermuda Hundred section. Other settlers around this period included Francis Redford, in 1659, and John Puckett, John Burton and Abraham and William Womack, in 1665.

Henrico County, Virginia: Beginnings of Its Families: Part I

William Clayton Torrence

The William and Mary Quarterly

Vol. 24, No. 2 (Oct., 1915), pp. 116-142 (27 pages)

https://www.jstor.org/stable/1914991

p.141

Vague Womack references:

Ref. CDXVII Century Applic. on William Womack b 1620 Eng/Va. in 1657.
William Womack on tithing list of Henrico Co., Va. in 1679.
Va. Rec. Bk. 1677-92 pp. 492, 716, 762. Va. State Library. Also "Rand, Hale & Allied Families" by Nettie Hale Rand, 1940.
Other references: Valentine Papers pp. 1772, 1774.
William & Mary College Quarterly V-24 p. 208.
Virginia Historical Magazine, Minutes of the Council and General Court of Colonial Virginia p 369.
Chesterfield Co. Va. p. 48 by Lutz.

Henrico County, Virginia: Beginnings of Its Families: Part II, William Clayton Torrence

The William and Mary Quarterly

Vol. 24, No. 3 (Jan., 1916), pp. 202-210 (9 pages)

https://www.jstor.org/stable/1915131

p.208 - A footnote with the approximate birth year of several persons from Henrico County court depositions, including Abraham Womack, 1644.