ANDREW MOCK  and  MOCKSVILLE,  North Carolina
                                                               by Steve Lapp

  From the book DAVIE COUNTY (NC), by James W. Wall in 1976, page 98:

             "Mocksville may have been a village at the time of the Revolutionary War.
 First called Mocks Old Field, it is believed to have been named for Andrew Mock,
who evidently owned part of the land on which the town was built. Rowan (County)
deed records identify the village by this name, and the Mocks Old Field Post
 Office was established in 1810. Some facts about the town prior to the
formation of Davie County in 1836 areknown from deeds, tax lists, wills, voter
registrations, and Rowan court records, but these are sparse and for the most part unrelated."

-------- In 1899 the local paper began a description of Mocksville: "One of the healthiest towns in
western North Carolina--a quiet town situated on the North Carolina Midland Railroad 27 miles
from Winston-Salem and 50 miles from Charlotte--Population 700."

     Andrew Mauck  settled in North Carolina for a short time
 after the revolutionary war before moving on to Tennessee around 1800.
 He was the son of Peter Mauck from the Shenandoah Valley.
 Now - after brief review of my Andrew Mauk article in the Summer 1993
 MOCK FAMILY HISTORIAN, I find JoWhite Linn's Rowan County NC Deed Abstract
 as follows:    Dec.30, 1785 transfer of 250 acres on Bear Creek from
               Gasper Sein to Andrew MOCK for 50 Lbs.

Bear Creek runs right past Mocksville NC, and Heidelberg Church was one
 of the first in Mocksville and vicinity. Andreas and Elizabeth Mock
 baptised at least three children there in the early 1790s. In addition to the two daughters
identified in my Summer 1993 MFH article, there is also a baptismal record from Heidelberg
Church for a son:
                            "Johannes MACK, born June 29, 1793, bapt. Sept.15, 1793.
                                Parents and sponsors : Andreas Mack and wife Elizabeth."

This Andreas and Elizabeth are definitely the MOCKs who moved to Tennessee
and are related to Peter of Shenandoah Valley.  SO - it appears that MOCKSVILLE, North
Carolina, is named after this Andrew Mauk/Mock, son of Peter and brother of Henry.
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             In response to my inquiry to Doris B. Frye, History Room Librarian at Davie County
Public Library, 371 North Main Street, Mocksville,NC 27028,  I received the following:
SAIN FAMILY HISTORY, by Charles H. Sain, as presented at Laurel Hill Methodist Church -
Sept. 12, 1976 (Only cover, introduction, and  page three were sent.)  Quoted from page three:
"Casper Sain married Rosanna Mocke.  He was born in 1730's, in the Palatinate
 and died between 1810 and 1820.  Lived in Pennsylvania and Rowan County, NC.
 They had nine children (listed)."
     (The first child, John, was "born about 1760, married Elizabeth Huff.")
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On Jan. 26, 1994, I  spoke with Mr. Charles Sain by phone at his home in Birmingham, AL.  He
does not have documentation on hand to confirm that Rosanna Mocke was indeed the wife of
Casper Sain, but he believes that information is available at the Davie County Library.   He did
state that Casper Sain arrived in America aboard the ship Dragon on  Sept. 26, 1749.  We can
only speculate as to what relationship this Rosanna Mocke is to Andrew Mock.