Don't know this will help at all in the "Who was John's Elizabeth?" search but I ran across this when doing filing. "Elizabeth Bradshaw and Francis Reeves witnessed a deed on 1 April, 1698. It was a mortgage by Edward and Mary (Fields) Jones "for 5600 lbs tob made over to John Pleasants, 180 acs, part of land which was their brother Fields' by deed of mortgage, 4 April 1694. Mortgage has not been paid, and Pleasants sells sd land to Gilly Groomarrin for 500 lbs tob reserving mineral rights." [Deeds 1697- 1704, p. 73 ]. Elizabeth and Jane Pleasants witnessed John Pleasants' will on 1 June 1698 [Henrico Deeds 1677-1705, p. 104]. Elizabeth would have to have been of legal age to witness the mortgage. Women had to be 14 to inherit property, men 21. Another part of the article had the following: "John Bradshaw Sr. apparently died between 1696 and 1711. In 1711 Arthur Markham and wife Elizabeth sued Jane Bayley for illegally detaining an unnamed son of Elizabeth as a servant. (orders p. 80) Elizabeth Marcum (Markham) "mother of Benjamin Bradshaw" sued William Ballew (Ballowe) over the way Ballew was treating Benjamin, then his servant or worker. ... In 1747 Benjamin provided security for Judith, widow of William Bradshaw, and he witnessed Larner's will in 1750;. In 1714, John Giles sued William and John Bradshaw in Henrico County, 4 October 1714. (Minutes 1710-1714, p. 66) (The case was dismissed.)" Don't know that this added anything more than confusion but for what it is worth. The information above is from an article in my files - not my research. It is an exceptional article, well documented and the deductions make sense even to me. I am sorry that I don't have a reference to the author so cannot obtain the author's permission to post the entire article, only those parts for which there is a document referenced.