I would like some help from you Poythress scholars. Despite the ring of conviction (hedged with "tentatively" at the end) in the following write-up, the index cards do not reflect the marriage of James Cocke to Elizabeth 211 11. See other references to Mr. Cocke as marrying Elizabeth Poythress, granddaughter of John Poythress (BF) and Mary Batte [Batte 142]. [I will provide if anyone is interested.] Perhaps John was nicknamed "Joshua"? Write-up with Trial Chart of the Descendants of Francis Poythress Prepared April 1977 by R. Bolling Batte found in Virginia State Library, Archives Division Accession Number 29493 transcribed by Maynard (on the web site.) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~poythress/batte.html 211 11 Elizabeth Poythress Shown as a child of Joshua and Elizabeth (Robertson) Poythress in the notes on the Robertson family made by Gov. Wyndham Robertson. Elizabeth (Robertson) Poythress was the governor’s aunt. He certainly would have had personal knowledge of her children. Several printed accounts of the Cocke and Poythress families state that James Cocke, son of Benjamin, married Elizabeth Poythress, daughter of Joshua, without identifying the Joshua, and that they had a daughter Elizabeth Cocke who married Jacob Hoffman. As to this last couple there can be no doubt. In 1955 I ran across a monument in the cemetery in Leesburg inscribed: "In memory of Jacob Hoffman/and his wife/ Elizabeth Cocke/and their children/erected by their grand-daughter/1928." If the mother of this Elizabeth Cocke had indeed been the daughter of any Joshua Poythress at all she would have to have been the daughter of Joshua 211 1. She could not possibly been the daughter of Joshua 211 and Mary Short, for their daughter Elizabeth (as we shall see later) married Simon Fraser in 1775. Elizabeth Poythress who married James Cocke is said to have died in 1800. Tentatively I place her here."