Diana.....you are not alone in looking askance at Mr. Batte in this regard. As recently as 3 years ago some agitated soul was running monthly ads in "The Helper": $100 Reward. For anyone who can help me expose the treacherous falsehoods foisted on the genealogy community BY the Bolling family and its non-connections to Pocahontas. .....or something pretty close to that, I didn't make a copy of it. Why didn't R. Bolling Batte just cinch down that connection via the Bolling people rather than the Poythresses (unless he was trying to do it on both sides of the line). Robertson (who is not without his own problems) made the Bolling connection for him and its my reading that the Bolling side of Robertson was never particularly questioned, it was the Jane Poythress connection that was in mild dispute. And further, even if he believed in "the Jane line" what was Batte doing going down the patrimonial Poythress lines? That wouldn't take him anywhere, would it? I called this one hopeless a while back. If the answer is about to come to light its my guess that a million people want to know it. Maynard