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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Joshua Poythress: Birth: 1720 in VA [(P-1) BAA]. Death: BEF. 1782 in Prince Georges Co. VA

  2. Elizabeth Poythress: Birth: 1725 in VA [(P-1) BAE] [no issue]. Death: 1795

  3. Mary Poythress: Birth: in VA [(P-1)BAF]. Death: 25 JAN 1792 in "High Peak" Prince Georges County, VA


Sources
1. Title:   LVA
Page:   Poythress, Cards 92-96
Author:   RBB
2. Title:   Chart of the Poythress Family of Virginia, Section A of two Sections, Robert Bolling Batte, April 26, 1977, "
Author:   R. Bolling Batte
Publication:   Chart and writeup on Poythress family at the State Library of Virginia Accession Number 29493

Notes
a. Note:   Joshua Poythress 21 or BA
  Writeup with Trial Chart of the Descendants of Francis Poythress PreparedApril 1977 by R. Bol ling Batte found in Virginia State Library, ArchivesDivision Accession Number 29493 transcrib ed by J.M.Poythress: ( -1740), m. ______. The name of the wife of this Joshua has never beenproved. The fact tha t one of his sons was named "Littlebury" suggeststhat she may have been an Eppes or a Hardyma n. In 1725 John Hardyman,whose mother had been Mary Eppes 124, and whose grandmother had been Elizabeth Littlebury, conveyed to "Joseph" Poythress 300 acres, part ofthe Flowerdew Hundre d Tract in Prince George. The consideration expressedwas 5 shillings, which means that it wa s a deed of gift. John Hardymanhad actually paid 600 pounds lawful money of England for 150 o f the same300 acres he was now giving away. The "Joseph" named as grantee in thedeed was cert ainly an error in transliteration. Joshua was intended, not"Joseph". This will be clear late r when Joshuas grandson William (211 2)sells the same land to Peachy 65 years later. Why sho uld John Hardymangive valuable land away to Joshua Poythress? A most likely answer wouldbe th at a Joshua Poythress had married a close relative of John Hardyman,a daughter or a sister. B y 1725 John and Henrietta Maria Hardyman wouldhardly have a daughter old enough to marry. H e had sisters, however.Their names do not appear in any known record but their existance ises tablished by the 1726 will of Littlebury Hardeman, brother of John,which leaves one shillin g "to each and every one of my brothers andsisters." These circumstances, plus the existanc e of a Hardyman Poythressin Prince George, bolster a growing suspicion that the wife of Joshu aPoythress was a daughter of John Hardyman, Sr. and Mary Eppes, his wife,and thus a grandaugh ter of Francis and Elizabeth(Littlebury-Worsham)Epes. Hardyman Poythress, as yet unidentified , in 1809, may have been agrandson of Joshua Poythress. Joshua left a will dated January 17 1 739(o. s.) in which he leaves property to his wife (but inconsideratelyfails to name her), an d to three sons,three daughters, brothers William,Robert, and others.. The original will is n ow in the archives of theVirginia State Library (Accession 23849


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