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Elizabeth Cocke (Hill)

Also Known As: "Elizabeth (Hill) [Carter] Cocke", "widow Elizabeth Carter; Elizabeth Cocke"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Shirley Plantation (north of the James River), Charles City County, Province of Virginia, Colonial America
Death: 1771 (67-68)
Shirley Plantation (north of the James River), Charles City County, Province of Virginia, Colonial America
Place of Burial: Charles City County, Virginia, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Edward Hill, of Charles City County and Elizabeth Hill
Wife of Bowler Cocke and John Carter
Mother of Mary Head; Elizabeth Hill Byrd; Charles Carter of ‘Shirley’; Edward Carter; Elijah Carter, Jr. and 3 others
Sister of Henrietta Maria Taylor; Elizabeth Hill; Sara Hill; Edward Hill, IV and Martha Giffard

Managed by: Christopher Gordon Totsky
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About Elizabeth Cocke

One of the pictures is of her mother and you can verify this at https://colonialvirginiaportraits.org/portrait/elizabeth-hill-d-1771/

Birth: 1703 Shirley Charles City County Virginia, USA Death: 1771

LDS gives birthdate as 1708

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Spouses:
 John Carter (1690 - 1742)
 Browler Cocke

Johh Armistead Carter Married 3 Nov 1723 to Elizabeth Hill when the Shirley mansion construction was began as a gift from King Carter and was finished in 1738. John Carter died 31 July 1742. Elizabeth remarried to Browler Cocke and the plantation was inherited by Charles Carter, son of John and Elizabeth Carter at the time of Elizabeth's death in 1773.

Children:
 Elizabeth Hill Carter Byrd (1731 - 1760)*
 Charles Carter (1732 - 1806)*
 Edward Hill Carter (1733 - 1797)*
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Burial: Shirley Plantation Shirley Charles City County Virginia, USA


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Elizabeth Cocke's Timeline

1703
1703
Shirley Plantation (north of the James River), Charles City County, Province of Virginia, Colonial America
1725
1725
Culpeper, Virginia, United States
1731
October 13, 1731
Shirley Plantation, Charles City, Virginia
1732
October 15, 1732
probably at ‘Shirley’, Charles City County, Province of Virginia, Colonial America
1739
1739
SHIRLEY PLANTATION, Charles City County, Virginia, United States
1740
1740
1742
1742
1771
1771
Age 68
Shirley Plantation (north of the James River), Charles City County, Province of Virginia, Colonial America