From Cotton Mailing List at Rootsweb
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 12:25:49 -0600

I'm new to the list. I'm researching the family of Lemuel Cotton. He died
in 1801 in Jefferson County, Mississippi. His wife was Abigail Dickerso
His children were Mary "Polly", Nancy, John, James, and Thomas. They all
lived in the Claiborne, Jefferson, and Amite County areas of Mississipp
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Denice Lipscomb
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Subject: [COTTON-L] Sumner Co. Lemuel Cotton
Mon, 6 Mar 2000
Hello,
Does anyone have any information concerning the parents or siblings of
Lemuel Cotton? I have his children's information, and his will, but wou
like to trace him. I found the following notations in the Sumner County,
Tennessee County Court Minutes Vol.III 1796-1802:

Page 173: Ordered that Reuben Douglass, William Brigance, William Mc Adams,
LEMUEL COTTON, & John Josey be appointed as a Jury to view, lay off & mark
the road ordered to be laid off so as to leave out the place where Robe
Looney is now erecting a mill and also the place where he intends to dig the
Race.

Page 191: Deed from LEMUEL COTTON to Absolam Hall for 75 acres of land was duly acknowledged.

Page 204: Deed from Samuel Gragg to LEMUEL COTTON for 200 acres of land was proved by Griswold Latimer.

Records of Sumner County, County Court Minutes Vol. IV 1801-1804
A Power or letter of attorney Abagail McCrary & John Smith Executrix & Executor of LEMUEL COTTON decd to James Cryer authorizing & empowering the said Cryer to execute a deed to a certain tract or parcel of land the right & title of which was vested in the said Cotton at the time of his death which land is situated in the county of Sumner on Station Camp Creek, & was exhibited in court & admitted to record upon the certificate of Cato West
Governor of the Mississippi Territory Pro. Tam. with his seal of office annexed thereto certifying that Zachariah Kirkland before whom the said letter of attorney was acknowledged was at that time an acting Justice of t
peace for Jefferson County in the said Territory.

Deed from Abba McCray & John Smith, Executrix & Executor of the last will & testament of LEMUEL COTTON decd by James Cryer their attorney in fact to John Franklin for 125 acres of land was duly acknowledged by the said James Cryer, Attorney in fact as aforesaid & thereupon ordered to be certified for registration.
(spelling variations from book)
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Sumner County, Tennessee: Land Records: Vol. 3: 1800-1805
Reference: Sumner County: Register of Deeds: Deeds: Roll
#108: volume: 1,A,,2-3: Date: Aug 1739-Oct 1805:
897 Cotton John indenture
1101 Cotton Lemuel(decd) indenture
341 Cotton Levy deed
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Mississippi Census, 1805-90
Name: Lamuel Cotton
State: MS, County: Mississippi Territory
Township: Petitioners, Year: 1800
Page: 114, Database: MS Early Census Index
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From Nancy Neville Cordell, 04/11/11
Mississippi Territory}
} By John Girault, Judge of Probate for the said County.
County of Pickering }

Whereas Lemuel Cotton, late of this County, did constitute and appoint Abigail Cotton, Executrix, John Smith & John Girault Executors of his last Will and Testament, and the same having been duly proven before me, filed and recorded in this Office, and the said Executrix and Executors legally sworn. To the intent that the said last Will and Testament may be well and truly executed, I have and hereby do, by virtue of the power bested in me by the Probate Law of this Territory, give, grant and commit unto the said Abigail Cotton, John Smith and John Girault; the Administration of all and singular the Estate of the said deceased, with full power unto them, to dispose thereof agreeable to the tenor of the said Will and according to the true intent and meaning of the Testator. And the said Executors and Executrix are hereby required to file in this Office, within three months from the date hereof, a true and perfect inventory of the said deceased’s estate; and to render a just and full account of their administration, whenever thereunto legally required. In testimony whereof I have undersigned my name and hereunto affixed my seal, at the Probate Office this twentieth day of April A.D. Eighteen hundred and one.

J. Girault
J.P.

Mississippi Genealogy
Port Gibson, Claiborne County, Mississippi, 1891
The first fire company in Port Gibson, so far as known, was a chartered organization incorporated by an act of the legislature passed January 26, 1821. The charter members were as follows: Amos Whiting, James Burbridge, Harvey Bradford, James Hughes, Orran Faulk, Tobias Gibson, Horace Carpenter, Cornelius Haring, John H. Esty, Benjamin Shields, George Lake. Alfred Faulk, A. G. Cage, W. R. McAlpine, Thomas Cotton, John L. Buck, Fieldner Offutt, James Maxwell, Joseph Briggs, David D. Downing.

Thomas Cotten
Death: Apr. 25, 1831
Stone says: "died at Belmont...@@ 36 Y's 3 Mo. & 19 D's"
Burial: Wintergreen Cemetery, Port Gibson, Claiborne County, Mississippi, USA, Plot: Section C, Lot 47