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Husband: Samuel COTTEN, , Jr. [I08194] 1
Born: about 1750 in Northampton Co., North Carolina 2
Married: in Northampton Co., North Carolina 20
Died: 19 JUL 1787 in Edgecombe Co., North Carolina 3
Father: Samuel COTTEN
Mother: Elizabeth UNKNOWN
Spouses:
Wife: Elizabeth EWELL [I08562]
Born: about 1755 in Northampton Co., North Carolina 4
Died: after 1810
Father: Solomon EWELL
Mother: Lydia UNKNOWN
Spouses:
Children
01 (M): Edward COTTEN [I09037] 5
Born: about 1768 in North Carolina
Died: UNKNOWN
Spouses:
02 (M): Alexander COTTEN [I10239] 6
Born: about 1770 in North Carolina
Died: between 12 MAY 1823 AND MAY 1826 in Edgecombe Co., North Carolina 7
Spouses: Temperance STATON; Mary 'Polly' COTTON
03 (F): Nancy COTTEN [I10235] 8
Born: 03 DEC 1772 in North Carolina 9
Died: JUL 1855 in North Carolina 10
Spouses: Jacob BRASWELL, , Sr.
04 (M): Solomon COTTEN [I10236] 11
Born: about 1775 in North Carolina
Died: after 05 MAR 1835 in Henry Co., Tennessee
Spouses: Priscilla Macon HAWKINS
05 (M): Micajah Thomas COTTEN [I08582] 12
Born: DEC 1777 in North Carolina 13
Died: 03 MAY 1834 in Talladega Co., Alabama 14
Spouses: Margaret 'Peggy' SCOTT
06 (M): Willie 'Wiley' COTTEN [I10237] 15
Born: about 1779 in North Carolina
Died: UNKNOWN
Spouses: UNKNOWN
07 (M): Thomas COTTEN [I10263] 16
Born: about 1800 in North Carolina 17
Died: UNKNOWN in 1840 residing in Franklin Co., Alabama
Spouses: Mary COLEMAN
08 (M): Roderick COTTEN [I10238] 18
Born: 16 MAR 1786 in Edgecombe Co., North Carolina
Died: 25 SEP 1815 in Edgecombe Co., North Carolina 19
Spouses: Topping 'Toppin' BRASWELL
Additional Information

Samuel COTTEN, , Jr.:

Notes:

He was a patriot in the Revolutionary War from Edgecombe Co., NC appointed a Patroler 1st Monday in Nov. 1783, Tarborough, Edgecombe Co., NC.
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Burce Cotten = "As We Were"

Samuel Cotten, second son of the above Samuel, located himself in Edgecombe County where he bought a plantation from William Bell in 1786. He became a large planter and was a man of gentility and highly respected. In 1795, at the death of his wife, he divided his estate among his several sons and one daughter and shortly thereafter followed her into the beyond.
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Subject: Note from Bruce Cotten's Genealogy of the Cotten family
Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 09:45:19 -0500
From: "Sally M. Koestler"

Dear Jean and John--these are the notes I have sent to Marla and Pat. I have not worked up the Arthur Cotten notes yet.

Samuel Cotten's descendants
Dear Cousins: This was Bruce's line.
Samuel Cotten came to North Carolina in 1717 and secured land grant. Capt. Northampton Co Guards in 1748 and in the same company were his brothers Arthur, LT. and Thomas, En. Samuel owned land in NH & Bertie Counties. He married twice first unknown and 2nd Lydia Ewell divorced wife of Solomon Ewell of NH county.
Sally Cotten Ewell died in 1789 unmarried.
Roderick Cotten Ewell of Roxobel 1764-1827 in Chatham Co.

Samuel Cotten Jr. married Elizabeth Ewell. Their children were:
1. Edward who had son Edward S Cotten who married in 1847 Penelopy
Hawkins
2. Thomas who married Mary Coleman daughter of Stephen.
3. Willie who removed to Cumberland Co
4. Nancy
5. Micajah Thomas who was in Warren Co, NC in 1810 with wife and daughter under 10
6. Solomon married Prescilla Hawkins daughter of Col. John Hawkins of Warren Co and his wife Sallie Macon. They had Edward R Cotten 1800-1877. "Uncle Ned" was a professional visitor all his life moving from relative to relative. One cold winter evening carrying his "Fiddle" and "Portmanteau" he slipped on the slippery road falling and breaking his hip. Some black people found him lying in the road and proposed that they move him to the nearest house which was the home of the Mosely sisters. Uncle Ned protested firmly, "No! I would rather lie right here in the road than be talked to death by those two old gossips!" They let him stay right where he was and there he died.
7. Roderick more to follow
8. Alexander who died in Edgecombe 1823 who married 1. Temperance Staton and had Arthur Staton Cotten (more) married 2. Mary Cotten daughter of William son of William and they had Mary Elizabeth C. who married Henry Downing of Washington Co.
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(Marla Webb, 1998)
Samuel Cotton born abt. 1750, Northhampton Co. NC died in Edgecombe Co NC. He married Elizabeth Ewell, Northhampton Co. NC. He was a patriot in the Revolutionary War from Edgecombe Co NC appointed a Patroler 1st Monday in Nov 1783, Tarborough Edgecombe Co. NC Samuel and Elizabeth (Ewell) Cotton had children:
1) Edward Cotton
2) Alexander Cotton
3) Nancy Cotton b Dec 3, 1772, married Jacob Braswell
4) Solomon Cotton married Priscilla Macon Hawkins
5) Micajah Thomas Cotton
6) Willie Cotton
7) Roderick Cotton
This was found in DAR Records.

Footnotes
  1. Named in Father's Will [1819].
  2. Daughters of the American Revolution Lineage Books [1326] (Washington, D. C).
  3. Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogy Research System [1325].
  4. Ibid.
  5. Bruce Cotten, The Cotten Family of North Carolina [1194] (1929).
  6. Ibid.
  7. Ibid.
  8. Ibid.
  9. Revolutionary War Pension Claims [2056].
  10. Revolutionary War Pension Record [2060].
  11. Bruce Cotten, The Cotten Family of North Carolina [1194] (1929).
  12. Ibid.
  13. 1810 Warren Co., NC - US Fed. Census [14].
  14. Tombstone Inscription [2195].
  15. Bruce Cotten, The Cotten Family of North Carolina [1194] (1929).
  16. Ibid.
  17. 1840 Franklin Co., AL - US Fed. Census [36].
  18. Bruce Cotten, The Cotten Family of North Carolina [1194] (1929).
  19. The Tarboro Society for Genealogy and Biography-"Compiled by the Ladies' Tarboro, NC Genealogy and Library Association for the Preservation, Dissemination and Exultation of the History of Edgecombe Co., NC, Early Families of Edgecombe Co., NC, Its Past and Present [2186] (1881 (with an appendix added in 1920)).
  20. Daughters of the American Revolution Lineage Books [1326] (Washington, D. C).
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