Alexander COTTEN & Mary 'Polly' COTTON

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Husband: Alexander COTTEN [I10239] ¹

Born: about 1770 in North Carolina
Married: after 1804
Died: between 12 MAY 1823 AND MAY 1826 in Edgecombe Co., North Carolina ²
Father: Samuel COTTEN, , Jr.
Mother: Elizabeth EWELL
Spouses: Temperance STATON

Wife: Mary 'Polly' COTTON [I08351] ³

Born: in Edgecombe Co., North Carolina ⁴
Died: before 1823
Father: William COTTEN, , Jr.
Mother: Elizabeth WILLS
Spouses:

Children

01 (F): Mary Elizabeth COTTEN [I10272]
Born: 05 AUG 1820 in Edgecombe Co., North Carolina
Died: 29 OCT 1867 in Buried Roper, Washington Co., North Carolina ⁵
Spouses: Henry 'Harry' DOWNING

Additional Information

Alexander COTTEN:

Notes:

Edgecombe County Will Abstracts 1824-1857 (Vol. III)

Alexander Cotten 12 May 1823 May Court 1826 book F pg. 56 Daughter Mary Elizabeth Cotten - all my perishable estate to which I am entitled by the will of Frederick Cotten, also Negroes Moses, Solomon, Nelson and Susana. Son Arthur Staten Cotten - forty shillings. Surplus of estate to be divided between my two said children. Executors: friends Randolph Cotten and Spencer D. Cotten
Witness: Spier W. Coffield, Thomas Lyon
(Probate indicates that Spier W. Coffield was deceased and Gresham C. Pitman swore to his handwriting.)

Footnotes

Bruce Cotten, The Cotten Family of North Carolina [1194] (1929).
Ibid.
Ibid.
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)).
Headstone Inscription [1491].

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