Florida Land Records Record
Name: LOFTERN COTTEN
Land Office: TALLAHASSEE
Sequence #: 1, Document Number: 4362, Total Acres: 40.15, Signature: Y
Canceled Document: No, Issue Date: October 2, 1835
Act or Treaty: April 24, 1820, Multiple Patentee Names: No
Entry Classification: Sale-Cash Entries
Land Description: 1 NWNW Tallahassee No 2 N 28 W 13
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Florida Census, 1820-90
Name: Loften Cotton, State: FL, County: Florida County (West)
Township: No Township Given, Year: 1821
Record Type: Petitioner's List, Database: FL Early Census Index v.2
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1830 Escambia Co., FL
Loften Cotton
Males: 1, 1, 1, -, 1, 1 Females: 1, 1, -, -, 1

1840 Covington Co., AL
Loften Cotten
Males: 3, 1, 1, 1, -, 1 Females: 1, -, 1, 1, -, 1
(Note: Willaim Hart was also residing in Covington Co., AL in 1830 & 1840. By 1860 he and his wife had moved to Hardin Co., Texas. His daughters, Mary Almira Hart b. abt 1838, AL, married West Florida Cotton, 1852, in Jefferson Co., Texas and Elizabeth Granberry Hart, b.abt. 1829, AL, married John Fletcher Cotton, before 1844 in Escambia, FL)

1850 Santa Rosa Co., FL - US Fed. Census
Page 232, 2nd Division, Enumerated: 18th October, 1850
Dwelling #174, Family #174
Loftin Cotten, age 52, W, M, Lawyer, $1500, b. S. C.
Edy - , age 54, b. S. C.
Columbus - , age 24, M, Laborer, b. Florida
Bruce - , age 22, b. Florida
Sylvester - age 17, M, b. Alabama
Mason - , age 15, M, b. Florida
Augustus - age 13, M, b. "
Minerva - age 12, F, b. "
William - , age 10 M, b. "
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https://sites.google.com/a/flgenweb.net/santarosa/cemeteries/milton
MILTON CEMETERY, Milton, Santa Rosa County, Florida
COTTEN, Columbus, b. Feb 9 1824 d. Oct 11 1853, s/s Edith Journagan Cotton
COTTEN, Doris Lillian, b. Jan 26 1953 d. Jan 31 1953, s/s Estelle C. Cotten
COTTEN, Edith Journagan, b. 1796 South Carolina d. 1855 Fla., s/s Columbus Cotten
COTTEN, Estelle C., b. Apr 26 1917 d. Nov 4 1999, Ss/w Rachel L. Cotten
COTTEN, Jackson Augustus, d. Oct 27 1852, Aged 17 years 7 months & 27 days, s/s Columbus Cotten
COTTEN, Loften, b. 1798 South Carolina d. 1855 Fla., s/s Edith Journagan Cotten
COTTEN, Rachel L., b. Aug 12 1916 d. Sep 26 1981, Ss/w Estelle C. Cotten
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•Brewer's History of Alabama, p. 104.
HISTORY OF CONECUH. 51, FORT CRAWFORD,
now in Escambia county, was one of the points earliest settled in Conecuh. It derived its name from an officer in Jackson's command. Benjamin Jernigan seems to have been the first to pitch his tent in this region. He settled within two and a half miles of where Fort Crawford subsequently stood, and on the west side of Burnt Corn creek, within three-quarters of a mile of the present site of Brewton. This was in the latter part of 1816, or early in 1817. Not more than two or three settlements had been made in the county at that time.
Soon after Mr.. Jernigan came here, he was joined by James Thomson, Benjamin Brewton, R. J. Cook, Lofton and Loddy Cotten. At this time the fort was occupied by the Seventh Georgia Regiment. General Jackson was in the habit of visiting the home of Benjamin Jernigan—the father of the venerable William Jernigan, now a resident of Pollard.

William W. Harrison, son-in-law, was Adminisrator of his estate.