Walter COTTON & Elizabeth UNKNOWN

Baptised: 01 MAY 1643, Wolverhampton, co. Stafford, Registers [41.85] ⁴

Land Patent: 20 OCT 1688, Walter Cotton and Thomas Cotton were granted a patent for 314 acres in the upper parish of Surry County for the transportation of seven persons [VA Patents 7:670]

Land Patent: 16 JUL 1696, "While no record seems to have been made of it, we know that this land was at some point, on 16 July 1696, divided into two equal parts" ref. Dr. Thompson research for Hikaru Kitabayashi

Land Patent: 03 NOV 1702, Walter Cotton of Southwark Parish sold his 157 acres for 1000 lbs. tobacco and 100 lbs. pork to one John Johnson of the same parish ; he signed by mark, his wife Elizabeth signed her name [Surry Co., Wills & Deeds 5;271, acknowledged and recorded same da

Court Records: 01 MAR 1692, Walter & Thomas Cotten served on a petit jury [Surry Co. Court Orders 5:32, 6:167]

Court Records: 15 AUG 1711, Walter Cotten had judgment against William Cook, admin. c.t.a. of the will of John Cook, for 20 shillings [Surry Co. Court Orders 6:167]

Ref. Dr. Thompson research for Hikaru Kitabayashi (with Hikaru's permission to post)
"No estate record is found for Walter or Elizabeth Cotten/Cotton, and there is a gap in Surry county court orders from 16 July 1718 to 16 December 1741 which might conceal more information about them. That neither is named as alive in the will of Thomas Cotten might indicate that they were dead by the time that will was made in February 1718/19."

Hikaru Kitabayashi Data <hkitabayashi@yahoo.com> [1498].
Wolverhampton, co. Stafford Registers (ENG) [2382].
1 May 1643 Walter son of William Cotton baptized [41.85]
England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database FamilySearch [1400].
Wolverhampton, co. Stafford Registers (ENG) [2382].
Surry Co., VA Wills & Deeds [2128].
Edited by; Arlee Cotton Holleman, The Cotten Clan; The Ancestry of Thomas Cotton and His Descendants 1674-1984 [1388].
Will Proved [2362].
Sussex Co., VA Wills [2129].