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Husband: Joab 'Cotton' COTTEN [I11113]
Born: 30 SEP 1747 in Northampton Co., North Carolina
Married:
Died: between 18 AUG 1795 AND FEB 1796 in Halifax Co., North Carolina 1
Father: John 'Cotton' COTTEN
Mother: Mary WHITMELL
Spouses:
Wife: Anna WILSON [I11114] 2
Born:
Died: UNKNOWN
Father:
Mother:
Spouses:
Children
01 (F): Elizabeth COTTON [I11127]
Born: about 1776 in Northampton Co., North Carolina
Died: UNKNOWN
Spouses: Josiah NELMS
02 (M): Whitmel 'Capt.' COTTON [I11115]
Born: about 1778 in Northampton Co., North Carolina
Died: 29 MAR 1831 in Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., North Carolina 3
Spouses: Mary 'Polly' FOREMAN
03 (F): Mary COTTON [I11125]
Born: about 1780 in Northampton Co., North Carolina
Died: UNKNOWN
Spouses:
04 (M): John COTTON [I11118]
Born: between 1780 AND 1790 in Halifax Co., North Carolina
Died: 1836 in Arkansas 4
Spouses: Sarah Easter NELSON
05 (M): James Wilson COTTON [I11121] 5
Born: between 1780 AND 1790 in Halifax Co., North Carolina 6
Died: between 23 MAY AND AUG 1865 in died single, Halifax Co., North Carolina 7
Spouses:
06 (M): Josiah 'Joseph' COTTON [I11122]
Born: between 1780 AND 1790 in Halifax Co., North Carolina 8 9
Died: 26 JAN 1842 in Shelby Co., Tennessee 10
Spouses: Elizabeth Hunter HARRIS
07 (M): Robert W. COTTON [I11123]
Born: between 1780 AND 1790 in Halifax Co., North Carolina 11
Died: 12 NOV 1836 in LaGrange, Fayette Co., Tennessee 12
Spouses: Mary Norfleet JEFFREYS
08 (F): Dorothy 'Dolly' M. COTTON [I11126]
Born: about 1783 in Halifax Co., North Carolina
Died: between FEB AND AUG 1849 in died single, Halifax Co., North Carolina 13
Spouses:
Additional Information

Joab 'Cotton' COTTEN:

Notes:

From Geneological Abstracts of Wills 1758-1824 Halifax Country, N. C.
Will # 539, page 261. Joab Cotton 18 August 1795 February Court 1796

Son Whitmill Cotton, negroes, etc and the land ajoining Smith's mill swamp, Josiah Nelms and Dominic Nelms which said land I bought of William Scott and Rasor Tippet, and if he dies under 21 the said property to go to my son Josiah Cotton. Negroes, etc. and the land in Scotland Neck which I bought of Richard Bennet when he is 21. Son James Cotton, negroes, etc and the land adjoining William Baker and if he dies under 21 the same to go to my son John Cotton, son Robert Cotton the land in Edgecombe Co. Which I bought of Daniel Woodard when he is 21 daughter Elizabeth Nelms, Mary Cotton and Dorothy Cotton, negroes, lend wife Anna Cotton negroes, etc and land to raise my small children (names not given).

Witness: Benjamin Joyner, Josiah Nelms and Willie Wilson
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nelmstnms/N.Carolina/Nelms%20Info%20(NC).htm

(05) James Wilson COTTON:

Residence: 1850, Halifax Co., NC (Census states he was b. in Halifax)

Notes:

Home in 1860: Eastern Division, Halifax, North Carolina
438, 430
James W Cotton, M/W, age 64, Farmer, $31,800, $18,200, Halifax, NC (179
W B Brew, M/W, age 18, Farm Laborer, Halifax, NC
439, 431
Sally Tootle, F/Mu., age 27, Day Laborer, Halifax, NC
General Tootle, M/Mu., age 12, Halifax, NC
Frank Tootle, M/Mu., age 9, Halifax, NC
Joseph Tootle, M/Mu., age 8, Halifax, NC
Anna Tootle, F/Mu., age 2, Halifax, NC
440, 432
Kasiahe (?) Tootle, F/Mu., age 18, Day Laborer, Halifax, NC
William Tootle, M/Mu., age 14, Halifax, NC
John Tootle, M/Mu., age 12, Halifax, NC
Dolphin Tootle, M/Mu., age 8, Halifax, NC
Eliza Tootle, F/Mu., age 4, Halifax, NC
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James W. Cotton (5/129) 23 May 1865 Aug Court 1865
To Ann W. Steptoe - $300. to Virginia, Martha, and Georgiana ( children of Ann W. Steptoe) -$200 each. To Sally, William, Dolphin and Eliza Tootle - the part of my Cypress Swamp land down to the Mill Swamp on the road to Norfleet Ferry. To Sally Tootle (daughter of Charity Tootle) - land where I live containing 8 acres. To Martha and Keziah (daughters of Charity Tootle) - land on Dannie (?) Branch containing 75 acres. Balance of estate to my nephew Benjamin W. Cotton provided he pay my legacies and also $1000 to William N. Steptoe.

Ex. Friend Richard H. Smith
Wit. William Fenner, H.A. Gillium
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(Note: See above census for the 'Tootle's' that James named in his will)

Footnotes
  1. Will Written / Will Proved [2364].
  2. Bruce Cotten, The Cotten Family of North Carolina [1194] (1929).
  3. 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)).
  4. Bruce Cotten, The Cotten Family of North Carolina [1194] (1929).
  5. Names in Sister's Will [1840].
  6. 1850 Halifax Co., NC - US Fed. Census [109].
  7. Will [2358].
  8. 1840 Shelby Co., TN - US Fed. Census [42].
  9. 1830 Fayette Co., TN - US Fed. Census [25].
  10. Obituary [1952].
  11. 1830 Fayette Co., TN - US Fed. Census [25].
  12. Bruce Cotten, The Cotten Family of North Carolina [1194] (1929).
  13. Will [2358].
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