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Husband: John COTTON [I20601]
Born: about 1779 in North Carolina 1
Married:
Died: between 02 JUL AND 2 SEP 1850 in Monroe Co., Georgia 2
Father: Cyrus COTTON
Mother: Mildred 'Milly' UNKNOWN
Spouses:
Wife: Margaret T. PICKARD [I20602] 3
Born: about 1782 in Georgia 4
Died: 05 JUN 1872
Father:
Mother:
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John COTTON:

Notes:

(8 yr and 9 mo old 8 Feb 1788 app to be weaver)
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'The Cotton Family of North Carolina', Elba Wesson
Excerpts from the Journal of Rev. James Lawrence Cotton tells how he went to visit a John Cotton in Monroe Co., Georgia to borrow a horse:
"This Mr. Cotten is a son of Cyrus Cotten a brother of my uncle's father. He enlisted in the army in 1799 at about the age of twenty. Was under Col. Hawkins and Gen. Wilkinson. He left the service in 1804. He is a married man but has no children. He is rich. I staid with him last night."
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MONROE CO., WILL BOOK 'B' ( 1848 - 1875)
Cotton, John 7/2/1850 9/2/1850 p 4
wife: Margaret Heirs: Peter Jones and his son, John Dallas Moseley, John C. Jones, son of Peter Jones, John Cotton, dau. of Cyrus Cotton and his wife, Nancy Bailey; Mary Ross, dau. of Cyrus Cotton and wife of William Ross; Mary Williams. dau. of Enoch Green; Caroline Jones, dau. of Peter Jones, Daniel Heisler and William Heisler, sons of Daniel, Sr.; Margaret Heisler, dau. of Daniel Sr.; Sarah Ann Frances Newel, dau. of Luke Newel; Henry Singleton, in tr for niece, Martha Dukes (who is dau. of bro., Daniel Cotton); Luke Newel. Exe. Henry Singleton.

Footnotes
  1. 1850 Monroe Co., GA - US Fed. Census [158].
  2. Will Written / Will Proved [2364].
  3. Named in Husband's Will [1827].
  4. 1850 Monroe Co., GA - US Fed. Census [158].
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