U.S. Compiled Service Records, Post-Revolutionary War Volunteer Soldiers, 1784-1811
Name: Young Cotton
State or Territory: United States, Military unit: First U.S. Regiment (Harmar), 1785-90
Service Year: 1785

1790 Edgecombe, Halifax Co., NC (Listed Twice)
Page 467, Young Cotten - no entries (Theophilus Cotten also on this page)
Page 483, Young Cotten, Males: 16 & upwards=1 (no other entries)

Christian Co., KY Tax lists 1797-1798-1799 by Don Simmons.
1797--No Cotton
1798
Young Cotton 1 male over 21
Wm. Cotton 1m over 21, 2 blacks over 16
1799
Dist. 1
No Cotton
Dist. 2 ..that part being Livingston
Young Cotton 1m
John Cotton 1m, 1h
1800
Young Cotton 1m
John Cotton 1m
1801 Book 1
1801 Book 2, South
John Cotton 1m, 2h
Young Cotton 1m, 1h
1802
Young Cotton 1m
John Cotton 1m, 1m 16-20,1h, 357a Little River
1803
John Cotton 1m, 1m 16-20,1h
No Young Cotton
1805 Tax list
John Cotten - 1 male 21 or over, 2 males 16 to 20, no slaves, 2 horses or cows, 150 acres

1806 Tax list
John Cotten - 1 male 21 or over, 0 males 16 to 20, no slaves, 1 horse or cow, 0 acres
Benjamin Cotten - 1 male 21 or over, 0 males 16 to 20, no slaves, 2 horses or cows, 0 acres
John Cotten - 1 male 21 or over, 0 males 16 to 20, no slaves, 2 horses or cows, 100 acres
(Benjamin and the first John are listed together, the other John was one page over)

Livingston Co., KY Tax Lists 1800-1801-1802 by Don Simmons
No Young Cotton

"Benjamin Cotten became a land owner in 1806, on land surveyed by a John Cotton, located on Little River. JOHN and YOUNG COTTON had land together on Little River from 1798, as did a William and Thomas Cotton. Benjamin Cotten remained on the Tax Records of Christian County, KY from 1806 through 1809, at which time it is supposed he removed to Gallatin County, IL, where the family remained at least through 1817, when their son Thomas Wadlington Cotten was born." (Cotten Picking pg. 6).

1810 Logan Co., KY
Young Cotton: Males: 16-26=1, 45 & over=1, Females: 26-44=1

1820 Sumner Co., TN
Young Cotton, Males 45 & over=1, Females: 10-16=1, 16-26=1
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Genealogical Records: Early Tennessee Settlers, 1700s-1900s
Tennessee Soldiers in the Revolution, Index to Revolutionary Soldiers, Page 17
Cotton, Young, I-30-2: V-106-2