Robert COTTON
THE STOCKTON FAMILY OF NJ, DR.T.C. STOCKTON, 1911, APPENDIX, PG 284; LIVED SEDALIA, MO D.A.R. #322677; Adelaide Richardson (Mrs. George Lamb Buist) MABELLE ISHAM, 21990 15 MILE RD., BELLEVUE, MI 49021; SL WINTER 97 RUTH SETTERQUIST, 1318 SHELBY DR., FAIRFIELD, CA 94533, 10/90; 10/98 CENSUS: 1820 Shenango Twp, Crawford Co, PA CENSUS: 1830; 1840 Fallowfield Twp, Crawford Co, PA BIRTH: Family Rec's of Charles Burns, Temple Hill, MD (b 1788) BIRTH-MARRIAGE-DEATH: DAR Supp App Nat #568111 John Cotton BIRTH-MARRIAGE-DEATH-BURIAL: "McGinness & Scott Families & Their Branches" S. W. McGinness, 1891, Pg 82, 83 (Capt Robert Cotton purchased the McGinness Homestead in Shenango Twp, Crawford Co, PA in 1817; more in ref & on McGinness line) BIRTH-DEATH-BURIAL: CCHS Cem Index Card File BIRTH-MARRIAGE-DEATH-BURIAL: Espyville Cem Index, CCHS (d 21 May 1848, age 61 wife Martha) BIRTH-MARRIAGE-DEATH-BURIAL: "Descendants of Henry Cotton", Revised by Roger A Johnson, 1994, Pgs 12,13 (more in ref) DEATH: Crawford Democrat, 27 May 1848; Democratic Whig Journal, 6 JUN 1848 DEATH-PROBATE: Crawford Co Wills, Vol B, Pg 305 (Will of Robert Cotton) NOTE: From 1885 Crawford Co History, Pg 544: Robert Cotton and James McConnell built the first griest and saw mill in Twp about 1 1/2 miles east of Hartstown, a log structure (no date) NOTE: From CCHS Newspaper Index Card File (Robert Cotton was collector for stewart, 13 May 1815; mentioned in letter to voters, 2 Oct 1828; re: doings at Conneaut Lake, 22 Sep 1832; to the electors, 29 Sep 1832; letter to Mr. Kennedy 4 Oct 1833; candidate for assembly, 22 Aug 1835) NOTE: Trapani Papers, CCHS (state that Robert Cotton had lived in Kansas; (this has to be a ref to Robert S. Cotton, who lived in Iola, KS) NOTE: Letters Test, 16 June 1848 (Trapani Papers, CCHS) NOTE: Crawford Co, PA Tax Lists, Shenango Twp (1816 - Robert Cotton, 200 Acres Acres, 1 Horse, 1 Cow; 1817 - 200 acres, 2 Horses, 2 Cows)
RUTH SETTERQUIST, 1318 SHELBY DR., FAIRFIELD, CA 94533; 10/90; 10/98 BIRTH-MARRIAGE: DAR Supplemental #568111 (John Cotton) D.A.R. #322667, Adelaide Richardson (Mrs. Geo. Buist) BIRTH-DEATH-BURIAL: CCHS Cem Index Card File BIRTH-MARRIAGE-DEATH-BURIAL: "McGinness & Scott Families & Their Branches", by S. W. McGinness, 1891, Pg 82, 83 (see this ref for McGinness line) MARRIAGE-DEATH-BURIAL: Espyville Cem Index, CCHS (d 20 Nov 1845; w/o Robert Cotton) BIRTH-MARRIAGE-DEATH-BURIAL: "Descendants of Henry Cotton", Revised by Roger A Johnson, 1994, Pgs 12, 13
Ruth Setterquist, 1318 Shelby Dr., Fairfield, CA 95433 BIRTH-MARRIAGE: Crawford Co Wills, Vol B, Pg 305: named in the will of her father, Robert Cotton, as Margaret Hamill, a resident of West Fallowfield Twp, eldest daughter CENSUS: 1850 W Fallowfield Twp, Crawford Co, PA BIRTH-MARRIAGE-BEATH-BURIAL: "McGinness & Scott Families & Their Branches", S.W. McGinness, 1891, Pgs 82-83: b 5 Sep 1811 in this record; md 20 MAY 1834 BIRTH-MARRIAGE-DEATH-BURIAL: Family Records of Vera E. Pack, Kansas City, MO; (b 1 Sep 1812 in this record) BIRTH-MARRIAGE-DEATH: "Descendants of Henry Cotton", revised 1994, Roger A. Johnson, Pg 29: first lived in Hartstown after marriage, then E. Fallowfield Twp bef 1850; to KS May 1860 settling in Leavenworth Co., on 14 APR 1876; aft Wm's death, she moved to Optima, OK in AUG 1890; (more in ref)
Ruth Setterquist, 1318 Shelby Dr., Fairfield, CA 95433 BIRTH-MARRIAGE: Crawford Co Wills, Vol B, Pg 305: named in the will of her father, Robert Cotton, as Eliza Murray, of Gustaves, Turnbull Co, OH, youngest daughter CENSUS: 1860 Crawford Co, PA, Meadville (occ, milliner) MARRIAGE: LDS International Genealogical Index BIRTH-MARRIAGE-DEATH: "McGinness & Scott Families & Their Branches" S.W., McGiness, 1891, Pg 87, 88 (more info in ref) BIRTH-MARRIAGE-DEATH: "Descendants of Henry Cotton", Revised 1994, Roger A. Johnson, Pgs 29-30: md in Evansburg, now Conneaut Lake; her husband was res of Columbiana Co, OH 1892, was a tailor; they lived in Andover, Ashtabula, OH; to Jamestown, Mercer Co, PA 1839; living in Gustavus, Trumbull, OH in 1845; to PA again after 1850 settling in New Castle, Lawrence Co
Ruth Setterquist, 1318 Shelby Dr., Fairfield, CA 95433 BIRTH: Crawford Co Wills, Vol B, Pg 305 (mentioned in the Will of Robert Cotton, as his son, a resident of Washington Co, PA) BIRTH-MARRIAGE-DEATH-BURIAL: "McGinness & Scott Families & Their Branches", S. W. McGinness, 1891, Pg 92-93: (res of Edenburg, Lawrence Co, PA; Brownsville, Fayette Co, PA; Centreville (E Bethlehem P O), Washington Co., PA; studied medicine under Dr. William Gibson, his wife's brother; (more) DEATH-PROBATE: Washington Co, PA Wills, Vol 11, Pg 32: (Will of Dr. William Cotton of Brownsville, Fayette Co, PA; mentions real estate in Morrow Co., OH, where son-in-law, A.B. Richardson and children of deceased daughter, Ella, now reside; also mentions son, William G. Cotton of E Bethlehem, PA DEATH: Meadville Weekly Republican, 30 Dec 1881, Pg 8 DEATH: Trapani Papers, CCHS: formerly of Hartstown, PA; married Elizabeth Black and was father of Dr. John C. Cotton and Prof. A. D. Cotton, (an error) BIRTH-MARRIAGE-DEATH-BURIAL: Descendants of Henry Cotton, Revised 1994, Roger A. Johnson, Pg 30 (more info in ref) D.A.R. #322677, Adelaide Richardson (Mrs. George Lamb Buist)
Ruth Setterquist, 1318 Shelby Dr., Fairfield, CA 95433 CENSUS: 1830; 1840; Fallowfield Twp, Crawford Co, PA CENSUS: 1850 W Fallowfield Twp, Crawford Co, PA: farmer; f-i-l, Joseph Wright living in h/h, also Harriet Flury, aged 17 BIRTH-MARRIAGE: "McGinness & Scott Families & Their Branches", S.W. McGinness, 1891, pg 95, 96: rem to Washington Co, PA nr Brownsville; rem to Fayette Co, PA 1859; rem to nr Mt Vernon, Knox Co, OH 1865; rem to Baldwin, Douglas Co, KS 1869 BIRTH: Crawford Co Wills, Vol B, Pg 305: Will of Robert Cotton, he names his son, John Vance Cotton, sole exec, leaving all his estate and personal property to him NOTE: From 1885 Crawford Co History, Pg 692: ME Church of Hartstown organized in 1840; early members were Samuel Cotton, Vance Cotton, James Wright, John Hammel and James I. Lewis BIRTH-MARRIAGE: "Descendants of Henry Cotton", Revised 1994, Roger A. Johnson Pgs 13, 31: rem to Washington Co, PA, nr Brownsville in 1859; in Mar 1865 rem to nr Mt Vernon, Knox Co, OH; rem to farm nr Baldwin, Douglass Co., KS Dec 1869; in 1900 was a farmer in Ozark Twp, Anderson Co., KS; his son Simon & dau, May, were living there with him; (more in ref) NOTE: Need 1900 Census Ozark Twp, Anderson Co, KS and more MABELLE ISHAM, 21990 15 MILE RD., BELLEVUE, MI 49021; SL WINTER 97
He married Martha McGuinness 1810 at Pennsylvania . Martha McGuinness was born at Staunton, Augusta, Virginia 6 Dec 1791 .
They were the parents of 4
children:
Margaret Cotton
born 5 Sep 1811.
Eliza Cotton
born 16 Nov 1815.
William McGinness Cotton, Dr
born 18 Oct 1818.
John Vance Cotton
born 9 Sep 1820.
Robert Cotton died 21 May 1848 at Espyville, Crawford, Pennsylvania .
Martha McGuinness died 20 Nov 1845 at Espyville, Crawford, Pennsylvania .