Robert COTTON

Birth:
2 Aug 1787
Strabane, Washington, Pennsylvania
Death:
21 May 1848
Espyville, Crawford, Pennsylvania
Burial:
May 1848
Espyville Cem, Crawford, Pennsylvania
Marriage:
1810
Pennsylvania
Notes:
                   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)
                  
Martha MCGUINNESS
Birth:
6 Dec 1791
Staunton, Augusta, Virginia
Death:
20 Nov 1845
Espyville, Crawford, Pennsylvania
Burial:
Espyville Cem, Crawford, Pennsylvania
Father:
Blocked
Mother:
Blocked
Notes:
                   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
                  
Children
Marriage
1
Birth:
5 Sep 1811
Shenango, Crawford, Pennsylvania
Death:
1899
Guymon, Texas, Oklahoma
Marr:
20 May 1833/34
W Fallowfield, Crawford, Penns 
Notes:
                   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)
                  
2
Birth:
16 Nov 1815
Shenango, Crawford, Pennsylvania
Death:
12 Mar 1884
New Castle, Lawrence, Pennsylvania
Marr:
23 Aug 1835
Evansburg, Crawford, Pennsylva 
Notes:
                   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
                  
3
Birth:
18 Oct 1818
Hartstown, Crawford, Pennsylvania
Death:
23 Nov 1881
Centreville, Washington, Pennsylvania
Marr:
1842
Jamestown, Mercer, Pennsylvani 
Notes:
                   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)
                  
4
Birth:
9 Sep 1820
Hartstown, Shenango, Pennsylvania
Death:
Marr:
13 May 1847
 
Notes:
                   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
                  
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Robert Cotton - Martha McGuinness

Robert Cotton was born at Strabane, Washington, Pennsylvania 2 Aug 1787. His parents were John Cotton and Margaret Stockton.

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 .