William Cotton (John Cotton) 
William was born in 1615 in England.1 William's father was Andrew Cotton and his mother was Joanne. He was an only child. He died at the age of 25 in 1640 in Northampton County, Virginia.1 General Notes
There is a tradition in the family that he was a son of widow Joan Cotton of Bunbury, Cheshire Co., England, and was granted 350 acres of land on the main branches of Hungar's Creek, adjoining the lands of his brother-in-law, Capt William Stone . This consisted of 100 acres for personal adventure of himself and wife, and 250 acres for the transportation of five persons to Virginia: Eleanor Hill, Richard Hill, Edward Eason and Domingo and Sambo, negroes. William Cotton was succeeded b y Rev. John Rozier
Details of William's family with Ann Graves
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