HERTFORD COUNTY, NC - Will - Thomas Cotton, 1787.

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From abstract by William Perry Johnson (dec'd.), The North Carolinian 
(Series, 1950s-60s)

                   THOMAS COTTON d. 1787, Hertford Co.
                       Will proven Aug Term 1787

To Son, James Cotten:  122 acre tract on Horse Pocoson granted Samuel 
Cotten 7 Feb.1764 plus 20 acres on (Oriscer?) Meadows joining tract whereon 
he now lives which I had given to him before plus a copper still plus 
negroes Judy & child Huldy & increase...providing son James pay his sister 
Charity 30 pounds VA Currency after my decease.
To son Samuel Cotten:  Manor house plus part of land purchased of Abner 
Cotten & his wife Winifred by deed of 26 Feb 1767 (as far as corner at 
three white oaks on a branch running through Richard Nickens field, thence 
NE on side of slash to 3 white oaks, then SE to 3 marked trees....to 3 red 
oaks on Charles Jenkins line, thence to creek to mouth of (Cataie?) Branch, 
thence along old line to 1st station plus one half of pocoson land above 
Winton Road in Gates Co. plus negro man Ceezer, negro boy Guy plus still & 
Worm with two beds & furniture plus 1 dozen chairs, case of bottles, Church 
Bible, book-case, 1 bay horse called Harod, 2 young bay mare, 4 breeding 
sows, one-half dozen 2 year old hogs.
To son Noah Cotten:
To dtr Lowena Read & her daughter Temperance
To daughter Lytha Hobday & her son Thomas
To daughter Martha Cotten
To daughter Elizabeth
To daughter Lidia Cotten
To Samuel Cotten
To children:  Samuel Cotten, Noah Cotten, Joseph Cotten, Tempy 
Copeland, Mary
Spires, & Sally Cotten

Executors:  sons James & Samuel  
Witnesses:  Wm. Evans, Samuel Cotten, Chairity X Cotten.