Cotton DNA Project

FAMILY 8

1 John Cotten, b.ca. 1660/70, Virginia, d. 1728, Bertie Co., NC

...+ Martha Godwin

.....2 Samuel Cotten, b. 1708, Nansemond Co., VA, d. 1774, Northampton Co., NC

........+ Elizabeth

..........3 Samuel Cotten Jr., b. 1746, Northampton Co., NC

.............+ Elizabeth Ewell

...............4 Roderick Cotten, b. Mar. 16, 1788, Edgecombe Co., NC, d. 1814, Edgecombe Co., NC

..................+ Mary Topping Braswell

....................5 John Llewellyn Cotten, b. May 6, 1810, Edgecombe Co., NC , d. 1848, Edgecombe Co., NC

.......................+ Nancy Bell Penina Tart Johnson

.........................6 Robert Randolph Cotten, b. June 20, 1839, Edgecombe Co., NC, d. Aug. 12, 1926, Pitt Co., NC

............................+ Sallie Swepson Sims Southall

..............................7 Preston Sims Cotten, b. Apr. 1878, Pitt Co., NC, d. Mar. 1966, Middlesex Co., MA

.................................+ Willa Strange

...................................8 Robert Randolph Cotten II, b. May 4, 1917, Middlesex Co., MA, Dec. 20, 2003, Broome Co., NY

......................................+ Elizabeth Moss

........................................9 ROBERT RANDOLPH COTTEN III

The paper trail for this family indicates that they belong to family 7. However, the y-chromosome mismatch would suggest that a non-paternal event occurred in this line.