The Ancestral Home of the Cottens and the Moores
– Mulberry Grove built ca 1758 by Arthur Cotten,
remodeled 1830’s by Dr. Godwin Cotten Moore
the house
– over the years
– the interior
– the graveyard
the family portraits
“Legends of St John’s Chapel” by John Wheeler Moore
the water oak of Mulberry Grove
– pictures of the oak
The Official and Unofficial Histories of the Cotten Family
by James Elliott Moore
the lines of Dr. Godwin Cotten Moore
the residents:
Arthur Cotten 1716 -1789 and Elizabeth Rutland ca1720 –
Children: Cullen, Marina, Sarah, Helen, Silvia, Jesse, Godwin, Carolina
Godwin Cotten 1760 -1830 and Sarah Browne 1762 -1833
Children: Elizabeth and Esther
Esther Cotten 1782 – 1854 and James Wright Moore 1773 -1815
Godwin Cotten Moore 1806 -1880 and Julia M Wheeler 1814 -1888
William Edward Moore 1847 – 1920 and Annie Tait 1854 – 1913
pre- Mulberry Grove
the Cotten family
– John Cotten and Martha Godwin
Children: John, Patience, Martha, William, Anne, Mary, Samuel,
Susannah, Alexander, Joseph, Arthur, Priscilla, James and Thomas
of the Black Water in VA and Bertie Co, NC
John Cotton and Ann of Queens Ck, VA
John Cotton and Elizabeth Ridge of Wooditton
Sir Robert Cotton & Elizabeth Dodmer of Wooditton
Sir John Cotton & Dame Isabelle Spencer of Landwade
Notes on Ann Cotton of Queen’s Creek VA
the Moore family of Nansemond Co VA
– James Wright Moore
– William Edward Moore
– William Moore
the John Browne family of Cutawisky Marsh
the James Rutland family of Bertie Co
the William Godwin family of Isle of Wight Co, VA
the Williams family
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