Sally's
great-great-great-great-Grandparents:
Godwin Cotten 3 Feb 1761 - 5 June 1830 |
his parents
& 1778/79 Sarah Brown 1762 - 1833
| her parents
of Mulberry Grove, Hertford County, North Carolina
This is my working hypothesis - the way I see it as of this moment!!
1761, 3 Feb -
Godwin Cotten, youngest son of Arthur Cotten and Elizabeth Rutland, was born at
Mulberry Grove, Hertford County, North Carolina.
1768 - ?? It is reputed that Godwin served as Asst. County Surveyor--laying out the town of Winton [perhaps
it was his older brother Cullen]
1775/83 - reputed to have served as Aide-de-Camp of Gen. Robert Howe
in the Rev.
1778/79 - Godwin Cotten married Sarah Brown daughter of
John Brown and wife Sarah Brittle of Hertford County, NC.
1779, 10 Feb - mother Elizabeth Rutland Cotten dies at Mulberry Grove
ca 1780 - daughter Elizabeth Cotten born
1782, 2 July - daughter Esther Cotten born
1782 - the Kehukee [Baptist] Association held its annual session at Mulberry Grove at
the invitation of Arthur Cotten, who was a life long Episcopalian [and a member of the vestry at St. Johns we are told]
1789 - father Arthur Cotten dies at Mulberry Grove
[aft. 4 Sept]
1790/1804 - Godwin
Cotten and wife Sally join the Baptist Church at Sandy Run and are baptised
by their neighbor Lemuel Burkitt
1799 - ad in Halifax Journal says Godwin Cotten will receive bees-wax
paying $ .25 per lb for a Prudent LePainteur [probably to make candles]
1800, 14 Sept - .report of Henry Potter
- COTTON, Arthur. 29.8.1 p.16 Claim of GIBSON, DONALDSON, & CO. Died in the Year 1789. Application has been made to his son, G.
COTTON, by a Mr. Fisher of Suffolk for payment. The son knows nothing of the Debt and informs me that he is unable. . .to pay it, if it were just- that the estate of his Father is scattered over the county . .
NCGSJ Feb 82, p. 19
COTTON, Arthur. 29.8.1, p. 9 Claim of GIBSON, DONALDSON, & CO. He died rich in the
County of Hertford. His son Goodman COTTEN of same county is his executor. That the
estate is solvent may be proved by Col. Hardy MURFREE of the same county. (These
reports were prepared about 1800-1803.) NCGSJ May 91, p.101
1802, 25 Nov -
brother Jesse Cotten names Godwin as one of his executors
ca 1804 - first
grandchild Sallie Johnston was born.
1805 - granddaughter
Emeline Moore was born at Mulberry Grove
1806 - grandsons Samuel Iredell Johnston and Godwin Cotten Moore were
born at Mulberry Grove.
1807 - neighbor Lemuel Burkitt [Baptist preacher] dies leaving Godwin
Cotten as the executor of his estate.
1807 - son-in-law John S Johnston died leaving dau. Elizabeth a widow
with two children
ca 1812 - granddaughter Sarah Matilda Moore was born
1813 - The Hornets Nest, Murfreesboro reports that Godwin Cotten, Esq. married Mr. George Howard to Miss Penelope Moore.
1815 - son-in-law James W Moore died leaving dau. Esther a widow with
three children.
ca 1816 - dau. Elizabeth marries 2nd Cornelius Moore
1819, 8 Jan - twin
grandchildren born to Elizabeth: Cornelius and Cornelia
1822 - both grandsons
enroll at UNC
1823 - death of son-in
law Cornelius Moore
1821/24 -
granddaughter Emeline marries Dr. N P Fletcher [lived Roxobel]
1825 - dau. Esther marries 2nd John Jones of Lawrenceville, VA
1825 - grandson G C
Moore studies medicine with brother-in-law Fletcher
1826 - grandson Sam
Johnston graduated UNC
1827 - granddaughter
Cornelia Moore died
1828 - grandson G C
Moore receives MD with high honors from UP.
1828 - grandson Charles Godfrey Jones
was born, son of Esther
1829, 18 Feb - Godwin Cotten wrote his will.
1829 - grandson Sam
Johnston married
Margaret Burgwyn
1830, 5 June - Godwin Cotten died at Mulberry Grove in Hertford
County.
from the Edenton Gazette Thursday, 15 July 1830 " Died in Hertford County
on the 5th ultimo, Godwin Cotton, Esq. In the 70th year of his age."
- NCGSJ May 1997
1832, 25 June -
grandson G. C. Moore married Julia Wheeler
1833, 17 Sept - widow Sarah Brown Cotten died.
Children of Godwin Cotten and Sarah Brown:
1. Elizabeth (Betsy) Cotten ca 1780
-
married 1st John Scrymoure Johnston
1773 - 1807
correct spelling of his name from documents--
Molly
Urquhart
married 2nd [aft 1815, bef 1818] Cornelius Moore died 1823
2. Esther Cotten 2 July 1782 - 6 Sept. 1854
married 1st in 1804 James Wright Moore 1773- 17 June 1815
married 2nd in 1825 Capt. John Jones 30 Mar 1764 -
1844
Sarah Brown, the daughter of John Brown and Sarah .
I
also think Sarah, wife of John Brown, is the daughter of John Brittle who died in
NH Co, NC in 1780 leaving Sarah Brown a bequest of 100 pounds VA money, bed, and
furniture etc. [Perhaps Dr. G
C Moore misunderstood his grandmother when she told him her grandparents
were Brittles and thought she had said Brickles.] I do not think she was daughter of Col Matt Brickel, his oldest Marinia was
born 6 Sept 1749-died 8 Jan 1762. (The Brickels made no notice of a marriage or of a
child being born in their Bible just Marina's death.) Winborne wrote
Godwin Cotten of Hertford married Sarah Brown, the daughter of Maj. Jno. Brown, and
granddaughter of Colonel Brickle. Maj. John Brown and his wife Sarah were also the
grandparents of the late. . .
NC Journal Halifax 15 April 1799: Avis aux
Marchands de Cire. Les Persounes qui m'apporterout a Halifax, ou chez Mons Godwin COTTEN
Hertford c. de la Cire, Je m'oblige leur achetter j'us'qua la concurrance de cent milliers
en totalite a raison d'un quart de gourde la livre, sans interruption jus'qua ceque J'aye
fait avertir trois fois sur les papi?ers d'Halifax. ce l?e Avril. Prudent LEPAINTEUR.
Bees-wax. 100,000 lb. wanted. For which a quarter of a dollar per lb. will be given, if
delivered in Halifax Town to P. LEPAINTEUR; or in Hertford county , to G. Cotten. . .
from the Edenton Gazette Thursday, 15 July 1830
" Died in Hertford County
on the 5th ultimo, Godwin Cotton, Esq. In the 70th year of his age."
- NCGSJ May 1997
Will of Godwin Cotten Hertford County NC
In the name of God Amen I Godwin Cotten calling to mind the mortality of my body &
knowing it is appointed for man to die and being of a sound mind and desposing memory have
ordained and Constituted this my last will & Testament.
I give my body to the Earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my Executor &
my soul to God who gave it believing in the Resurrection Son Jesus Christ will raise my
body again at the Last day
Item. I lend unto my beloved wife Sally Cotten during her life the following negroes
Willis Tom & Peter also two work horses one yoke of Oxen one cart & wheels three
Cows & calves four sows & pigs five Ewes & Lambs three feather Beds &
furniture one dozen Setting chairs my same plantation whereon I now live during her life
Item I give my wife Sally Cotten one half of my farming utensils such as ploughs &
axes also one half of my crop of corn fodder & wheat also half of my kitchen furniture
such as pots tubs pans &c
Item I give unto my daughter Elizabeth Moore one negro woman named Charlott with her three
children widow Mary dau of Mary and all the issue of Charlott from the date of this will
to her and her heirs forever.
Item I lend unto my daughter Elizabeth Moore one negro boy named Robbin also one negro
girl named Sylvia during her life
Item I lend unto my Daughter Elizabeth Moore two negro named Abbe & Lidia also one
negro man named Isaac during her life
Item I give unto Sally Ann Johnston after her Mother's death the two negro women Sylvia
& Malvina to her & her heirs forever.
Item I give unto Samuel I Johnston after his Mother's death the negro man named Isaac to
him and his heirs forever also one boy named Robbin
Item I give unto my Daughter Esther Jones one negro woman ----- to her & her heirs
forever also one tract of Land Called C. . . . . . ..
Item I give unto my Grandson Godwin C Moore after his Grandmother's death the land upon
where on I now live with the negro Sam also one desk & book case standing in the front
room also two looking glasses in Mid Room to him and his heirs forever it is my will &
desire that Godwin C Moore live with his Grandmother work the Land & support her while
she lives
Item I give unto my Granddaughter Emeline Fletcher one negro man Dempar to her & her
heirs forever
Item I give unto my Granddaughter Sally Matilda Moore after her Grandmother's death the
negro named Willis to her & her heirs forever
Item I give unto my grandchildren the Moores & the Johnstons all the money that
appears to be owing to me for schooling & except a note in books given by Godwin C
Moore to James Atkinson two hundred dollars
Item it is my will & desire that all the remainder of my Estate that I have not given
away or lent be sold that my negroes Ben Ally Cate and after my just debts is paid if
there should be any remainder that the money be equally divided between my wife & my
two daughters Elizabeth Moore & Esther Jones
Item I nominate and appoint my two Grandsons Godwin C Moore & Samuel I Johnson my
Executors to this my last will & Testament given under my hand & seal this 18th
day of Febr 1829.
witness: Godwin Cotten (seal)
Benj A Parker, Godwin Cotten Junr, John Brown
Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions State of North Carolina November Term 1830 Hertford
County
This last will & Testament of Godwin Cotten decd was in open Court proved by the oath
of Benj A Parker & John Brown two of the subscribing Witnesses thereto & ordered
to be recorded At the same time Godwin C Moore & Samuel I Johnson the Executors
appointed were duly qualified as such and . . .. . .
An Inventory of the Estate of Godwin Cotten decd
Sold by the Executors on the 25th of October
and on the 20th December 1830
Given in on oath at the February Term of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions 1831
3 Negro Slaves Ben, Ally & Cate;
thirty five Bbls of Corn;
6 Stacks Fodder;
2 Oat Stacks;
25 Bus Wheat;
50 Bus of Potatoes;
2 Work Horses;
26 Head Cattle;
23 Head Sheep;
Eight Thousand three Hundred and forty nine pounds of Pork;
10 year-old Hogs;
1 sow & 6 Shoats;
7 sows & 25 pigs;
Farming Utensils Consisting of 8 old plows--various in Kind with a quanity of acoutrements
for the same,
5 Axes, 2 Iron wedges, 1 Cross Cut Saw, I Hand Saw, 4 Weeding Hoes, 2 grubing Hoes, 1 log
chain, 1 trace, 2 sythes old Irons of various descriptions, 1 brace & bit;
8 brandy Barrells;
20 Cipress Cyder Bbls;
26 Oak Cyder Bbls;
2 Cider Hhds;
3 kegs;
1 old stand;
1 Cowpers adze;
1 Cart & wheels;
1 old Gig wheel; 1 pr old Wheels; 2 grind stones; 1 Barrell Still; 1 Hand mill; 1 pr of
Steelyards
1 Loom;
Household & Kitchen Furniture Consisting of 5 Beds Steads & furniture; 1 Desk, 3
Walnut Tables, 1 Dressing Table, 6 Splint Chairs; 1 arm Chair; 2 looking glasses; 1 Case
Bottles; Knives; forks &c; waiters; plates; Dishes; glasses &c. Books of various
Kinds; 1 Tea Kettle; 3 pots; 1 oven; 1 Tray Pail; 1 Linen wheel; 2 Benches;
One old Gig & Harness;
1 Dutch Fan.
A quanity of leather;
3 bus of Flax Seed;
20 Dollars in Cash found in the house;
two notes against Mrs E Moore--1 of 110 Dlls given 1st June 1826 with Interest from dates,
Crredited April 15th 1828 by 100 Dlls another of $188.30 given the 5th day of March 1827
then on demand, Credited March 6th 1827 by 100 Dlls.
Also against Mrs Nancy Brown dated the 19th June 1816 on demand two days after date for
42.75 --this may be Considered as desperate.
G C Moore Exor.
Will of Sally Cotten Hertford County NC
In the name of God Amen I Sally Cotten knowing that I shall in the course of time die but
being at this time of a sound and disposing mind do make publish and declare this to bo my
last Will & Testament.
Item 1st I Give and bequeath to my grandson Godwin C Moore all of my goods chattles
negroes and the Growing Crop except such as I shall hereafter despose of.
Item 2nd I Give and bequeath to my grand daughter Sally M Moore one Bed and its furniture
and one Cow and Calf.
Item 3rd I Give and bequeath to my Grandson Samuel Iredell Johnston and bed and its
furniture and a cow & calf.
Item 4th I do hereby constitute and appoint my Grandson Godwin C Moore My Sole executor.
Witness my hand and seal this the 5th of May 1832 Sally Cotten
Mary Eliza Brown Martha Wootton
State of North Carolina Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions Hertford County February
Term 1833
The within Last Will & Testament of Sarah Cotten dec was exhibited in open Court and
proved by the oath of Mary Eliza Brown one of the subscribing Witnesses there to &
ordered to be Recorded At the Same time Godwin C Moore the Executor therein was duly . . .
Sally's 4 great aunt
Elizabeth
Cotten ca 1780 - aft 1833 |
her
parents
& ca 1803 John Scrymoure Johnston 1773 - 1807 |
his
parents
& 1815/18 Cornelius Moore ca 1761 - 1823 |
his
parents
of Mulberry Grove NC & Rich Square NC
Elizabeth Cotten called Betsy was born ca 1780 the first child of Godwin Cotten &
Sarah Brown of Mulberry Grove. She married twice. She married first John Scrymoure
Johnston of Bertie Co, a nephew of Governor Sam. Johnston. John S Johnston died at
Mulberry Grove in 1807 leaving two children Sallie Ann & Samuel Iredell Johnston.
Betsy married second Cornelius Moore of Rich Square, NC. There were two more children
twins Cornelius & Cornelia (Cornelia died young when she was about eight).
Harriett Moore and Isaac
Carter Moore were Cornelius’s children by his first wife.
It was with this family that the Yankees left the old horse "Clem Jim" after they took him
from Mulberry Grove. "Clem Jim" was only used by the women to drive to and from Rich Square
to visit their cousins and when he got to their cousins' house, Clem Jim had just refused to go any further.
The next week the cousins drove out to Mulberry Grove to check on the family
with the only horse
they had. Uncle Will spotted them first; he went running to his mother yelling, "Ma,
Ma, come quick! Here comes Cousin Harriet and she's driving old Clem Jim!"
There is a second "Clem Jim" story that always followed that one. One day soon afterwards
Uncle Will was bragging as boys will about far he could throw. "Why I can throw as
far as old Clem Jim standing there!" and with that he let sail a stone and sure
enough, it reached old Clem Jim---hit him right smack in the middle of the forehead; and
the old horse just rolled over--dead as a door knob.
Elizabeth Cotten & John Scrymoure Johnston had:
1. Sallie Ann Johnston ca 1805 - 1850 no
children
married Gen. James Dean
Wynns ca 1803 - aft 1860 of Edenton
(son of Benjamin Wynns III of Hert. Co)
2. Rev. Samuel Iredell Johnston 28 Dec 1806 - 12 Aug 1865 (grad.
UNC 1826)
Samuel Iredell Johnston was Rector of St. Paul's at Edenton for
"fifty years"
I do think this is a slight exaggeration - smk
married 23 Sept 1829 Margaret A Burgwin 1 Nov
1811 - 16 Oct 1886
daughter of George William Bush Bergwin
a. James Cathcart Johnston
Jr 12 Jan 1834 - 21
Dec 1888 Hochheim, Dewitt Co TX
"He was named for his father's first cousin, the master of Hayes and
owner of vast estates throughout the Albemarle region. The younger
Johnston styled himself James Cathcart Johnston, Jr. and lived at Hayes with
his elder
relation until their rupture early in the Civil War. The elder Johnston made a
new will in 1863 completely disinheriting his relatives and leaving everything
to three friends and business partners. Dr. Max R. Williams of Western
Carolina University wrote a two-part series "The Johnston Will Case: A
Clash of Titans" for the North Carolina Historical Review in 1990."
(six children all rem
to TX)
married
3 Jul 1958 Katherine [Katie] Harris Warren 18 July 1840
- 22 Feb 1889
i. Sallie Annie Johnston
ii. Katherine
[Kate] Warren Johnston
iii. Frances
[Fannie] Christian Johnston
iv. William
Warren Johnston
e-mail from RE to James
James Cathcart Johnson, eldest son of the Rev. Johnston, had a
daughter named Anne, who is likely the niece living with Helen
Perry in 1880. RE
e-mail from James
That wouldn't surprise me. James had been named for his father's
cousin the eccentric but very wealthy old bachelor James Cathcart
Johnston, who lived at Hayes plantation at Edenton and owned vast tracts
of land along the Roanoke River. Everyone simply assumed that
young James was the heir apparent. He called himself "James
C. Johnston, Jr.". He and his wife and children were
living with the elder Johnston. When Roanoke Island fell early in
the War, the Albemarle Sound was opened to Yankee invasion. The
younger Johnston and family refugeed to Virginia leaving the old man who
refused to abandon his home. This led to much bad blood.
When the old man died in 1865 shortly after the end of the war, it was
found that he had disinherited all of his Johnston kin and left
everything to his friend Edward Wood and several other business
associates. The Johnstons challenged the will on the grounds of
mental incompetency. There followed a sensational trial with the
best legal minds lined up on both sides. The will stood, and the
Woods live at Hayes to this day. James and Kate packed up and went
to Texas, where they are supposed to have had a very hard time of it.
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b. Mariah Nash Johnston 1836 - 1907
married Rev. Francis W. Hilliard
1830 MA -
in 1861 Rector of
Grace Church, Plymouth
He was the rector of the Chapel of the Cross in Chapel Hill during the
War.
He received the honorary degree of master of arts at the Commencement
of 1864 UNC
i. Frances
Hilliard ca 1857 -
ii.
Margaret Hilliard 1859 -
c. Elizabeth Cotten Johnston 22 Feb 1838 - 29 June 1879 Paris,
France
married Dr. Edward Warren of Edenton
i. Elizabeth Cotten Warren d. ca 1910 Paris, France
ii. Inis
Warren
married Frank Bizzell
1. Frank Bizzel
2. Mary Bizzell
d. George Burgwyn Johnston 1840 - 1863/4
health ruined in Civil War (grad UNC 1855)
married Nannie Johnson dau of Dr.
Charles E Johnson
from a piece written by Gen. H Lane -
Charlotte Observer 1895
"Company G, which was cut off from the regiment at Kinney's, can never
forget how their brave, but frail and delicate young captain George B
Johnston, afterward the accomplished adjutant-general of the brigade, swam
the river to escape the enemy, and then swam back rather than appear to have
deserted his men; how he marched as a prisoner of war from Kinney's farm to
West Point in his wet clothes; how he was confined on Johnson's Island; how
he read the Episcopal service regularly to his fellow-prisoners there; how
he endeared himself to all in his captivity; how he was joyfully welcomed
back to camp; and how, a physical wreck, he was soon forced to return home
to die. A nobler, braver, purer Christian hero never lived."
Again from Battle's History of UNC:
George Burgwyn Johnston Class of 1859. From Edenton.
Matriculated 1855.
Held rank of captain in the war. Gave the valedictory address at the
1859 commencement when President Buchannan was in attendance. In 1861
he was named
tutor of Greek. In 1862 it was noted he was a captain and prisoner of
war. He returned from a long imprisonment in Ohio with a ruined
constitution. In 1864 the faculty were allowed to cut firewood from
the University forests. "...and the same liberty was granted to
the widow of Tutor George B. Johnston, who had died in service".
Letters
from George B Johnston to Lane Nov 62 - July 1863 |
e. Gabriel Johnston 1842 -
1902 (Episcopalian Minister)
UNC Commencement of 1893: Doctor
of Divinity awarded to Gabriel Johnston, a native of North Carolina, Rector
of a Parish in Canada. "It was
resolved to confer the degree of A.B. on the surviving members of the War
Classes, 1862 to 1868, inclusive. The following received diplomas at
the Commencement of 1911" Class of 1863: Gabriel Johnston
married Alice Killaly died 1926
i. Mary Carmen Johnston 1876 -
married William Vicars Mencke
1. Ruth Mencke
married Robert Hutchinson
ii. Margaret Johnston
1878 -
married
Harry W McCoombe
1911 census - he is a barrister living on Dorothy St, Welland, Ontario
1. Hudson W McCoombe Oct 1906 -
2. Gabriel J McCoombe Oct 1909 -
iii. Emma Killaly Johnston
1880 -
married William H Bailey
1. Alice Bailey
2. William Bailey
iv. Kathleen Johnston
1882 -
v. George
Johnston 1888 - 1913
vi. Iredell Killaly Johnston
1888 - 1953
married Helen Clarissa Richardson 1896 - 1990
1. Helen Mary Johnston 1924 - 1988
married Hugh Grant Harper 1924 -
family info from their daughter Helen
2. Frances Austin Johnston 1927 -
married Rolland Lewis Jerry - died March 2002
f. Helen
Scrymoure Johnston 1844 -
(rem. to Wilcox
Co, AL 1869)
married 8 Feb 1869
John D. Perry
ca 1843 - ca 1871
g. John Johnston 1846 - 1877
married
Ida Lytle nfi
h. Samuel Iredell Johnston 1848 - 1850/60 d. y.
i. Iredell Johnston 1850 - dsp
j. Frances [Fannie] Ann Johnston 31 March 1858 - 1907
married John
Daniel Parker Monroe, NC -
i. John
Johnston Parker 1885 - 1958
lawyer and judge a Federal judge in Charlotte
served on the Nuremburg War Crimes Tribunal
married 1910 Maria Burgwin Maffitt
1. Francis Iredell
Parker
Francis Iredell Parker ~ lawyer
Charlotte, NC
ii. Samuel
Iredell [Sy] Parker
Samuel Iredell Parker
US Army
Medal of Honor, WWI
photo courtesy of HomeofHeroes.co
Elizabeth Cotten & Cornelius Moore had:
3. Dr. Cornelius Godwin Cotten Moore 8 Jan 1819 - 15 June 1888 Jackson, NC
married Phila. 1 Dec 1841 Ellen Matilda
Britton 25 Jan 1817 PA - 4 Feb 1893 NC
he was a graduate of UP medical school
Dr. Cornelius Godwin Cotten Moore and wife Ellen
Britton
Dr. C. G. C. Moore's medical office
when he lived in Rich Square.
It has been moved to Jackson, NC
Jackson, NC
no children raised her nephew
William Cornelius Bowen
a. William Cornelius
[Neil] Bowen Jackson, NC 9 Nov 1849 - ?
married 1877
Frances Josephine
[Josi] Southall 14 Aug 1853 - 25 Jan
1893
4. Cornelia Moore 1819 - 1827
"On
the 13th and 14th of this month the death of seven of Northampton's oldest
citizens occurred, says the Weldon News. Near Seaboard Mr. Joseph Davis aged
68 years; near Pleasant Hill Mrs. Colly Wright aged 86; at Jackson Mrs.
Buffalo at an advanced age; near Jackson Dr. C. G. C. Moore aged 70 years;
near Seaboard Mr. James W. Jordan aged 85 years." "Murfreesboro
Index", John W. Hicks, ed., Murfreesboro, [Hertford County],
N.C.
Friday, June 29, 1888 [Vol. III, No. 45]
[excerpt from "From
Time into Eternity" CD-ROM by David Powell, Winton NC: Liberty Shield
Press ©2004]
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