Orange County Indexed
The Cotten surname
The Cotten name in Orange County Indexed: 3 historical records, 3 people in the chronology and 6 headings in books and archives.
- In the records
- 1803 to 1865
most named in the 1800s
- Records of enslaved people 1803
- Deeds 1804
- Marriages 1865
- In the chronology
- 1893 to 1984 3 people in 11 entries, most in the 1930s
- In books and archives
- 6 people, born 1873 to 1913
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Ellerbe Creek (1)
- Married into
- Ferrington 1 · the marriages
- People with a page here
- Bruce Cotten, Elizabeth Henderson Cotten, Elizabeth “Libba” Cotten, John Henderson Cotten, Lyman A. Cotten, Sallie Southall Cotten
- Spellings to try
- Cotton, Cotter
- Search beyond these records
- Cotten in Ancestry Library Edition (on the library’s public computers; add Orange County, North Carolina as a place)
- HeritageQuest, through NC LIVE (anywhere, with your OCPL library card; search Cotten there)
- Cotten in Orange County records on FamilySearch (free account)
Drawn from the records below. Families named together, or married to one another, are leads to follow, not proof of kinship. A similar spelling may be another family, and two people of the same name are not necessarily the same person.
In the chronology 3 people
The people of this surname named in the county’s dated events, as the names index lists them. Each printed name is its own heading; names that may be one person are not merged.
- Cotten, Elizabeth 3 entries, 1893–1984
- Cotten, Elizabeth Henderson 5 entries, 1927–1963
- Cotten, Mrs. Lyman 3 entries, 1933–1934
In books and archives 6 headings
Subject headings from the library catalogs Orange County Indexed gathers. A family heading collects genealogies and family papers; a person heading, the works about that person.
- Cotten, Elizabeth 6 works
- Cotten, Elizabeth Henderson 4 works
- Cotten, Lyman A., 1909-1991 3 works
- Cotten, Bruce, 1873-1954 2 works
- Cotten, John Henderson, 1913-1982 2 works
- Cotten, Sallie Southall 1 work
In the historical records 3 records
1 deeds, 1 records of enslaved people and 1 marriages, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Cotten marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1800s
- 1803Records of enslaved peopleDeed (sale or gift not stated): Charles Cotten to William Woods, 17 March 1803
- 1804DeedsCharles Cotten to William Shepherd, 2 April 1804
1860s
- 1865MarriagesMarriage bond: Wright Ferrington and Wescot Cotten
