Ancestry of
Benjamin Harrison V

Signer of the Declaration of Independence

William Cotton

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of Benjamin Harrison V — 11th Generation
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  • 1496 
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  • Walter Cotton 
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  Edmund Cotton (Ahnentafel No:748 )

  Catherine Cotton

  Joan Cotton

  Audrey Cotton

• Sources for William Cotton

  • ¹ Betham, Rev. William, The Baronetage of England, or the History of the English Baronets, and such Baronets of Scotland . . ., Vol. 1, London: Burrell and Bransby (1801), 402.
  • ² Harvey, William, The Visitation of Suffolke, Vol. 2, London: Whittaker and Co. (1868), 273, 290.
  • ³ Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013), Vol. V, p. 126.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 560, 842.