Cotton DNA Project

FAMILY 12A

1 William Cotton, b. ca. 1614, England

...+ Elizabeth Ham

.....2 William Cotton, b. 1654, Portsmouth, NH

........+ Abigail Pickering

..........3 Thomas Cotton, b. bef. 1694, Portsmouth, NH

.............+ Elizabeth Jackson

...............4 Thomas Cotton, b. June 1729, Portsmouth, NH

..................+ Abigail Beck

....................5 Nathaniel Cotton, b. ca. 1761, Portsmouth, NH

.......................+ Maria Spoor

.........................6 William Cotton, b. Oct. 1792, Albany, NY

............................+ Parnell Russel

..............................7 Milton Jerome Cotton, b. 1836, NY

.................................+ Harriet C. Johnson

...................................8 Erwin Jerome Cotton, b. Feb. 1862, Joliet, IL

......................................+ Alfaretta Luduka Whitney

........................................9 Richard Whitney Cotton, b. June 1893, Rockford, IL

..........................................+ Cleora Artz

............................................10 Richard Clair Cotton, b. June 1922, Spokane Co., WA

................................................+ Theo Lorena Vest

.................................................11 Richard Clair Cotton, b. 1948, Portland, OR

.....................................................+ Diane Marie Haugen

......................................................12 JASON LEE COTTON

The paper trail for this family indicates that they belong to family 12, but the y-chromosome mismatch would suggest that a non-paternal event occured in this line.