Francis Cottom (Cottam) (son of Vincent Cottam and Catherine Cochrane)7, 8, 9, 10 was born 1794 in Lincolnshire England11, and died 01 Dec 1852 in Economy Twp Beaver PA12, 13, 14. He married Mary Musgrave on 15 Jan 1815 in Welton England15.
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Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s Record about Francis Cottam Name: Francis Cottam Year: 1820 Age: 26 Place: Philadelphia Source Publication Code: 9258 Primary Immigrant: Cottam, Francis Annotation: Record of 16th Congress, 2nd session, Senate Document 118, Serial Number 45. Contains 10,247 names from Customs lists. Ships to American ports in various regions. Much information about the immigrants. This is the first official list of immigrants publish Source Bibliography: UNITED STATES. DEPARTMENT OF STATE. Letter from the Secretary of State, with a Transcript of the List of Passengers Who Arrived in the United States from the 1st October, 1819, to the 30th September, 1820. Washington: Gales & Seaton, 1821. 288p. Reprinted with added index under the title, Passenger Arrivals 1819-1820..., by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1967, pp. 289-342. Page: 210
FRANCIS COTTAM Male ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Event(s): Birth: Christening: 05 FEB 1794 Frodingham, Lincoln, England Death: Burial: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Parents: Father: VINCENT COTTAM Family Mother: CATHE. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Messages: Extracted birth or christening record for the locality listed in the record. The source records are usually arranged chronologically by the birth or christening date. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Source Information: Batch No.: Dates: Source Call No.: Type: Printout Call No.: Type:
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From abstracts of Warners History
Francis Cottam, white, male; fifty-eight years old; son of Vincent and Catharine Cottam; a farmer; born in England; wife - Mary Cottam; died 1st December 1852; died in Economy Township, Beaver Co., Pa.; certificate returned by William Dunlap of Economy Township on February 11th 1853; registered the same day by Wm McCallister, Register. #12
Liverpool Mercury June 16 1820 For Philadlephia The fine American coppered ship 'JANE' John L FERGUSON Master http://www.old-liverpool.co.uk/ships.htmlCottom Author: Mary Hargett Date: 25 Aug 2000 7:07 PM GMT In Reply to: COTTOM FAMILY by: Byron Kettler Post Reply | Mark Unread Report Abuse Print Message Thank you. Where are you? I am in Arizona but family originated in So. Ill. My Grandfather's name was Samuel, he married Maggie I do not know her maiden name. He lived in Sparta Il and Maggie and my father lived in Murphysboro, Il. My father (Harry) died Jan 1959. He had a sister named Grace and a sister named Clara and a brother named John. That is all I know of my father's family. I have just about give up hope. I do know my greatgrandfather came to the states from England but I do not know where he settled. He came with a brother that embezzled all of the family money. Not much history. Any info you wish to send will be greatly appreciated.
Again, thank you. OK....this is going to be rather lengthy, so grab a cup of coffee or tea, better yet, print it and take it to a comfy chair. Thanks to Beverly Stacy of Morehead, Kentucky we are about to go back in history about 175 years..........WOW! Beverly was kind enough to share a copy of an interview with JAMES MUSGRAVE. Anything typed in green is my comment.
The following interview with James Musgrave was clipped from the PIKE COUNTY REPUBLICAN, published at Waverly, Ohio, June 13, 1872. Through the courtesy of Mrs Charles E. Noonen, (Noonen=James Jr.b. 1816 m. Margaret Hendrickson, their daughter Margaret b. 1843 m. John Noonen), of New Sewickley township, we are able to give out this interview to readers of the DAILY TIMES, and correct any erroneous dates, that may have been written into former sketches of the Musgrave's, from, memory, or by mistakes, in recording early history. JAMES MUSGRAVE "I was born in Welton, near Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, July 10, 1794. My father's given or Christian name was Simon. He was a well-to-do farmer and miller. He belonged to the Church of England, and brought up his family of eight children in that faith. His children were all schooled in the parish school, and the tuition was paid by those sending children, as was then the universal practice. I attended school seven years, commencing when I was four and ending when I was eleven years of age, when I was taken from school and put to work on my father's farm, consisting of 250 acres. He owned other land besides this farm.
Of course I had attained only the rudiments of an education, but I was quite efficient in arithmetic, in which I took great delight. I continued to work on the farm about eleven years, at which time I was twenty-two years of age. My father then gave me his grist mill, which was a good property. I hired a miller and superintended the operation of the mill. I kept it upwards of four and a half years, when I sold it for $5,000 and cleared about $1,000 while in business. This brought me to about twenty-six years of age in 1820. Just previous to reaching my majority, April 9, 1815, I married Winifred Clayworth, who was one year my junior, she having been born July 16, 1795. We had three sons born to us in England - James, William and Simon.
She (Winifred) had a sister Alice who later came to America and was the second wife of Samuel Dean. I had a sister Mary. She married Francis Cottom, and they concluded to come to America also. My wife was willing to cross the ocean with me, for I believed that there was more room for enterprise and growth here than there. So I settled up my business affairs, made every necessary arrangement, and we set sail from Liverpool in June 1820, in the ship Jane, Captain Ferguson. We were seven weeks making the voyage, and landed in Philadelphia. The sight of land, after so long confinement on shipboard, was a most welcome sight.
At Philadelphia, Cottom and myself purchased horses and wagons to take us on our way westward. Our point of destination, when we left England, was Richland County, Ohio, for we had friends and acquaintances who had come over before us, and had written to their relatives in England concerning the goodly land and pleasant homes they had found there. We immediately left Philadelphia, and came to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and continuing our journey to Beaver county, in that state, which lies on the Ohio river, we were satisfied with the country and the cheapness of the land. As we were exceedingly tired of traveling, we concluded to make a halt there, which we did. Cottom and I bought 206 acres in partnership, more or less-rather more I reckon-at $5.50 an acre, on the Ohio river. It was covered with primeval forest growth. This farm was within 20 miles of Pittsburgh, and about one mile from the flourishing town of Economy. We went to work felling the trees, and erected a cabin, and then started in to make a clearing on our new purchase. Of course, it was entirely new work to us Englishmen, but we were young and vigorous and determined to hew us out a home in the wilderness. In about six months I bought Cottom's half, and he purchased 250 acres back from the river about three miles, for which he paid $700. I went on clearing, and making improvements, and lived on the property between four and five years, when I sold it for $10.00 an acre. I then bought the best farm between that point and Pittsburgh on the river, from Esquire Knox. It contained 150 acres, for which I paid $1,112. Fifty acres were already cleared on it. We lived on this farm about 26 years.
Since coming to America, we had born to us, seven children - Samuel, Mary, Sarah, Joseph, Benjamin, Manasseh, and Edward. William, Manasseh and Edward died young. All the others are still in the land of the living, married, and all are raising families, except Benjamin (we'll assume he was a bachelor) and are scattered in Pennsylvania, Iowa and Ohio. They are all doing well, and are tolerably prosperous in their worldly affairs.
After selling out my Knox farm, in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, I came to Sciota (Ohio, Reuben Musgrave and several others were born in Sciota) bought two farms in that county and finally settled down in Marion township, right on the edge of Pike county, adjoining Jackson and Scioto counties. We came here in 1852. I intend to give this farm, on which I now reside, to my daughter Sarah, who married Thomas Kirkpatrick in 1850. We old folks now live with them and are enjoying a reasonable degree of happiness in our declining years. They have four daughters - Winifred Harriet, Mary Jane, Eliza Alice and Charlotte Josephine. They have buried three- two sons and a daughter - Benjamin, John James and Elizabeth Maria.
Soon after my settlement in Beaver county, there was a little gathering near where Economy now stands, consisting of two Englishmen beside myself, two colored men, and a good old Dutch woman, in a prayer meeting. All the others offered up prayer to God, and I was called upon to do the same. It was something new to me. But thank God, my heart was touched and I was able to see my lost condition. All I was enabled to say was about what the other penitent said, who standing afar off, offered up that effectual fervent petition and said "God be merciful to me a sinner". I was convicted, from that moment I was converted, and soon connected myself with the Methodist Episcopal Church to which I still adhere. And I thank God, for He has been good to me and mine. He has blessed us with spiritual and temporal prosperity, and has showered upon us all the blessings we can enjoy in this life.
Coming to this country almost an entire stranger to its government and civil institutions, I studied before giving my adhesion to any political party, and being naturalized, allied myself with the great and good organization known as the Whig party. I acted and voted with it til it was dissolved, when I naturally slid into the Republican Party. I voted twice for Abraham Lincoln for President, and once for Ulysses S. Grant, and expect to again, if my life is spared me til the ides of November.
By reference to the date of our marriage - April 9, 1815 - it will be seen that my wife and I have lived together upwards of 57 years - a period so lengthened as to make it almost an exception. Yet, we have lived happily together, and having been so long united, it is not likely that we shall be long divided when the Angel of Death summons the one or the other to go before."
THE PIKE COUNTY REPUBLICAN CORRESPONDENT SAYS THAT MR. MUSGRAVE was induced to come to this county, because he thought it contained more room than England did, and that a man had greater opportunities here than there, and he was quite right. He seems to be perfectly satisfied with his venture, for he has succeeded in accumulating a fair share of this world's goods. He has done it by industry and economy, which every man should be willing to exercise. We judge that he has led a blameless life, and brought up a family of children to follow in the footsteps of their illustrious predecessor. ID: I24625 Name: Francis COTTOM Surname: COTTOM Given Name: Francis Sex: M Birth: 1794 in England Death: BEF 1860 in PA _UID: C22A0EA81A3BC54A85DD42C40F84A62CD3C2 Note: DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM COTTOM William Cottam Abt 1647 in of Sutton Cum Lound, Notts., Eng ÙR+Elizabeth Cottom Abt 1651 in of Sutton Cum Lound, Notts., Eng ÙR.2 William Cottom ÙR..+Mary Hays m: April 14, 1702 in Laneham, Nottingham, England Father: Dennis Hays Mother: Mrs. Dennis Hays ÙRÙR3 Eleanor Cottom ÙRÙR3 George Cottom ÙRÙR3 Elizabeth Cottom ÙRÙR3 Francis Cottom ÙRÙR.+Elizabeth Fox m: April 04, 1738 in Rampton, Nottingham, England Father: Robert Fox Mother: Mary Clark ÙRÙR..4 John Cottom ÙRÙR..4 William Cottom ÙRÙR..4 Mary Cottom ÙRÙR..4 Elizabeth Cottom ÙRÙR..4 Sarah Cottom ÙRÙR..4 Thomas Cottom ÙRÙR..4 Francis Cottom b: 1794 England d: Before 1860 in Pennsylvania ÙRÙRÙR+ Mary Musgrave b: March 1793 in England d: August 08, 1870 in Illinois m: January 15, 1815 Father: Simon Musgrave Mother: Ann(e) Priddon Buried in Cottom Cemetery Perry County, IL
source: "Margery" Change Date: 26 Jun 2003 at 18:35:50
Marriage 1 Mary MUSGRAVE b: Mar 1793 in England Children Simon William COTTOM b: 17 Mar 1817 in England from the shawcross GEDCOM file (Rootsweb.com)
) Master: Captain Ferguson Rigging: Ship; single deck with beams; sheathed in copper Tonnage: 228 tons Construction: Philadelphia; vessel 11 years old Owners: Hollingsworth Draught under load: 15 feet Port of survey: Liverpool Voyage: sailed for Philadelphia
More About Francis Cottom (Cottam): Christening: 05 Feb 1794, Frodingham, Lincoln, England.16 Immigration: 17 Aug 1820, Philadelphia on ship Jane from Liverpool Captain Ferguson. Property: 1820, bought 206 acres in Economy Beaver Penn with James Musgrave.
More About Francis Cottom (Cottam) and Mary Musgrave: Marriage: 15 Jan 1815, Welton England.17
Children of Francis Cottom (Cottam) and Mary Musgrave are:
Ann (Cottam), b. 1816, Welton Linconshire England, d. date unknown, New Sewickley Beaver PA.
Francis Cottom (Cottam) (b. 1794, d. 01 Dec 1852)
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