I represent Radford L. Cotton. I appear on the 1824 list of West Florida Land Claimants, indicating I lived on and cultivated land in West Florida between 1819 and 1821. Dr. B.F. Riley’s History of Conecuh County [AL] refers to me as “Rev. Radford Cotton” who was an early settler in Fort Crawford. The 1820 Alabama State Census places me in Conecuh County that year, but by 1830, my family and I are residents of Escambia County, Florida. I served as the first postmaster of the Escambia County Post Office in 1827, and in 1828 I was given a five-year charge from the Territory of Florida to operate Cotton’s Ferry over the Escambia River.
Radford L. Cotton
| Sources | 12, 131 [The Evergreen Courant, 8 OCT 1931, p. 2] |
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