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CHAPTER V. COTTON FAMILY LAND

[6] Page 28--_Plymouth Memories of an Octogenarian_, p. 29.

[7] Page 28--In an unrelated matter, but of interest, the town records indicate that Josiah Cotton had a black slave in 1732 named Quamony. Theophilus Cotton had a slave in 1751 named Phillis. _Plymouth Memories of an Octogenarian_, p. 20, Davis estimates that in 1740 there were at least fifty slaves, all ages.