_Cottons of Fowey._--A family of "Cotton" was settled at Fowey, in
Cornwall, in the seventeenth century. The first name of which I have any
notice is that of Abraham Cotton, who married at Fowey in 1597. They
bore for their arms, Sable, a chevron between three cotton-hanks, Or a
crescent for difference: crest, a Cornish chough holding in the beak
a cotton-hank proper. William Cotton, mayor of Plymouth in 1671, was
probably one of this family. The name is not Cornish; and these Cottons
had without doubt migrated at no distant period from some other part of
the kingdom. Any information relating to the family or its antecedents
will be very gratefully received by