Ann_Cotton_(colonial_Virginian)

Ann Cotton (colonial Virginian)

Ann Cotton (colonial Virginian)

Colonial Virginian

Ann Cotton (fl. 1650s–1670s) was the author of a personal account of Bacon's Rebellion. Her birth and death dates are unknown. She was married to John Cotton. The couple owned a plantation in Queen's Creek, Virginia. Her account of Bacon's Rebellion is in the form of a letter written in 1676 and published in its original form in 1804 in the Richmond Enquirer under the title An account of our late troubles in Virginia.[1][2]

In 2018 the Virginia Capitol Foundation announced that Cotton's name would be on the Virginia Women's Monument's glass Wall of Honor.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    "Ann Cotton (fl. 1650s–1670s)". Encyclopedia Virginia. Retrieved 12 April 2022.
  2. [2]
    Cotton, Anne (1835). "An account of our late troubles in Virginia". HathiTrust Digital Library. Printed by P. Force. Retrieved 12 April 2022.
  3. [3]
    "Wall of Honor". Virginia Women's Monument Commission. Retrieved 12 April 2022.

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