Ann Cotton (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
[edit]- ^ "Ann Cotton (fl. 1650s–1670s)". Encyclopedia Virginia. Retrieved 12 April 2022.
- ^ Cotton, Anne (1835). "An account of our late troubles in Virginia". HathiTrust Digital Library. Printed by P. Force. Retrieved 12 April 2022.
- ^ "Wall of Honor". Virginia Women's Monument Commission. Retrieved 12 April 2022.
Further reading
[edit]- John and Ann Cotton, of "Queen's Creek," Virginia by Jay B. Hubbell American Literature Vol. 10, No. 2 (May, 1938), Duke University Press
