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The Ancestral Home of the Cottens and the
Moores
- Mulberry Grove built ca 1758 by Arthur Cotten,
remodeled 1830's by Dr. Godwin Cotten Moore
ca 1870
the house
- over the years
- the interior
- the graveyard
The Mulberry Grove property saw many
landscape changes.
Sheds and even
fences being built added to the areas historical aspects.
the family portraits
"Legends of St John's Chapel" by John Wheeler
Moore
the water oak of Mulberry Grove
- pictures of the
oak
the lines of Dr. Godwin Cotten Moore
the residents:
- Arthur Cotten 1716 -1789 and Elizabeth Rutland
ca1720 -
Children: Cullen, Marinah,
Sarah, Helen,
Silvia, Jesse, Godwin, Caroline
- Godwin Cotten 1760 -1830 and Sarah Browne
1762 -1833
Children: Elizabeth and Esther
- Esther Cotten 1782 - 1854 and James Wright Moore
1773 -1815
- Godwin Cotten Moore 1806 -1880 and Julia M Wheeler
1814 -1887
- William Edward Moore 1847 - 1920 and Annie Tait 1854 - 1913
pre- Mulberry Grove
the Cotten family
- John Cotten and Martha Godwin
Children: John, Patience,
Martha, William,
Anne, Mary,
Samuel,
Susannah, Alexander,
Joseph,
Arthur, Priscilla,
James and
Thomas
of the Black Water in VA
and Bertie Co, NC
- John Cotten and Ann of Queens Ck, VA
- possible ancestry
the Moore family of Nansemond Co VA
- James Wright Moore
- William Edward Moore
- William Moore
the John Browne family of Cutawisky Marsh
the James Rutland family of Bertie Co
the William Godwin family of Isle of Wight Co, VA
the Williams family