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COTTRILL HISTORY
The earliest ancestor known is Andrew Cockerell born about 1635 in
England, who came to America sometime in the early fall 1656.(Records of Northumberland
County, VA) There9s a record in St. Stephens Parish, Northumberland County, VA. of the
marriage of Andrew Cockerell to Angel Corbell (who married, 2) a Mr. Lamprey. We know of
two sons Andrew and John. Andrew died @2 1 Oct. 1674. Administration was granted to his
wife. The boys were young. Angel preferred to change the name from Cockerell to Cottrell
and raised her sons using that name.
Angel was the daughter of Clement and Angel Corbell, who came to America 20 May 1653.
There were 3 siblings with her--Gabriel, John, Anne.
Son Andrew died 1727, childless; leaving his property to the children of his brother,
John, and to his sister in law, Elizabeth Cottrell. She was John's second wife. His first
wife, and mother of all his children, was Lucretia Neale, daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth
(Holland) Neale.
Daniel Neale was born 1642 in Northumberland County, VA. He was the son of Lt. Daniel
and Elinor Neale who came to America from Ireland 1653-4 bringing with them four sons,
Daniel, Christopher, Robert and Charles. His wife was Elizabeth Holland, daughter of
Daniel and Joyce Holland. Daniel, the father of Lucretia, T 6 Oct 1700. Thru her mother,
Elizabeth Holland, Lucretia inherited a great deal of property. in Northumberland County,
VA and in the colony of Maryland. Lt. Daniel Neale is also an ancestor of the Civil War
Confederate General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson.
John and Lucretia (Neale) had the 9 children. Their son, also an Andrew (3rd one
mentioned) was born about 1710. There are various records concerning him in Prince Georges
County, MD, across the Potomac from Virginia. He was charged with selling
"spirits" without a license, and later with "breach of the Sabbath".
He sold his property and moved to Frederick County, Maryland, where he died about 1769. We
do not know his wife. There were 5 children--
John, b. 28 Jan 1732 Northumberland Co. VA.
Lucretia, b. 3 Mar 1734 Northumberland Co. VA
*Andrew, b. 1736 Northumberland Co. VA
Samuel, b. ~.1740 Prince Georges County, MD
William b. ? Prince Georges County, MD.
His sons, Andrew and Samuel, were in the group of 5 men who first claimed property in
what is now Clarksburg, West Virginia. ("History of Harrison County, W Va" by
Hammond.) Andrew was killed in a quarrel over salt by a man named Simpson prior to 1781..
His children were given guardians by the court. Our ancestor was his son, Andrew. (the 5th
Andrew mentioned). Samuel was kidnapped and killed by Indians
Andrew's wife was believed to have been named Elizabeth. There is an Elizabeth Cottrell
as head of the household in the 1790 census of Virginia. Their children were:
William, b. 1760 Frederick Co. MD m. Rachel Hughes 25 May 1784
John, b.1763 MD, m. Elizabeth Achor4 Jan 1789, d. 9 July 1850 DAR
Thomas, b. 1766 Fayette Co. PA, d @1823. M. Catherine Achors 30 May 1791
(children of Andrew Cottrill of Harrison County (W)VA continued)
*Andrew "full age in Aug 1790 50 born 1769. d. July 1813 Harrison Co. (W)VA m,
Mary Dave 21 Nov 1793 (This is the 6th Andrew)
Elizabeth, m. John Nutter,Jr. 2 Oct 1788
Esther, m. ______ Miller 11 Aug 1811 (born right before her dad was killed?)
Andrew Cottrill, b. @ 1769, married Mary Dave (Davis), daughter of Owen Davis, a
Revolution veteran. Apparently Owen was a captain of militia who participated in a meeting
of the militia captains at Catfish Camp 1777 where the problem under consideration was
what to do for defense against the Indians who had been aroused by the English.
Their oldest son, Henry Cottrill, married Rebecca Dailey. She was the daughter of James
Thomas Dailey, born in Ireland. His father, Marvin, was a ship's captain. On a voyage
1778, when Thomas was about ten years old, Marvin was lost at sea during a storm. His
wife, Catherine and son Thomas were aboard. They came to America to live with relatives.
Two of Henry's siblings almost married into the Dailey family.
Henry and Rebecca moved to Lee Township, Athens County, Ohio in 1824. Their third child
was Nimrod, who married Tirzah McClain in 1855. Tirzah is a Biblical name--one of five
daughters who the LORD said could inherit from their father since there were no sons.
(First step toward women's rights). Num 16:32; 27:1; 36:11.
The McClain family has been traced to Charles McClain who in 1751 married Lydia Cheeseman,
daughter of Joseph, in Monmouth County, New Jersey. The McClains were Scotch-Irish, known
to go with a Bible in one hand and a rifle in the other. Charles' son, Abijah was with
Morgan's Raiders during the Revolution; Thomas, younger, went with George Rogers Clark to
Illinois; John, possibly the youngest, was a Revolutionary War pensioner because at the
age of 15 he helped defend the community in which he lived. Thomas married Mary Pew and
named his first son, Abij ah. We have Abij ah's family Bible, he was the father of Tirzah,
and grandfather of Thomas Henry Cottrill, my grandfather.
Thomas Henry was born in Meigs County, Ohio. The story my mother told me is that at age 19
he went to work for Thomas Gemi son Cline, a well-to-do farmer, who had one daughter,
still single at 26. Her name was Emily Jane Cline. The only girl in a family of 7 boys.
She had her own pony cart when a child. Thomas Henry and Emily Jane moved to Butler,
Pennsylvania about 1898 when they already had some grandchildren. My mother said her dad
was a farmer, but he also built churches, and sometimes was gone for a period while a
church was being built. He was a temperance advocate; mother said her brothers were not
allowed to bring beer into the house.
Thomas Gemison Cline was a character. . . lied about his age to serve in the Civil War
with his oldest son, Lemuel. After his first wife (Betsey Woods) died, he married again at
age 69
to a 28-year-old woman and had six children; four of whom are younger than my mother. I
have wondered if the reason Emily Jane and husband moved to Pennsylvania was because she
was upset about her father marrying a woman who was 15 years younger than she.
The first Cline in America was Johann Klein, a Hessian soldier captured by the Americans
when Washington crossed the Delaware on Christmas eve and captured Trenton. Johann was
taken to prison in Frederick, MD where he took the oath of allegiance to our country.
Afier the war he settled in what became Lewis County, West Virginia. Two of his sons
married into the McCann family; cousins, daughters of Patrick McCann, known as "Hero
of the Border" because of his many encounters with the Indian allies of the British,
and his brother, Daniel. . Joseph Cline, our ancestor, married Ruth McCann, daughter of
Daniel. They are the parents of Thomas Gemison Cline. .
The history would not be complete without mentioning the Klein family tradition that the
name had originally been Pettit (French for " small", as Klein is German). and
that they were Huguenots forced to flee France after the Edict of Nantes 1685.
Written by: Doris M. Rawlings
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