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Farewell Benefit, Birch & Cotton's Minstrels, May 13, 1862
Programme, farewell benefit, Birch & Cotton's Minstrels
The Jockey Hat and Feather
As sung by Ben Cotton
Ben Cotton & Sam Sharpley's Minstrels
Programme: Ben Cotton & Sam Sharpley's Minstrels
Detail, Ben Cotton's "California Minstrels"
Charles Nelson Cotton (left), Ben Cotton (right), Ben Cotton Jr., (standing)
Ben Cotton's California Minstrels
A composite image made from a pair of postcard-size studio photographs. The composite offers a panoramic shot of these various entertainers.
May 1, 1865, Massachusetts State Census: B.A. Cotton
Listed by the enumerator were the following persons: Ben & Rebecca Cotton; Ben's mother, Eliza B. Cotton (62); Ben's mother-in-law, Betsy Russell (62); and four children: Lizzie Cotton (16), Isadora Cotton (14), Eunice Cotton (12), and Ben Cotton…
Ham-fat
"As sung by Ben Cotton." Also includes: Poor old Joe. American Song Sheets, Series 1, Volume 4
Abraham's daughter: Music sheet pg. 2
Notes
As sung by Ben Cotton
Attributed to Septimus Winner in: Biographical dictionary of American music by Charles Eugene Claghorn, p. 480.