Michael Cotton
Michael Cullen Cotton was a politician in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly during the early colonial period. Cotton served as collector of customs from 1828 to 1834 replacing John Campbell. In 1829, he became a member of the newly extended Legislative Council. In 1833, he exchanged positions with John George Nathaniel Gibbes who was the Collector of Customs in the major East Anglian port of Great Yarmouth. On 19 April 1836 he married Jane Mary Weller at St John's, Hamstead.