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I keep getting little bits of added information about just where Nottingham was. I think there were several confusing factors. First, there was a sort of tug-of-war over the so-called Nottingham Lots between William Penn of PA and Lord Baltimore of MD, each claiming it for his own colony. Then in the 1760's the Mason-Dixon line was surveyed which fixed the boundary at its present location. There are today two townships, West Nottingham and East Nottingham, in the SW corner of Chester County, PA, and a village of West Nottingham, which is just north of the state line on U.S. 1.
However, I recently learned that in the late 1700's, well after the line was established, there were also a West Nottingham Hundred and an East Nottingham Hundred in Cecil County, MD ("hundred" apparently being Maryland's equivalent of "township") Therefore, I conclude that the Nottinghams were in fact split by the Mason-Dixon line, with parts in both states.
I suspect that there is probably a further complication. The people that we are talking about were Quakers, and the records are taken mostly from Quaker meeting minutes. If a family lived on one side of the line and belonged to a Quaker Meeting that was located on the other side, the records would probably indicate the state or colony that the meeting was located in.
The 1790 census of Cecil County, MD, shows two Joseph Coulson families (one Jr.) in West Nottingham Hundred. And a 1795 map of Cecil County has a location marked "Colsons" which I assume indicates a property belonging to a Colson (Coulson) family. It appears to be a short distance west of the present town of Rising Sun.
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