Coat of arms for the Cheshire Coltons from Burke's General Armoury :-

Motto:  Never Despair
Crest : "A boar passant argent, armed and bristled or, vulned in the shoulder gules"  
(a silver walking boar with gold tusks and bristles, wounded in the shoulder/neck)
Coat of arms : "Sable, a saltire engrailed between four crosses crosslet or"  
(a black shield formed with edges like a holly leaf, with an X-shaped cross separating four gold crosses with crosses on their ends)

Origin of Colton:

From an old English personal name 'cola', or an old Norse 'koli', meaning enclosure, or settlement

From Colton (Lancashire, Norfolk, Somerset, Staffordshire, Yorkshire)
A habitation name from a place called Bolton

The town at the neck of the hill, from Col, the neck of a hill, and ton, a town. Caltuinn, Gaelic, hazel.

Coltons in Historical Records:

Charles Caleb Colton 1780-1852, English clergyman, sportsman, wine merchant, author of "Lacon" 1820-1822 - two volumes of aphorisms. 

Walter Colton 1797-1851 American Congressional Clergyman, author and U.S. Navy chaplain 1830-1851

Thomas, Pagan de Colton 1176 Staffordshire, 1214 Yorkshire

Roger Coltum 1371 Lancashire

The International Genealogy Index (http://www.familysearch.org) has over 4,000 records of British Colton Births, Christenings, Marriages and Deaths (typically prior to the mid-1800s). Approximately a quarter of these are from Nottinghamshire and over half come from Notts, Derbys, Lincs & Yorks. 
Some of the earliest are:

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