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1756, Sept. 29. Gershom Mott, Jr., surety, on the application of Sam1 Tutthull to keep a public house.
1761, Mch. II, and Mch. 10, 1762. Gershom Mott petitioned for a license to keep a public house.
1761, Dec. 16. Gershom Mott and Jacob Ford, Esq., executors of David Wheeler, deceased, vs Abel Hathaway, administrator of Jonathan? Hathaway.
1762, July 6. James Jauncey vs Gershom Mott.
1762, December. John Ray vs Gershom Mott. Debt; non est; and vice versa.
1763, July. Hendrik Ovdenaarde vs Gershom Mott. Debt £roo; non est.
1764. Benjamin Howel vs Gershom Mott. Case £200; non est.
1765, December. Executors of Alex" Eagles vs Gersohm Mott. Debt. £132; non est.
Issue 107 Gershom Mott, Junior. 108 Joseph Mott [?]
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39 ASHER MOTT, son of Gershom Mott, 8, born June 27, 1704; died Mch. 5, 1761; married Deborah, daughter of James and Abigail (Hicks) Tallman.
Issue
109 Asher Mott; died 1750.
IIO Abigail Mott; married, 1763; William Wilson.
III Mary Mott; married, 1773, Arthur Howell.
II2 Huldah Mott; died 1825.
113 Sarah Mott
40 JAMES MOTT, son of Gershom Mott, 8, born Apr. 5, 1707; died Feb. 11th, 1787; married, first, Mary, daughter of Obadiah and Alice (Ashton) Holmes, December, 1734, who died Oct., 1749; married, second, Amey Herbert, by license dated May 8, 1752, who died Oct., 1754. She was the daughter of Safety Borden, of Bordentown, and married, first, William Maghee and had by him:
James Maghee, born 1728.
Safety Maghee, born 173I.
Catharine Maghee, born 173I. (sic) William Maghee, born 1738.
She married, second, Daniel Herbert, and third, James Mott.
Issue by first wife
II4 Sarah Mott
115 Huldah Mott; married Joseph Saltar, of Shrewsbury.
116 James Mott; died 1823.
107 Gershom Mott
118 John Mott
Asher Taylor gave also "Mary and a daughter, who married Shore Stevens."
Aug. 22, 1775. Commission from Provincial Congress.
James Mott, Esq., appointed Capt. of a Company in 2nd Regiment Foot in Monmouth Co., whereof David Brearley, Esq., is Colonel. Cherry Hall Papers
James Mott was appointed 2nd Major of Monmouth Militia, October, 1775.
Deputy to the Provincial Congress and Council of Safety from Monmouth Co., June, 1776. Resigned his commission in the Militia, 1776.
Inventory of Personal Estate of James Mott, of Middletown, Mch. 2, 1787, amounted to £932:8:11, and among the items of interest are:
2 silver Table spoons
£ 1-2-6
Peter, a negro aged 67
Phillis, a negro aged 67
Oliver (man) a negro aged 36
50-0-0
Peter, a negro aged 21
80-0-0
Betty 34
45-00
Esther with her child
65-0-0
Negro boy Samuel
15-0-0
Negro boy Isaac
16-0-0
Thefe are to Certyfy that at a certain Munmouth Court which to the beft of my memory was laft April term that at the House of Jofeph Morfords and in the Barr Roame Near the foot of the Stares Some Difcoarfe Broek out Betwixt me and James Mott as adminiftrator to the Estate of Jofeph Holmes Defd to which I mentioned that I underftood Thare was a Judgment againft Uriah Carle at the Sute of Said adminiftrators and that I underftood Said Carl complained of being Ronged I alfo aded that Said Carel would Lay under a
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Difadvantage of Coming to Juftice after Judgment went againft Him by His Not Entering a Plea in time or words Nearly to that Porpose.
to which Mr Mott Reply'd that He Could Not tell How the matter waf but waf willing Said Carel Should Have Juftice Done Him and that Even after Execution if anything appeared in favour of Said Carel Said Mott would alow it
the above was the Subftance of the Difcoarce as Near as I can Remember which I will at any time Declare under oath if Required.
ye 13th February 1766
ROBt CAMPBELL fr. Cherry Hall Papers. November ye 20 1755
Bordentown
Honoured Father I Send you thefe Line To Let you know my Prefent Circumstances. we are all in good health at Prefent Through mercy and hope these may find you in the same-Being the greateft Blesfing we Can Enjoy in this life god grant that we may Implore his goodnefs for so Doing he still Continuing to feed us with his good Creature and Refrefhing us by our natural Sleep in Peace and Quietnefs while our fellow Creatures upon our fronteers about us are suffering the most inhuman Deaths immaginable By our Cruel Enemies and Savages the Lord Being now about to threaten us with the Sword and Earthquakes which god may grant may be for our good-Dear father not having an opertunity To Converfe with you By word of mouth I muft Con- clude to do it by letters and firft of all I pray that god of his infinite mercy and goodnefs would give me a heart to lead a Righteous holy and godly life here in this Prefent world in all my affairs both Spirituall and Temporall and next I humbly afk your Confent To my maching my Self with a Perfon whom I and all my friends Efteems to Bee worthy of me the young woman is William Folwells Daufhter mary that lives at william Pottses it is Like you may not know her at Prefent But when you Do I hope you will own her To be your Ever Loving and Dutifull Daufhtr I hope you will favour me with an anfwer By the first oppertunity the Time is fixed Between us By the Confent of you and other friends that is concern'd in the affair if nothing happens more than we expect the week Before Chriftmas.
from your
So I Conclude with mine and all our friends Tendereft Love and Effections To you and your family Ever Loving and Dutifull Son SAFETY MEGHEE
·
P. S. Please To Remember in Particular my Love to Sifter and kind Respects to huldah and Miss Sally Holmes.
Cherry Hall Papers.
Letter of Safety Meghee to James Mott, Middletown Point, Aug. 31, 1757. Dear father-
"My brother Billy is dead & Buryed yesterday" etc. "Our child is poorly & Mrs. Borden is very poorly but we are in hopes will recover"
Loving & Dutiful Son SAFETY MAGHEE
41 HULDAH MOTT, daughter of Gershom Mott, 8, born Oct. 31, 1709; died Sept. 4, 1784; married, Dec. 7, 1731, Samuel Holmes, born Apr. 17, 1704, O. S .; died Feb. 23, 1760, and had ten children. See Holmes Family.
"Jan. 13, 1731/2 Huldah Mott Marryed to Samuel Holmes" (From Mott Diary).
42 EDMOND MOTT, son of Richbell Mott, of Hempstead, 9. On Hempstead Census, 1698.
1741, 4. 6mo. [August.] Edmond Mott made his will; proved June 13, 1744, and mentioned: Wife, Catharine, £200, and the use of his estate to bring up his children.
Daughter, Margaret, £170, when she is ten years old.
Son, Richbell Mott, one-half of his farm, when of age, with its buildings and improvements.
The remaining half of his farm to be divided between his sons, Edmond and John, when they arrive at age. Executors: his wife, Catharine, and his esteemed friends and kinsmen, Joseph Mott and William Mott, both of Hempstead.
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He married Catharine, daughter of Capt. John and Sybil (Ray) Sands, born about 1700. Austin's Rhode Island Dictionary.
Issue
119 Margaret Mott
120 Richbell Mott, born 3, 6mo., 1728; died 1758, without male issue.
I21 Edmond Mott, born 25, 8mo., 1730; mariner; married Oct. 13, 1753, Deborah Sands; no issue.
122 John Mott, born 1, 8mo., 1732. From Westbury, L. I., Friends' Records. Of these children Margaret was a legatee of her grandmother, Elizabeth Mott, in 1737, but was omitted in her father's will, 1741, wherefore she probably died young.
Edmond Mott probably died unmarried and non compos.
John Mott died, in 1781, leaving a will dated 28, 2 mo., 1773; proved Mch. 16, 1781, in which he styled himself as of Cowneck; alluded to his brother, Edmond, as in a delirious and unsettled condition of mind, but who was to receive his estate in the event of his recovery, with remainder to the testator's niece, Margaret, wife of Melancthon Smith. Executors: his kinsmen, Richard Sands and Adam Mott, and among the witnesses were Stephen Mott and Elizabeth Mott.
44 RICHARD MOTT, son of Richbell Mott, 9, was born about 1710; died 15, 8mo., 1743; married, 26, Imo., 1741, Sarah, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Underhill) Pearsall of Hempstead born 6, 11mo., 1714; died gmo., 1800. His widow married Richard Alsop in 1747. 1743, 10, 8mo. Will of Richard Mott, of Hempstead, weak and indisposed; proved Oct. 24, 1743, mentioned:
Wife, Sarah, £roo, in lieu of dower, and one-third of the remainder of his estate.
The other portion of which is ordered put at interest till his son is of age, but should he die during his minority, then his share is to go to Richbell, Edmond and John, sons of my brother, Edmond Mott.
Executors: wife, Sarah, his father-in-law, Thomas Pearsall, his brother, Edmund Mott, and his kinsman, Richard Thorne, of Great Neck, Hempstead.
Issue
123 James Mott, born 8, 8mo., 1742; married, in 1765, Mary, daughter of Samuel and Ann (Carpenter) Underhill, of Oyster Bay.
53 WILLIAM MOTT, son of William Mott, II, died Mch. 25, 1786. His wife died November, 1780. He married, 6, 8, 1742, Elizabeth, daughter of Mary Allen, widow of Henry Allen. Mary Allen was of Hempstead, and made her will 1746; proved 1747, and mentioned, among others, her daughter, Elizabeth, wife of William Mott, whom she made one of her execu- tors. Thompson's Long Island, Vol. ii, p. 57, says he married Elizabeth Valentine.
1735. William Mott, of Flushing, was a witness.
1752. William Mott, of Marmaroneck (?), was one of the executors of John Sutton, of Marmaroneck; he also held lands at Cowneck.
1760. William Mott was an executor of Tristam Dodge.
1782, I, 12mo. Will of William Mott, when he was "far advanced in age"; proved Sept. 13, 1786, mentioned:
Sons, William, Samuel, John, Richard, Joseph and Benjamin, to whom he bequeathed his estate, and to whom he willed his farm, at Great Neck, etc., they to pay his son, Henry Mott, and his daughter, Elizabeth, wife of David Underhill, and to his daughter, Hannah Mott, amounts equalling their shares. Some of the children were yet minors.
Executors: son-in-law, David Underhill, and sons, William, John and Henry Mott.
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Issue
124 William Mott, born Jan. 8, 1743. [8, Imo., 1743, Westbury Records.] Left issue.
125 Hannah Mott, born 4, 6, 1744; died 15, 3, 1750. Westbury Records.
126 James Mott, born 29, 6, 1745. Westbury Records.
127 Elizabeth Mott, born 5, 2, 1747. Westbury Records. Married David Underhill. 128 John Mott, born 17, 2, 1749; died 7, 3mo., 1750. Westbury Records.
129 Samuel Mott, born 16, 12, 1750. Westbury Records. Died Apr. 1, 1791; left issue.
130 Hannah Mott, born 18, 4, 1753. Westbury Records.
131 John Mott, 2nd., born 24, 6, 1755. Westbury Records. Died, without issue, Nov. 11, 1823.
132 Henry Mott, born 31, 5, [May] 1757. Westbury Records. Died, 1840, leaving issue.
133 Richard Mott, born 20, 8, 1759. Westbury Records.
134 Joseph Mott, born II, I, 1762. Left issue.
135 Benjamin Mott, born 19, 3, 1765. Left issue.
55 ELIZABETH MOTT, daughter of Adam Mott, 12, the younger son, was born 31, 5mo., 1733; died 13, 9mo., 1783; married, 5, 3mo., 1755, John, son of Samuel and Mary (Fry) Willis, a minister among Friends, born 8, 2mo., 1734; died 4, 3mo., 1789. Her children are traced by Mr. T. C. Cornell, in "The Mott Ancestry." John Willis resided at Oyster Bay.
1757. She received a silver spoon and porringer, in the will of her grandmother, Abigail Willetts.
Issue
Adam Willis, born 1757, 13, 7mo .; died 9, 3mo., 1758. Samuel Willis, born 1759, 7, 3mo. Phebe Willis, born 1761, 5, 4mo.
56 ADAM MOTT, son of Adam Mott, 12, the younger son, was born 10, 10mo., 1734; died 18, 12mo., 1790; married, first, 5, 3mo., 1755, Sarah, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Fry) Willis, born 14, 7mo., 1736; died 10, Imo., 1783; married, second, 5, Imo., 1785, Abigail, daughter of David Batty, of South Hempstead, born 1733; died 10, 12mo., 1807. T. C. Cornell.
Adam Mott was of Cow Neck.
1757. Adam Mott received a silver spoon and a silver porringer, in the will of his grand- mother, Abigail Willetts.
1758. Adam Mott, of Cow Neck, was an executor of the will of Samuel Pearce.
1760. He was executor of the will of Hannah, widow of William Mott.
He succeeded to the homestead and the Eastern half of the farm.
Issue
136 Elizabeth Mott, born 19, 7mo., 1755; died 10, 4mo., 1782.
137 Daughter Mott, born 28, 10, 1758; died 30, 10mo., 1758.
138 Lydia Mott, born 24, IImo., 1759.
139 Adam Mott, born II, Iomo., 1762.
140 Samuel Mott, born 29, 9mo., 1773.
57 STEPHEN MOTT, son of Adam Mott, 12, the younger son, was born 1, 2mo., 1736; died II, IImo., 1813; married, 6, 10mo., 1762, Amy, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Fry) Willis, born 27, 3mo., 1738; died 10, IImo., 1822.
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He succeeded to the Western part of the farm where he built a house, occupied to-day by his descendants in the third generation. T. C. Cornell.
1757. He, like his brother Adam, received a silver spoon and porringer, in the will of his grandmother, Abigail Willetts.
58 ADAM MOTT, son of Charles Mott, 13, born prior to 1716. He resided at Cow Neck and may have married Elizabeth Smith.
Issue
14I Jacob Mott; eldest son.
I42 Daniel Mott
143 Jonathan Mott
living in 1748.
144 Marianah Mott
59 AMOS MOTT, son of Charles Mott, 13, resided, at Oyster Bay, in 1745-6.
1743. He was a witness at Hempstead.
1745-6, Mch. 20. He made his will; proved Mch. 29, 1746, in which he mentioned:
Brother, Benjamin Mott, to whom he gave all his lands, and in default of his having issue, then to Jacob Mott, eldest son of his brother, Adam Mott.
Nephew, Joseph Mott, eldest son of his brother, Charles Mott, five shillings.
Brother, Benjamin Mott, the use of his personal estate for life, and after him to Jacob, eldest son of his brother, Adam Mott.
Appointed his brother, Adam Mott, and beloved friend, Thomas, son of Samuel Jackson, deceased, executors.
62 GERSHOM MOTT, son of Charles Mott, 13, born prior to 1698; of Oyster Bay, 1727, where he sold his farm in 1736, and moved away. Was of New Hempstead, Orange County, N. Y.
1758, Aug. 7. He made his will; proved Mch. 2, 1759, and mentioned:
Eldest son, Solomon Mott, "my gun for his birth right, being my heir at law, and having had his portion before."
Son, Gershom Mott.
Daughters, Molly Lott and Elizabeth Clark, each, 5 shillings.
Son, Charles Mott, 5 shillings. They having had their portions before.
Grandson, Gershom, son of Peter and Molly Lott, 5 shillings, when he is twenty-one.
Wife, Ruth, one third of his movable estate, with succession thereto, to his son, Benjamin; £14, out- right, and £6, yearly.
Son, Charles, all the money due him from Absalom Little, of Lewiston, Penn.
Son, Benjamin, £20, and his house, lands, and land rights in Orange County, and the residue of his estate.
Executors: son, Benjamin, and Jacob Halstead.
Issue
145 Solomon Mott, of Kingwood, N. J.
146 Gershom Mott, of Kingwood, N. J., and later of Baltimore, where he died 1772.
I47 Molly Mott
148 Elizabeth Mott
149 Charles Mott
150 Benjamin Mott
64 BENJAMIN MOTT, son of Charles Mott, 13, was of Oyster Bay.
1748, Sept. 20. He made his will; proved Sept. 29, 1748, and was, apparently, unmarried, and mentioned:
.
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Nephew, Samuel, son of his brother, Charles Mott, deceased, £200.
Nephew, Silvanus, the sum of £50.
To Daniel, Jonathan, Jacob and Marianah, the four children of his brother, Adam Mott, £50.
Nephew, Joseph Mott, son of his brother, Charles Mott, eight shillings.
His lands in Orange County to be sold, and the proceeds given to his brother, Adam, and his nephews, Samuel and Silvanus.
To Benjamin, son of his brother, John Mott, all his lands, at Cape Fear, North Carolina.
To Jacob, son of his brother, Adam Mott, his lands, in Hempstead.
To his brother, Adam Mott, his wearing apparell.
Nephew, Joseph Starkins, his broad axe and gun.
To Jacob, son of his brother, Adam Mott, a bed.
Executors: his nephews, Samuel and Jacob Mott, and Sylvanus Townsend.
65 CHARLES MOTT, son of Charles Mott, 13, born prior to 1696 and had died, probably prior to 1740, when his father failed to mention him in his will, but alluded to one, Joseph Mott, his grandson, who was willed twenty shillings, in full of his claim as heir-at-law.
1743 and 1748. Charles Mott is, however, alluded to in the wills of his brothers, Amos Mott and Benjamin Mott, respectively. He married, Deborah Pearsall, prior to 1729, and moved to Kakiat, (New Hempstead), Orange Co., N. Y.
Issue
15I Joseph Mott; eldest son.
152 Samuel Mott
153 Silvanus Mott. Silvanus Mott was a witness, at Hempstead, in 1748.
66 JACOB MOTT, son of Charles Mott, 13, born 1698-1705, resided at Hempstead, where he made his will Dec. 4, 1737; proved Sept. 6, 1738, in which he gave all his estate to his loving father, Charles Mott, consisting of lands, at Kakiat, Orange County, and his interest in the schooner, Fortune. Executors: his father, Charles Mott, and Joseph Mott, Sr. Among the witnesses were Adam Mott and Joseph Mott. He died without issue.
67 RICHARD MOTT, son of Adam Mott, 15, was born as late as 1728, for he was still a minor, in 1749, the date of his father's decease.
1757, Dec. 14. Richard Mott, of Kent Co., yeoman, conveyed to John Vining divers pieces of land in Dover.
1759, Jan. I. He was a Vestryman of the Parish of St. Mary, in Kent. Co, when his brother Richbell conveyed land to three trustees, of whom he was one, for local church educational purposes.
1763, May 27. He sold to Govey Emerson the 180 acres of land that belonged to his late father, at Willingbrook, in Little Creek Hundred.
1766, Dec. 17. Jerusha Mott, widow, was granted letters of administration on the estate of Richard Mott, deceased.
Issue
154 Richbell Mott; mentioned in will of his grandmother, Elizabeth Mott, of Staten Island, 1777, as the son of her deceased son Richard Mott, and to whom she gives a legacy when he attains the age of 22 years.
69 RICHBELL MOTT, son of Adam Mott, 15, was born 1717-18. He married, Mch. I, 1736, Mary, daughter of Richard Seaman, of Herricks, Hempstead, L. I., who, in his will, 1751,
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gave this daughter, Mary, wife of Richbell Mott, froo, in trust, the use of a house, land about the house, firewood, the use of two cows, a horse, negro woman, etc. "All these she is to have during the time she doth or shall live apart from her husband, Richbell Mott," etc. Richard Seaman likewise devised to his granddaughter, Elizabeth Mott, £20, and £5 to Nathaniel Parsell, or William Mott, for the use of the Monthly Meeting at Westbury. In a codicil, made 1752, he gave to his daughter, Mary, in lieu of the house and lot originally devised, the use of the new house he was building and the half acre of land adjoining it, so long as she lives separate from her husband.
1738. Adam Mott suggested to the Governor the position of Lieutenant of Richmond Co. Militia, for his son Richbell.
1744, Mch. 10. Richbell Mott, gentleman, of Richmond Co., was granted letters of ad- ministration upon the estate of Samuel Britton, deceased, of the same place.
About 1747, he moved to Kent Co., Delaware, where his father, Adam Mott, conveyed to him lands, Feb. 22, 1748, in Little Creek Hundred.
1750, Oct. I. Richbell Mott, gentleman, of Kent Co., Delaware, aged 32 years, testified, in Queen's Co., N. Y., that he was a bondsman on the license and was present at the marriage of George Manlove, Little Creek Hundred, Kent Co., Delaware, to Mary, daughter of John Tread- well, of Hempstead, performed by Mr. Reading, rector of the Parish Church of St. George, in New Castle County, "In the Territories of pensilvany."
1753, Feb. 7. Richbell Mott, farmer, of Kent Co., Del., conveyed to Richard Wells part of the land received from his father, Adam Mott, in 1747.
1759, Jan. I. Richbell Mott, gentleman of Little Creek Hundred, conveyed for love and good will, to the Church of England and to the Presbyterians for the education of the youth of these denominations, a part of his homestead in Little Creek Hundred, called York.
1762, June Io. Letters of administrations were granted upon his estate (his widow Mary having renounced) to Mathew and Sarah Manlove. The widow was still living in 1767.
Issue
155 Sarah Mott; married Mathew Manlove.
156 Elizabeth Mott; wife of Solomon Seaman of Maryland in 1768.
157 Richard Mott
158 Seaman Mott
84 RICHARD MOTT, son of Henry Mott, 29, was born about 1735; living 1768.
Issue
159 Elkanah Mott, born 1761; died 1822.
160 Richbell Mott, born about 1763; died 1828; lived at Far Rockaway.
88 RICHARD MOTT, son of Joseph Mott, 30, was of Hempstead, and made his will May 5, 1757; proved Apr. 18, 1758, in which he gave his estate to his wife, Elizabeth, and made her, with his uncles, Jacob Mott and Richard Thorne, executors.
92 JACKSON MOTT, son of Jacob Mott, 32, was born 1740. He must have married twice.
The following must refer to his second marriage:
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Jackson Mott and Gloriana Coles, both of Queen's County, were married, at St. George's Church, Hempstead, Jan: 25, 1774.
Issue
16I Samuel Mott; baptized, at St. George's Church, Hempstead, Oct. 22, 1758. "Samuel, son of Jackson, son of Jacob, son of Jacob and Abigail Mott," which must be an error, as one too many Jacobs occur.
93 ISAAC MOTT, son of Jacob Mott, 32, was born May 6, 1743; died Mch. 28, 1780; married Anne Coles, born Aug. 10, 1747; died July 16, 1840.
Issue
162 Samuel Coles Mott, born Nov. 19, 1766; drowned Oct. 30, 1839; married, Mary Leonard, June 25, 1793, who died Nov. 22, 1826.
Issue*
Ann Maria Mott, born Aug. 15, 1794; married Caleb Willis.
Nathaniel Leonard Mott, born Aug. 23, 1796; died May 13, 1822; married Ann Eliza . . . ., born May 14, 1809; died, May 6, 1895, leaving issue. Jerusha Mott, born June 17, 1798; married Richard Mattocks.
Catharine Mott, born Apr. 8, 1800; died an infant.
Clementina Mott, born Aug. 31, 1801; married Nathaniel Willis.
Samuel Leonard Mott, born Aug. 16, 1803; died Mch. 29, 1871; married, Oct. 15, 1838, Lavinia Strebeck; left no issue.
Catharine M. Mott, born Oct. 1, 1807; married William Robinson.
163 Jordan Mott, born, at Hempstead Harbor, Feb. 6, 1768; died Jan. 8, 1840; married, first, Elizabeth Ellison, Jan. 7, 1793; no issue; married, second, Lavinia Striker, Sept. 24, 1801, born May 27, 1782; died Mch. 16, 1862.
Issue
John Hopper Mott, born Apr. 30, 1803; died, young, unmarried.
James Striker Mott, born Aug. 29, 1804; died Dec. 20, 1867; married Amelia Taylor; left issue.
Samuel Coles Mott, born Aug. 7, 1806; died, unmarried, 1855.
Jordan Mott, born Oct. 24, 1808; died 1874; unmarried.
Jacob Hopper Mott, born Feb. 20, 1810; died May 14, 1861; married Julia M. Soule; no issue.
Garrit Striker Mott, born Dec. 7, 1812; died 1869; unmarried.
Matavus Hopper Mott, born Sept. 23, 1815; died Jan. 9, 1864; married Ruth Ann Schuyler; left issue.
164 Jacob Coles Mott, born Jan. 5, 1770; died Apr. 3, 1833; married, Mary Green Smith, Aug. 30, 1792, born 1776; died, aged 82 years, in New York City.
Issue
Mary Ann Mott, born 1793; died 7, 29, 1877; married, 1821, Charles Coles Feeks; left issue.
*For a fuller account of the descendants of Isaac Mott, see pp. 61, 62, 63, of the New York Geneal. and Biog. Record, Jan- uary, 1905.
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Isaac Thomas Mott; married . . . Rose; left issue.
Clara Gertrude Mott; married William Dymock, of Maryland; had issue.
George Smith Mott; killed, about 1836, in the Seminole War, Fla .; un- married.
Charlotte Smith Mott; married Capt. John W. Patterson; left issue.
Emeline Laura Mott; married Frederick Mayer; left issue.
165 Jerusha Mott, born Feb. 5, 1772; married, Rev. George Strebeck, Oct. 24, 1793; left issue.
166 Isaac Mott, born Mch. 28, 1780; probably died young.
97 JACOB MOTT, son of Jacob Mott, 32, was born June 30, 1756; died Aug. 16, 1823; married, Deborah, daughter of Dr. William Lawrence, at St. George's Church, Hempstead, Aug. 25, 1776.
Jacob Mott moved from Hempstead to New York City, and became prominent. Mott Street was named after him.
From 1804 to 1810, he was Alderman. President of the Board of Alderman and Deputy Mayor of New York City.
Issue
167 William L. Mott, born Jan. 16, 1777; married Dorothy Scudder.
168 Richard L. Mott, born June 6, 1782; married Elizabeth Deal.
169 Jacob L. Mott, born Sept. 13, 1784; married Hannah, daughter of Peter Riker, of Williamsburgh, by his wife, Mary Kelly. She was born June 16, 1787. They resided at Tarrytown, and he was an eminent preacher among the Friends. 170 Jordan L. Mott, born, at Manhasset, L. I., Oct. 12, 1798.
171 Mary Mott; married Ezekiel G. Smith.
103 JOHN MOTT, son of William Mott, 37, married, June 17, 1784, at the age of 50 years, Elinor Johnston, widow of Capt. Alexander, of the British Navy.
Issue, (from the family bible in possession of his grand-daughter, Eleanor Hines Abel, of Providence, R. I.)
172 Gershom Mott, born July 12, 1785.
173 William Mott, born Mch. 29, 1790.
John Mott was a guide to Generals Washington and Sullivan Dec. 25, 177-, in the attack upon Trenton.
Feb. 9, 1776, Ist. Lieut. in Capt. Patterson's Co., in the Third Battalion, although he may have served earlier.
Nov. 29, 1776, he was Captain in Fifth Co., Third Battalion; probably part of Maxwell's Brigade.
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