Anne Mott (1768 - 1852)

Born 31 Jul 1768 in Dutchess County, New York

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Died 5 Aug 1852 at age 84 in Rochester, Monroe, New York, United States

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Ann was born 31 July 1768 and died 5 August 1852. She died in Rochester, Monroe, New York and was buried in Mt Hope Cemetery , Rochester, New York. Her will was probated on December 21, 1852^[1][2][3][4] On 19 May 1785, she married Adam Mott.^[5] Adam was born 11 October 1762, the son of Adam Mott and Sarah Willis. ^[6] His family were members of the Westbury Monthly Meeting at Nassau, New York.^[7] Adam died 10 January 1839. ^[8]

Their children included ^[9]

Mary, born 14 April 1786; died 16 February 1792

James, born 20 June 1788.

ANCESTRY OF ADAM AND ANNE MOTT

Adam and Anne Mott: Their Ancestors and Their Descendants

By Thomas Clapp Cornell

CHAPTER XV.

THE MOTT ANCESTRY

Adam and Anne Mott were second and third cousins ; that is, Adam was second cousin of Anne's father, both being descended from Adam Mott, of Essex, England, who settled in Hempstead, L. I., soon after 1650.^[10]

This Adam Mott, the immigrant, was one of the early white settlers of the town. At the time of his coming the native Indians were still in practical possession of the larger part of Long Island, although the Dutch of New Amsterdam claimed the territory as part of New Netherlands.* But the white settlers in Hempstead were chiefly English, who consented to recognize the Dutch sovereignty. The Dutch governor, William Kieft, had made the first grant of Hempstead to half a dozen Englishmen, in 1644. The town originally extended from Long Island Sound on the north to the Atlantic Ocean on the south, including what is now Hempstead and North Hempstead. The earliest town records begin in 1657. Soon after the English occupation of the colony (1664), the English governor, Nicolls (March, 1666), confirmed the Dutch Patent of twenty years before in John Hicks, Justice of the Peace, Capt. JOHN Seaman (an Ancestor of Anne Mott). Richard Gildersleeve, Robert Jackson, John Karman, John Smith, senior, and John Smith, junior. Between this date and the end of the century, many English families came to Hempstead, among whom were other ancestors of Adam, or of Anne Mott, some of whom are to be noted in the following pages. Almost all of them were followers of George Fox. There were Willits, and Titus, and Willis, and Underhill, and Carpenter and Fry, and others. And to make it more convenient to trace the ancestors coming from these allied families, their names will be printed in small capitals, as "Capt. John Seaman" above.^[11]

The Mott descent from the Adam Mott, of Essex, England, who became the first Adam Mott of Hempstead, down to Adam and Anne Mott, is shown in the following tabular statement:

• The English claimed sovereignty from Massachusetts to Virginia, and in 1656 the Dutch Government at the Hague recognized the English right to all of Long Island east of Oyster Bay.^[12]

Adam Mott, of Essex, England, settled in Hemstead, L. I., about 1655. 2d wife, married about 1667, Elizabeth Richbell, dau. of John and Ann Richbell. Richbell' married 1696 Elizabeth Thorne. Adam8 m. 1731 Phebe Willitts" , afterwards known as Richard' married 1741 Sarah Pearsall. "Grandmother Dodge.'^[13]

James* married 1765 Mary Underhill. Adam' married 1755 Sarah Willis. Anne' Mott married 1785 Adam4 Mott.^[14]

THE FIRST ADAM MOTT OF HEMPSTEAD

According to the records of the Dutch Church of New Amsterdam, Adam Mott of Essex, England, was married in New Amsterdam on the 28th of July, 1647, to Jane Hulet of Buckingham, England. The record certifies that neither had been previously married. About a year before this, on the 23d of April, 1646, the Dutch Government of New Netherlands granted to Adam Mott'25 morgans of land on Mespath Kill (Newtown Creek.) The Albany records (book G. G., p. 156) mention a deed of 7th January, 1653, of this land with buildings, on the west side of Mespath Kill (Bushwick, L. I.,) "originally granted to Adam Mott." The records preserved at Albany (IV., p. 187-9-190) also mention Adam Mott as witness in court in New Amsterdam on 23d Oct., 1645, and even earlier than this—on the 6th of June and on the 10th of May, 1644. These are the earliest authentic records which I have been able to discover of the first Adam Mott of Hempstead. It is true an Adam Mott, a tailor aged 39, who " bro't testimony from the Justices of the Peace and Minister of Cambridge," had sailed from London in the ship Defence in July, 1635, and came to Boston with his wife Sarah, aged 31, and children John, aged 14; Adam, 12; Jonathan, 9; Elizabeth, 6, and Mary, 4. It has been supposed by Thompson and others that this Adam Mott, or his son Adam, or both of them, came to Hempstead, but there is no evidence of this; and, on the contrary, they and their marriages and children can be traced in Massachusetts and Rhode Island till long after the Adam of Hempstead was settled there.^[15]

J. C. Hotton has a record of the ship Bevis, of Hampton, which sailed for " Newengland by virtue of the Lord Treasurer's warrant," in May, 1638, with 61 souls on board, one of whom was "Adam Mott, taylor, aged 19. But there is no evidence when or where this Adam landed, and as stated above, the only authentic record of the Hempstead Adam is that above quoted from the Dutch Church records of New Amsterdam and the State records at Albany. Adam2, son of Adam Mott1, according to the same church records, was baptized on the 14th of November, 1649, the sponsors being Thomas Hall, Oloff Stevenson Van Cortlandt and Elsie Miiytiens (Alice New THE FIRST ADAM SETTLES IN HEMPSTEAD. 201 ton, wife of Capt. Bryan Newton.) These were among the most respectable people of the infant city, then numbering hardly one thousand souls.^[16]

Jacobus2 (James), the second son of Adam Mott1, was baptised 5th of October, 1651. The sponsors were Rebecca Cornell—a several times great aunt of this present editor—(who subsequently married George Wolsey), Bryan Nuytens (Newton), and Carel Ver Brugge (Charles Bridges, who married Sarah Cornell, sister of Rebecca and widow of Thomas Willett, and mother of Col. Thomas Willett of Flushing.)^[17]

The first entry on the first page of Book A of the Hempstead records, 1657, March 17, certifies that Adam Mott was chosen one of the "townsmen" for that year. At that time, and for long afterward, the neck of land in the north part of the town, between Hempstead Harbor on the east and Cow Bay—now Manhasset Bay—on the west, was a common pasture for the cattle of the town, and was hence called Cowneck. It was already enclosed by a fence about three miles long from the "Head of the Harbor,"—now Roslyn—to the head of Cow Bay, now Manhasset. From this fence to the Sound the neck was about five miles in length from north to south, and from two to three miles in width between Hempstead Harbor and Cow Bay, making about eight thousand acres. Adam Mott's descendants have been living on Cowneck for more than two centuries. In 1657, public notice was given that "All who wished their calves kept by the keeper should give in their number to Adam MoTT before the 24th of April."^[18]

The fence consisted of 526 panels, or "gates," and was maintained by 60 contributors, whose right of pasturage was proportioned to the "gates of fence" which each maintained. Adam MOTt1 at that time, by the record, had three oxen, two milch cows, two calves, and twenty acres of allotted meadow. In the absence of any bell, it was then the custom to call the people to town meeting or to church by beating a drum, and the town expense of Hempstead in 1659 includes six shillings to Adam Mott for four days' beating of the drum. On the 4th of February, 1663-4, an agreement of peaceable intercourse between the Dutch and the English of the neighboring towns was signed on behalf of the English by John Underh1ll, David Denton and ADAM Mott; and for the Dutch by Oloff Stevenson Van Cortlandt, J. Becker, and John Laurence.^[19]

July 3, 1667, as the gates and bars of the town fence were often left open, seven men were appointed by the town, one being Adam Mott, each to keep the gate shut nearest his own house. This would indicate that Adam Mott's residence at that time was somewhere near the line between the present villages of Manhasset and Roslyn.^[20]

In 1668, August 4th, Adam Mott, senior, is concerned as defendant in a law suit with Richd Lattin of Oyster Bay, and a month later Adam Mott, junior, is defendant in another law suit. This is the first occasion in which the town records distinguish between Adam Mott, Senior, and Adam Mott, Junior. The son was then 19 years old.^[21]

The land north of the fence (Covvneck) being held by the town in common, the people were indignant when in the early autumn of 1776, they found an intruder on their common pasturage, making a settlement, and building a house on the west shore of the neck, between where Port Washington and Sands Point are now situated. An indignation meeting was held on the 14th of October, 1676, and a resolution adopted to drive the intruder away, and to tear down his house. A company of twenty or more men actually did tear down the house, but the intruder did not go. On the contrary, he procured the arrest of the leaders in the assault. They were, Thomas Rushmore, Nathan1el Pearsall, Adam Mott, Abraham Smith and Joseph Langdon. The intruder proved to be John Cornwell, as he spelled the name, who, with his wife Mary Russell "and five small children, had been driven from the settlement in the east (near Portsmouth, R. I.), by the Indians," and came to Hempstead under the protection of the Governor (Andros). Richard Cornhill, John's brother, as it now appeared, although his name was spelled differently, had long lived in the adjoining town of Flushing, on lands at Little Neck, and was a Justice of the Peace. He had endeavored to prevent the destruction of the house, being on the ground at the time, and now was "one of the bench" before whom "the rioters," were tried. Adam MOTT pleaded that he had only thought to defend his own rights, and did not know that the intruder had any legal authority and on this submission was let off with a fine of five pounds. But NATHANIEL PEARSALL did not make so effective a justification, and was fined twenty pounds and required to give bonds. John Cornwell's pa tent from the Governor is not dated till the following year (29th September, 1677), but some of his descendents, occupy the land to this day, and another of his descendants, who is at the same time a descendent of Adam Mott and also of Natn. Pearsall is now writing these lines.^[22]

In 1682, May 25, a subscription to pay the salary of a minister, the Rev. Jeremy Hobart, containing about 80 names and making up £6j. 4s. has the name of John Mott 7s. Cornelius Mott 10s. and Adam Mott £1. Adam was therefore not a Friend. Lawrence Mott, and Loris Mott, as well as this Cornelius Mott are named in the early Hempstead records from 1668 to 1682, but there is no evidence that they belonged to the Adam Mott family.^[23]

In 1683, October, an assessment list comprising about 133 names has several Motts, as follows:^[24]

James Mott, 14 acres land, 4 oxen, 13 cows, 2 hogs, 1 horse.

John Mott, 2 oxen, 15 cows, 3 hogs, 2 horses.

Joseph Mott, 6 cows, 1 horse.

Sources

1. ↑ New York County Probate Records Bk 106, pg. 159 FHL film # 874585 https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L99P-B9MS-R?i=110&cc=1920234&cat=273761
2. ↑ Mt Hope Cemetery Records, Mt Hope Cemetery, Rochester, New York https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brookefamily/mottan60.jpg
3. ↑ Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy
4. ↑ Obit: Rochester Daily Democrat , August 6, 1852 page 3 https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brookefamily/mottan56.jpg
5. ↑ Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy
6. ↑ Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy
7. ↑ Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy
8. ↑ Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy
9. ↑ Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy
10. ↑ Adam and Anne Mott
11. ↑ Adam and Anne Mott
12. ↑ Adam and Anne Mott
13. ↑ Adam and Anne Mott
14. ↑ Adam and Anne Mott
15. ↑ Adam and Anne Mott
16. ↑ Adam and Anne Mott
17. ↑ Adam and Anne Mott
18. ↑ Adam and Anne Mott
19. ↑ Adam and Anne Mott
20. ↑ Adam and Anne Mott
21. ↑ Adam and Anne Mott
22. ↑ Adam and Anne Mott
23. ↑ Adam and Anne Mott
24. ↑ Adam and Anne Mott

• Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol III,, pg. 427; 1607–1943 accessed at Ancestry.com
• U.S., Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol I–VI, 1607–1943.
• Adam and Anne Mott, by Thomas Clapp Cornell
• ADAM MOTT - Long Island Genealogy