John Mottrom (abt. 1610 - abt. 1655)

Born about 1610 in England

Husband of Mary (Spencer) Mottrom — married 1640 in Northumberland, Virginia

Descendants

Died about 25 Feb 1655 at about age 45 in Chicacoan, Northumberland, Colony of Virginia [uncertain]

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Biography

John Mottrom is a Qualifying Ancestor of the Jamestowne Society

John Mottrom was a Virginia colonist.

Col. John Mottrom^[1]

Birth: 1610 • England

Death: 25 Feb 1655 • Chicacoan, Northumberland, Virginia; Age: 44-45

Father: Samuel Mottrum (1590–1665)

Mother: Elizabeth Pope (1594–1655)

John Mottrom received 963 acres in Northumberland County, Virginia in 1650.

John Matrum served as Burgess from Northumberland County in 1645-6; Jno. Mott ram [sic] was reelected as Burgess from Northumberland County in 1652.^[2]

Marriage & Family

Spouse (1): Mary "Anne" Spencer (1610–1645)

Marriage: abt. 1638, England

Children:

1. Anne Mottrom (1639–1707)
2. Maj. John Mottrom (1642–1691)
3. Frances Mottrom (1645–1720)

Spouse (2): Ursula Byshe^[3]; widow of Richard Thomson (d. 1649)

Marriage: 1651, Virginia. When John Mottrom died, Ursula married George Colclough, who died very soon after their marriage.^[4]

Marriages

"Col. John Mottrom was (first) married to Mary Spencer and had at least three children by her: Ann (1639-1707), John Jr. (1642-?), and Frances (1645–1720). After Mary's death, he married Ursula Bysshe Thompson, the widow of Richard Thompson, who brought three of her own children into the family, Elizabeth, Sarah, and Richard. Sarah. Their daughter, married Thomas Willoughby, whose sister, Elizabeth Willoughby, married first, Simon Oversee, second, Major George Colclough [third husband of her sister-in-law's mother, Ursula (Bysshe) Thompson Mottrom Colclough]. George Colclough died very soon after their marriage and Elizabeth then married Isaac Allerton, Jr.,^[4] a trustee of the will of Mottrom's son-in-law Col. Nicholas Spencer.^[5]

"Daughter Ann Mottrom married Richard Wright (1633-1663) and they had three children: Francis Wright, Ann Wright, and Mottrom Wright.^[6] Major Francis Wright married as his first wife, Ann Washington, the daughter of Colonel John Washington and Ann Pope. Francis Wright and Ann Washington had two children, John Wright and Ann Wright.^[7]

"Daughter Frances Mottrom was married to Col. Nicholas Spencer,^[8] Secretary and President of the Council and later acting Governor of the Virginia Colony (1683–1684) and patentee of the land at Mount Vernon with John Washington.^[9] The Spencers named one of their children Mottrom Spencer after the child's grandfather John Mottrom.^[10] Another son of Frances Mottrom and Nicholas Spencer, William Spencer, returned to the Spencer family parish of Cople, Bedfordshire, where he served as a member of Parliament.^[11]

"A descendant of John Mottrom's son John Jr. was Spencer Mottrom, whose descendant was the distinguished Judge Spencer Roane (1762–1822) of Tappahannock, Virginia, for whom Roane County, West Virginia, is named."^[12]

"John Mottrom's will was written by George McClough, Lawyer. It favored John's three children instead of his second wife, Ursula, whom he had married in 1651. John Mottrom was buried on his family plantation beside his first wife. No trace can be found of the graves today."^[13]

Elizabeth Key Grinstead

Before his death in 1636, Thomas Key indentured the six year old Elizabeth to Humphrey Higginson until she was 15 years old. With the expectation that Higginson would provide for her until she was of age. Higginson returned to England and sold her indentureship to Col. John Mottram of Northumberland County. Col. John Mottram died in 1655.
The overseers of his estate inventoried her, and her son, as “Negroe, slave” and did not honor the contract of indentureship.^[14]

Sources

• Source: Virginia Biography, Volume I-II, p 296

• Source: Virginia County Records, Pg 70

• Source: S-2052917492 Repository: #R-2139398877 Title: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Note: This information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version of those files. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was created. Page: Ancestry Family Trees; Text: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=21058954&pid=3957 * Repository: R-2139398877 Name: Ancestry.com Address: http://www.Ancestry.com Note:

• Source: S1658871532 Repository: #R-2145023627 Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Ancestry Family Tree http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=4151977&pid=3018 * Repository: R-2145023627 Ancestry.com

• Source: American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI): Name: John Mottrom; Volume: 122; Page number: 48; Reference: Gen. Column of the " Boston Transcript". 1906-1941. (The greatest single source of material for gen. Data for the N.E. area and for the period 1600-1800. Completely indexed in the Index.): 30 Apr 1923, 441

• Source: American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI): Name: John Mottrom; Birth Date: 1610; Birthplace: Virginia; Volume: 122; Page number: 10; Biographical Info: col.; Reference: Frost Fams:70, 75

• Source: American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI): Name: John Mattrum; Birth Date: 1610; Birthplace: Virginia; Volume: 112; Page number: 187; Biographical Info: immig. Reference: West fam. Register; 1326-1928. By Letta Brock Stone. Washington, DC. 1928. (11,493.): 420

• Source: John Mottrom. en.Wikipedia.org. Accessed 19 Aug 2018. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mottrom

• Source: Millennium File: Name: Mrs John Mottrom; Birth Date: 1614; Death Date: 1649; Death Place: Northumberland, Virginia, USA

• Source: Virginia, Biographical Encyclopedia: Name: John Mottrom; Residence Place: Virginia, USA; Comments: resided in 1644 at York, in York County, Virginia. He was a successful merchant and shipper. About 1645 he removed to Chicacone--the first settlement on the Virginia side of the Potomac river--where his house became a resort for Protestants who fled from Maryland. When Northumberland county was formed in 1645, he represented it in the house of burgesses. He was burgess again in 1652, and was justice of the peace and colonel of the militia. He had issue, among others Major John Mottrom (q. v.).; ; IV--Burgesses and Other Prominent Persons

1. ↑ Mottrom, John - A5701; died 1655, Northumberland Co.: 1645-46, 1652 (Burgess). accessed 8 October 2021
2. ↑ New River Notes, Colonial Virginia Register
3. ↑ Source: Ref: Northumberland Historical Magazine 1969, p. 22. In en.Wikipedia.org
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Source: Northumberland County VA Court 12 March 1663] also Northunberland Co VA Deeds and Wills. In en.Wikipedia.org
5. ↑ Source: Washington and His Neighbors, William and Mary College Quarterly Magazine, College of William and Mary, Published by the College, Williamsburg, Va., 1895. In en.Wikipedia.org
6. ↑ Source: Ritchie, Anne Reed (1973). Major Francis Wright and Anne Washington with Allied Families. In en.Wikipedia.org
7. ↑ Source: Ritchie, Anne Reed (1973). Major Francis Wright and Anne Washington with Allied Families. In en.Wikipedia.org
8. ↑ Source: Spencer ancestry, Rowlands Manor, Cople, Bedfordshire, bedfordshire.gov.uk Archived 2011-06-15 at the Wayback Machine. In en.Wikipedia.org
9. ↑ Source: Wills of George Washington and His Immediate Ancestors, Worthington Chauncey Ford (ed.), George Washington, Historical Printing Club, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1891. In en.Wikipedia.org
10. ↑ Source: Will of Mottrom Spencer, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. XLV, Boston, 1891. In en.Wikipedia.org
11. ↑ Source: The House of Commons, Eveline Cruickshanks, David Hayton, Stuart Handley, Cambridge University Press, 2002. In en.Wikipedia.org
12. ↑ Source: William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va., 1909. In en.Wikipedia.org
13. ↑ Source: Col. John Mottram
14. ↑ Elizabeth Key Grinstead, Wikipedia. 25 September 2018, amb

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Acknowledgments

• This person was created through the import of breesefam.ged on 09 May 2011.
• This person was created through the import of Spencer.ged on 02 February 2011.
• WikiTree profile Mottrom-5 created through the import of Rankin-Ridgdill Family Tree.ged on Oct 4, 2011 by Elizabeth Rankin.