Grace (Mott) Smith (1653 - abt. 1698)

Born 1653 in Hempstead, Long Island, New Netherland

Ancestors

Wife of Jonathan Smith — married about 1673 in Hempstead, Long Island, New York

Descendants

Died about 1698 at about age 45 in Hempstead, Queens County, Province of New York

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Biography

Grace was born about 1653. She was the daughter of Jenne Hulet. She passed away in 1698.

Grace Mott is named as a daughter of her father in his will thus:

New York Wills, 1665-1707 Page 127. -- ADAM MOTT b abt 1620. "March 12, 1681/2, I, Adam Mott, being aged 60 or thereabouts, now very sicke, do now declare this to be my last will and testament." He leaves to ... his daughter Grace 4 great pewter platters and those Hollows lying between the Great Run and Tanders Hook, those two hollows which lyeth upon y e left hand of said path, going to ye Towne, from Madnan's Neck . And 3 Hollows, one lying and next to the other side of the Great Run.

Page 128.--Inventory of estate of ADAM MOTT, taken by Jonathan Smith, Sr., and Jonathan Smith, Jr., Hempstead, 5, 1690. Total amount, ¤182. Jacob Leisler, Esq., Lieutenant-Governor, Commander in Chief, etc. To all to whom these presents shall come, know ye that at the Court of Sessions in Queens Co., held April 8 , the will of ADAM MOTT was proved. The same is confirmed and Letters of Administration are granted to his widow Elizabeth Mott , May 12, 1690.

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Research Notes

Grace is not recorded as one of the children of Adam Mott and Mary Lott of Portsmouth, Rhode Island.^[2]

One profile gave her death date as 1747.

Sources

1. ↑ Descendants of Adam Mott of Hempstead, LI, NY. By Edw. Doubleday Haris. New York, 189? (8p.)
2. ↑ Rhode Island: Vital Records, 1636-1850. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014), Originally Published as: Vital record of Rhode Island 1636-1850: First Series: births, marriages and deaths: a family register for the people, by James N. Arnold. Providence, RI: Narragansett Historical Publishing Company. https://www.americanancestors.org/DB532/i/14491/68/264548678

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Acknowledgments

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