Jacob Mott Jr (1661 - 1737)

Born 13 Dec 1661 in Portsmouth, Rhode Island

Ancestors

Husband of Rest (Perry) Mott — married 20 Nov 1705 in Barnstable, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 14 Mar 1737 at age 75 in Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island

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Biography

Jacob was a Friend (Quaker)

Jacob Mott, son of Jacob Mott and Joanna Slocum, was born 13 Dec 1661 in Portsmouth, Rhode Island.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

He married first to Cassandra Southwick, daughter of Josiah Southwick and Mary Boyce. ^[5] He married second to Rest Perry, daughter of Edward Perry and Mary Freeman.^[4][5]

In 11m 1698/9 [Feb 1699], he donated 3£ towards the construction of the Dartmouth meeting house.^[7]

He died 14 Mar 1737 in Portsmouth.^[4][5]

Children

• Jacob Mott, born 8d 8m 1690 [8 Oct 1690].^[8]
• Adam Mott, born 12d 4m 1692 [12 Jun 1692].^[8]
• Joseph Mott, born 5d 11m 1694 [5 Mar 1696].^[8]
• Elizabeth Mott, born 29d 4m 1698 [29 Jun 1698].^[8]
• Joanna Mott, born 9d 10m 1700 [9 Dec 1700].^[8]
• Mary Mott.
• Rest Mott.
• Cassandra Mott.
• Dorcas Mott.
• Ann Mott.
• Mary Mott.

Sources

1. ↑ Slocum, Slocums, p. 41.
2. ↑ Frost, Keeler, p. 342.
3. ↑ Harris, Mott, p. 7.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} Austin, Rhode Islanders, p. 25.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3} Representative, Genealogical, p. 1735.
6. ↑ "Rhode Island Births and Christenings, 1600-1914," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F83F-V7S : 6 December 2014), Jacob Mott, 13 Nov 1661; citing SOCIETY OF FRIENDS, NEWPORT, NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND, reference 2:1781JNC; FHL microfilm 22,488.
7. ↑ Monthly meeting records, Men's Minutes 1699 – 1727, Society of Friends, Dartmouth Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Dartmouth, N.Y.), p 2.
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4} Monthly meeting records, Births - Marriages - Deaths 1699 - 1880, Society of Friends, Dartmouth Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Dartmouth, Mass.), p 1.

Documentation

• Secondary: Frost, Josephine C. Ancestors of Evelyn Wood Keeler, wife of Willard Underhill Taylor; Compiled for Their Children: Mary Morgan Taylor, Willard Underhill Taylor, Jr., Annette Evelyn Taylor. Privately Printed. Brooklyn, NY: 1939. See Ancestry.com.
• Secondary: Slocum, Charles Elihu. A Short History of the Slocums, Slocumbs and Slocombs of America, Genealogical and Biographical; Embracing Eleven Generations of the First-Named Family from 1637 to 1881: With their alliances and the descendants in the female lines so far as ascertained. Also the etymology of those surnames, an account of some researches in England concerning their ancestors who bore the parent surname, Slocumbe, etc. Privately Printed. (Truair, Smith & Bruce, Printers and Binders.) Syracuse, NY: 1882. See Archive.org.
• Secondary: Gorton, Adelos,. The life and times of Samuel Gorton : the founders and the founding of the Republic : a section of early United States history and a history of the colony of Providence and Rhode Island plantations in the Narragansett Indian country now the state of Rhode Island, 1592-1636-1677-1687 : with a genealogy of Samuel Gorton's descendants to the present time. Philadelphia: unknown, 1907.
• Secondary: Austin, John Osborne. Ancestry of Thirty-Three Rhode Islanders Born in the 18th Century. Albany, N.Y.: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1889.
• Secondary: Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island. Vol. III: "Genealogical Records and Historical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens and of Many of the Old Families." Chicago, IL: J.H. Beers & Co., 1908. See Archive.org.
• Secondary: Descendants of Lawrence and Cassandra Southwick of Salem, Massachusetts.