Adam Mott Sr.
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Adam Mott Sr. (bef. 1621 - bef. 1689)

Lt. Adam Mott Sr. aka Maet
Born before in Saffron Walden, Essex, Englandmap
Ancestors ancestors
Brother of and
Husband of — married 28 Jul 1647 in New Amsterdammap
Husband of — married 1664 in Gravesend, Long Island, New Yorkmap
Husband of — married 1667 in Hempstead, New Yorkmap
Descendants descendants
Died before at about age 68 in Hempstead, Queens, New York Colonymap
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  • Adam Mott of Roxbury, Hingham and Portsmouth, arr. 1635
  • his son Adam Mott
  • Adam Mott of New Netherland and Hempstead, arr. 1638
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The Puritan Great Migration.
Adam Mott Sr. migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See The Directory, by R. C. Anderson, p. 234)
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The Prince's Flag.
Adam Mott Sr. was a New Netherland settler.
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Biography

Puritan Great Migration
Adam Mott Sr. immigrated to New England between 1621 and 1640 and later departed for Hempstead, Long Island

Adam Mott was baptized about January 21, 1620/1 at Saffron Walden, Essex, England.[1] In his will dated March 12, 1681/2, he describes himself as "about sixty years old or thereabout.”[2][3][4] Mott died between March 12, 1681/2 and May 10, 1689/90 at Hempstead, Queens County, New York.[5][6]

According to G. Andrews Moriarty:

“Adam Mott came to Newbury, Mass., and later migrated to Long Island. In the shipping list in 1638 he was 19 years old, and in his will in 1681 he called himself aged about 60. At his marriage to his first wife, Jane Hallet, in 1647, the Dutch Church records of New Amsterdam enter him as from Essex County. This Adam Mott had children by his first wife named James, Henry, John, Joseph, and Gershom.”[7]

According to the Parish Registers for Saffron Walden, Essex, England, the Mott family was also known as Walhed, Wallhead, Wallheade.[1]

The following baptisms, marriages and burials are recorded in the Saffron Waldon Parish Registers:[1]

18 Jan 1595/6 baptised James Walhedd son of John; 29 Nov 1619 married Jeames Wallheade and Grace Thurgarr; 27 Nov 1626 buried Grace wife of James; 24 Aug 1638 married James Mott and Mary Richwell

21 Jan 1620/1 bpt. Adam Mott, son of Jeames
31 May 1623 bpt Henry Mott son of James
25 Nov 1626 bur George Mott son of James

The Adam Mott baptized 1620/1 was of the right age to be the Long Island settler, and the names of Adam’s children by his first wife—James, Grace, and Henry—match those of his birth family.

Adam Mott was an early English settler at Gravesend, New Netherland (Brooklyn, western Long Island). The town was protected by Fort Amsterdam, located at the southern tip of New Amsterdam, where Adam Mott was living in 1643 through 1648.[5] In 1643 Gravesend became one of the original, and only English, towns founded in the Dutch colony of New Netherland when Governor Willem Kieft granted a land patent to Lady Deborah Moody, as a site where English Anabaptists could settle, free from religious persecution (Anabaptists believe that baptism should not be given to infants but must be withheld until a child has grown to understand its meaning). Kieft waged a war on Native Americans, resulting in the deaths of more than 1,000 indigenous people in Manhattan and western Long Island. It was called the Kieft War, and Kieft was brutal. This was too much even for the Dutch, who recalled him; Kieft died at sea. Tensions among the English, Dutch and Native Americans continued until 1674, when the Dutch finally relinquished all their North American claims to the British, and New Amsterdam became New York.[8]

Immigration

In 1638 an “Adam Moll (sic), 19, servant, tailor," was recorded as a passenger for New England on the ship Bevis of Southampton. He was one of ten servants listed with Stephen Dummer of Bishopstoke, county Hants, husbandman, who settled first in Newbury, Massachusetts.

"Bevis of Southampton, one hundred and fifty tons, Robert Batten, Master. Probably sailed in May, 'by vertue of the Lord Treasurers warrant of the second of May, wch was after the restraynt and they some days gone to sea Before the Kings Mates Proclamation Came into Southampton.'"[9][10][11]

Newbury, Massachusetts

Currier’s History of Newbury states that:

Governor Winthrop and others were anxious to extend the settlement of the colony [Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts] to its extreme northern limit, in order that they might hold the disputed territory against all claimants under the Mason grant. Most of the passengers who came to New England in the ship "Mary and John" were induced to remove to Newbury early in the year 1635. Tradition asserts that they came by water from Ipswich, and landed on the north shore of the Ouascacunquen (now Parker) river, about two or three hundred rods below the bridge that connects the “Lower Green" with the "Great Neck” and the town of Rowley. They were soon joined by Henry Sewall, and brothers Richard and Stephen Dummer, (among others), who were interested in stock-raising and actively engaged in the importation of sheep and cattle.[12]
Stephen Dummer was made a freeman in Newbury on May 22, 1639.[13]

Portsmouth, Rhode Island

In 1638, brothers Richard and Stephen Dummer, and Richard’s son Thomas Dummer; together with Adam Mott, and others in their company, removed to Portsmouth, Rhode Island:[14]

At a Generall Meeting upon Publick Notice this 23d of the 6th month [1638.]
PRESENT.
Mr. Coddington, Judge, Mr. Edw'd Hutchinson,
Mr. Dummer, Mr. Brenton,
Mr. Esson, Mr. Willbore,
Mr. Hutchinson, John Porter,
Mr. Clarke, Wm. Freeborne,
Mr. Harding, Rich'd Carder,
Mr. Sanford, Randall Houlden,
William Dyre, Cl'k.
22. It is agreed that thirteen lotts on the west side of the Spring shall be granted to Mr. Richard Dummer and his friends, to witt, Mr. Stephen Dummer, Mr. Thomas Dummer, Mr. Esson, Mr. Jefferyes, Mr. Doutch, Wm. Baker, Mr. Spencer, Adam Mott, Robert Field, James Tarr, Mr. Harding, and thess to build ther at the spring at farthest, or else their lotts to be disposed of by the Company.
25. It is ordered that Mr. Richard Dummer, in regard of a mill that he undertooke to build, which was conceived to be usefull to the plantation, he should be accomodated answerable to a Man of a hundred and fifty pounds estate allottments.
26. It is ordered that Mr. Richard Dummer with his friends, whose names are Recorded in the 22: order shall eyther be accomodated with us in the present plantation equall to ourselves, or in case there be not sufficient accomodations here, then to accommodate them on some other parte upon the Island.

Stephen Dummer returned to England before 1648. In a letter dated May 10, 1648, he wrote to Henry Short, of Newbury, "If you can sell my farme at the Birchen Meadows do for what it is worth." March 5, 1650, Henry Short sold the farm of three hundred acres, more or less, for twenty-one pounds to Thomas Browne and George Little.[13]

Thus, after arriving in New England on the Bevis in 1638 as a single man, Adam Mott, age 19, born 1620/1 removed that same year from Newbury, Massachusetts to Portsmouth, Rhode Island, while his first cousin Adam Mott, born about 1623, had emigrated to New England with his family at the age of 12 in 1635, living first in Roxbury, Massachusetts, then removing to Hingham in 1636, and then to Portsmouth, also in 1638.

Fort Amsterdam, New Netherland

New Amsterdam

From 1643 to 1648, Adam Mott is living in New Amsterdam, New Netherland.[5] He makes a declaration at Fort Amsterdam in 1645 regarding a debt due by William Lachem to Thomas Spicer:[15][16]

"[147c] At the request of Tomas S[py]se[r], Adam Mott, about twenty-three years of age, attests and declares that some time ago, about July last, he heard Willem Lachem say that he owed the above mentioned Tomas Spyser fifty guilders or thereabouts. All of which he, the deponent, declares, in place of an oath, to be true, offering to confirm the same. In testimony whereof this is signed in the record by Adam Madt, the 23rd of October anno 1645, in Fort Amsterdam, New Netherland. Adam Mott. Acknowledged before me, Cornelis van Tienh., secretary”
Declaration of Adam Mott regarding a debt due by William Lachem to Thomas Spicer (October 23, 1645)
Adam Mott Sr.'s signature from the October 23, 1645 declaration regarding a debt due by William Lachem to Thomas Spicer


In 1646 Gov. Kieft granted land at Green Point (bordering Mespath), Long Island to Adam Mott, about 24 miles west of Hempstead, Long Island.[17][18]

“We, Willem Kieft, etc... have given and granted to Adam Matt a piece of woodland for a plantation containing 25 morgens located on the west side of the Kil of Mespachtes on the point obliquely opposite the plantation of Ritchert Bridnil, with the express condition etc...”
“Done at Fort Amsterdam, 23 August 1646.”

Hempstead, Long Island

After marrying in 1647,[19] Adam Mott and wife Jane settled at Hempstead, Long Island in 1656.[17] He was a "townsman” of Hempstead, 17 Mar 1657.[5]

On February 24, 1663/4 Adam Mott, Capt. John Underbill and David Denton signed, for the English settlers, an agreement with the Dutch government to allow English settlers at Hempstead.[5]

Adam Mott was commissioned as Lieutenant of the Hempstead Militia by Governor Nicholls on 22 April 1665.[20] Mott was called Lieutenant Adam Mott in 1670:[21]

1670 On 18 July, "we Mr. Richard Gildersleeve, and Lieutenant Adam Mott, both of Hempsteed in the North Riding of New Yorshire, have exchanged a Parcell or Parcells of Meadow, the said Mr. Gildersleeve having a Parcell of Meadow lying at a Neck comonly called the great Neck" ... "And I the abovesaid Lieutenant Adam Mott Senior, having a certaine Parcell or Parcells of Meadow lying at a Neck comonly called Mercock or Merock"

First Marriage

Adam Mott and Jane Hewlett married in New England in the Dutch church on 28 July 1647:

1647 28 Jul Adam Maet, j.m. Uyt Graefschap Esseck, en Jenne Hulet, j.d. Uyt 't Graefschap Buckingam.[19]
Translation Note: Uyt is Old Dutch for "Uit" = From; Graefschap is Old Dutch for Graafschap = "County"
Adam Maet, young man from county Essex, to Jenne Hulet, young woman from county Buckingham

Children of Adam Mott and Jenne Hunte

Adam and Jenne had the following children:[5]

  1. Adam Mott, Jr., bap. Nov 14, 1649, New Amsterdam, New York — “1649 Adam, son of "Adam Moth" was baptized on November 14 at the Reformed Dutch Church in New Amsterdam. The sponsors were "Thomas Hall, Olof Stephenszen Van Courtlant, Elsie Muÿtiens."[22]
  2. Jacobus (James), bap. Oct 15, 1651, New Amsterdam, New York — “1651 Jacobus, son of "Adam Mol" was baptized on October 15 at the Reformed Dutch Church in New Amsterdam. The sponsors were "Brian Nuÿting, Carel Verbrugge, Rebecca Cornel."[22]
  3. Henry, b. abt 1653, Greenpoint, Kings, New York; d. 21 Nov 1680;[5] father Adam Mott’s Will dated 12 Mar 1681/2 mentions three children of his deceased son Henry[2]
  4. Grace, b. bet 1653 and 1656, Hempstead, Queens County, New York; m. Jonathon Smith Jr
  5. John, b. abt 1659
  6. Joseph, b. abt 1661, Hempstead, Queens County, New York

Second Marriage

Before 1665 Adam Mott married a "daughter of William Bowne, of Gravesend, Long Island and Middletown, New Jersey.”[5]

Child of Adam Mott and Miss Bowne

  1. Gershom, b. abt 1665[5]

Harris records Gershom as the child of his first wife. He does not show record of a second marriage. Other marriages and all children are included.[4]

Third Marriage

Adam Mott married Elizabeth Redman in 1667:[5]

Adam Mott married "to Elizabeth Redman, daughter of Ann Parsons, widow of Mr. Redman, and later wife of John Richbell. Elizabeth Redman, wife of Adam Mott, upon the demise of her husband, married Robert Hobbs or Hubs, and was living as late as 1698.”

Children of Adam Mott and Elizabeth Redman

Adam and Elizabeth had the following children:[5]

  1. Richbell, (son), b. abt 1670
  2. Mary Ann
  3. Elizabeth
  4. William
  5. Charles
  6. Adam, b. 20 Aug 1680, Hempstead, Queens County, New York; m. 1732, Phebe Willits[23]

Last Will and Testament

Adam Mott wrote his Will on March 12, 1681/2. He names his "eldest son Adam" and sons James, John, Joseph and Gershom, daughter Grace, three children of his deceased son Henry, "youngest son Adam," wife Elizabeth and "all ye children I have by her."[2][3][4]

On May 10, 1689 the witnesses attested the Will of Adam Mott:[2] The Will of Adam Mott was proved on April 8 the following year and again on 29 October, 1691.[2]

“May the 10th 1689 Then apered Joseph Sutten Senr and William Peatte and made oath that they saw Adam Mott Senr sine and seall this above will as his Last will and testement ad that he was in his Right mind and senses Sworen before os Tho: Hickes Danll Whitakere John Cornell
This will was provd at a Court off Sessions held For Queens County Aprill ye 8th 1690”
Fort William Henry the 29 of October 1691:
“Then appeared before me Major Richard Ingoldesby Commander in Cheife of the Provence of Newyorke ... Jseph Sutton Senior William Peat and Joseph Sutton junr and mad oath upon the holy Evangeists that they Did hear the within Testator Publish this instrument to be his last will and Testament ...”

Stillwell states that the Will of Adam Mott was proved, 1689 [1690] May 10. by the witnesses, before Thomas Hicks, Daniel Whitehead and John Cornwell, magistrates; at the Court of Sessions, Queen's County, Apr. 8, 1690; at New York, before Gov. Leisler, May 12, 1690, when letters of administration were issued to Elizabeth, the widow of Adam Mott, and again, Sept. 20, 1691, to Adam Mott, his son, and still again, before Gov. Ingoldsby, at Fort William Henry, Oct. 30, 1691, when letters were issued to Elizabeth, his widow, and Adam Mott, his eldest son.[5]

“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.”[3]

In 1691 an agreement was made between Elizabeth Hubs, formerly wife of Adam Mott senior, deceased, and her son-in-law Adam Mott junior concerning a dispute over the estate of Adam Mott senior. They agreed to abide by the Will and that Adam Mott and his three brothers Jeams, John, and Joseph, shall have Cornishes and Larances properties as is mentioned in a deed of gift to them and two allotments lying at "ye great necke" and one allotment the meadow lying at "hixes neck." More details are recorded in the deed. Signed by Elizabeth Hubs and Richbell Mott.[6]

Research Notes

Two men named Adam Mott, first cousins There were two men named Adam Mott who emigrated from England around the same time. This profile represents Adam Mott, born 1620/1, who emigrated from Essex County, arrived in 1638 on the ship Bevis, and settled in New York.[7] He was the son of James Mott and Grace Thurgar.[1]

The other Adam Mott, born about 1623, was the son of Adam Mott born 1594. The family emigrated from Horseheath, Cambridge to New England on the ship Defence in 1635. They lived first in Roxbury, Massachusetts, then removed to Hingham in 1636, settling in Portsmouth, Rhode Island in 1638.[24][25] The Rhode Island Adam Mott married his stepsister Mary Lott. There is a large Lott family in Long Island, New York, thus perhaps contributing to a bit of the confusion between the two Adam Mott lines.

The two Adam Motts were first cousins, sons of brothers James Mott and Adam Mott.

Sources

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Note that all the baptism/marriage/birth dates (unless) otherwise cited are from https://www.freereg.org.uk/, which are searchable transcriptions of the parish registers, in this case Saffron Walden. The said dates can be searched there.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 New York County, New York, Wills and Probate Records, 1658-1880 (NYSA)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 William S. Pelletreau, Abstracts of Wills on file in the Surrogate's office: city of New York, Vol. 1, 1665-1707 (New York: The New York Historical Society, 1893), 159, Will 3-4.127, [HathiTrust], InternetArchive, [GoogleBooks].
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Harris, Edward Doubleday. The Descendants of Adam Mott of Hempstead, Long Island, N. Y. Lancaster, Pa.: The New Era Printing Co., 1906. Internet archive link.
  5. 5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10 5.11 Stillwell, John E. Historical and Genealogical Miscellany, Vol. 4 (1916), 71, citing O'Callaghan's New Netherlands, Vol. ii, p. 578, InternetArchive.
  6. 6.0 6.1 Hicks, Benjamin D. Records of the Towns of North and South Hempstead Long Island N.Y., Vol. 2 (1897), 55, InternetArchive.
  7. 7.0 7.1 Moriarty, G. Andrews, "Additions and Corrections to Austin's Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island," The American Genealogist 35 (1959), 107-111, at 108, AmericanAncestors.
  8. Forgotten New York To Gravesend and Beyond : accessed 23 Jan 2021
  9. Charles Edward Banks, The Planters of the Commonwealth (Boston, 1930, reprinted Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1997), 200
  10. Hotten, John Camden (editor). The Original Lists of Persons of Quality: Emigrants, Religious Exiles, Political Rebels, Serving Men Sold for a Term of Years, Apprentices, Children Stolen, Maidens Pressed, and Others, who Went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700. London: John Camden Hotten, 1874. pp. 299-300
  11. Pack Rat The Bevis left Southampton May 1638 for New England with her master Robert Batten. : Work, research and compilation was done by Anne Stevens from packrat-pro.com
  12. Currier, John J. (John James), 1834-1912. History of Newbury, Mass., 1635-1902. Damrell & Upham. Newbury, Mass. 1902. pp. 31-2
  13. 13.0 13.1 Currier, John J. (John James), 1834-1912. History of Newbury, Mass., 1635-1902. Damrell & Upham. Newbury, Mass. 1902. pg. 651
  14. Bartlett, John Russell, 1805-1886. Records of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, in New England. A. C. Greene and Brothers. Providence. 1856. Mott, pp. 58-60
  15. Arnold J. F. Van Laer and Charles T. Gehring, Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1642-1647 (New Netherland Research Center and the New Netherland Institute, 2011), 315, [NewNetherlandInstitute].
  16. NEW YORK HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPTS: DUTCH. Translated and Annotated By ARNOLD J. F. VAN LAER. Edited with Added Indexes by KENNETH SCOTT and KENN STRYKER-RODDA. Published under the Direction of The Holland Society of New York. Volume II. Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1642-1647. Adam Mott, pg. 315
  17. 17.0 17.1 Mary Powell Bunker, Long Island Genealogies (Albany: Joel Munsell Sons, 1895), 252, GoogleBooks
  18. New Amsterdam History Centre Patent of Adam Mott for land on the west side of Mespachtes kil : accessed 3 Sep 2021
  19. 19.0 19.1 Purple, Samuel S. “Marriages from 1639 to 1801 in the Reformed Dutch Church, New York" In Collections of the New-York Genealogical and Biographical Society. Vol. I. New York: Printed for the Society, 1890
  20. Mrs. Grant Rideout for Mrs. Albert W. Harris, compilers. Ancestors & Descendants of Sarah Eleanor Ladue Publication: Chicago, IL, 1930. Pg. 122
  21. Benjamin D. Hicks, Records of the Towns of North and South Hempstead Long Island N.Y., Vol. 1 (1896), 271, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].
  22. 22.0 22.1 ”Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York," New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 5 (1874), 26
  23. Robert and Janet Chevalley Wolfe Janet and Robert Wolfe Genealogy, "Notes for Adam Mott and Phebe Willits" : accessed 24 Jan 2021
  24. Austin, John Osborne. The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island, Comprising Three Generations of Settlers Who Came Before 1690. Mott, pp. 344-346.
  25. Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 5, p 181-185. Boston: New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 1996-2011. On Ancestry : Record for Adam Mott b. 1623 and On Google : Adam Mott

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Mott-142 and Mott-30 do not represent the same person because: see Easily Confused box
posted by Cheryl Hammond
Mott-3492 and Mott-30 appear to represent the same person because: Proposing a Merger of Adam 30 and Adam 3492

James Bly

posted by James Bly
My Mott DNA:

I am a match with two Mott descendants in Nova Scotia. Their tree assumes and Elizabeth Mott and husband were English loyalists who headed north. I am a match with a Robert Redman of London, England. What is ironic is of my match with a male Creel from Virginia. That match can not be from the Adam Mott of RI (and Elizabeth Creel) if the NY Mott's are my family branch. I am also a match with someone with some Virginia Mott's (George P.). I am matching with another group of descendants from John Mott, Sr. of New York, born after 1780 and died by 1837 in Fleming County, Kentucky. His daughter Elizabeth Mott McKee was born about 1813 in New York.

I am missing John Mott, Sr. of NY and KY 's father, grandfather, and great grandfather. If from my DNA match and Elizabeth Redman is my great grandmother, then great grandfather John's great grandfather could be: Richbell, Adam2, William, or Charles. I am interested in any information that will help with our three missing generations. Thank you!

posted by Jeffrey Moss
edited by Jeffrey Moss
I’ve researched and rewritten this biography, with additional sources (untangling Mott-30 and Mott-142). I’d like to use my information to replace the current bio. Any objections? Also, could a project member connect Adam Mott to his father James Mott-1816, based on Anne B’s research (see John Mott-14). Thanks!
posted by Sara Mosher
Thank you for your work here on this profile that is co-managed by the PGM project.

I've added James Mott-1816 as father.

Will a PGM Googlegroup Crew member please review Sara's (red & blue) work on this profile and give a reponse to her question? Also any other of the co-managers, please review. Thank you.

Cheryl, PGM Leader

I haven’t posted my work. I’ll do it now. Thanks for adding his father.
posted by Sara Mosher
oh, sorry. My mistake.

Thank you for working here, Sara.

PGM and PGM Beyond New England sticker.

They are both PGM - in The Directory, p. 234.

Edited to remove the statement that I would detangle Mott-30 and Mott-142. I am unable to become involved.

posted by Cheryl (Aldrich) Skordahl
edited by Cheryl (Aldrich) Skordahl
Given that Grace Thurgar is listed as the mother, and James Mott is Grace's husband, is there any reason that James Mott is not listed as the father?
posted by Bill Catambay
Wasn't one of the Adam Mott's a Lt? I'll see if I can find the source I saw that in.
posted by Bill Catambay
Thank you all for the work done on clearing up the confusion between the two Adam Mott's! I'm going to use this great data to clean up my messed up Ancestry tree.
posted by Bill Catambay
Just a note that this should have been merged the other way into Mott-30, as standards are to use the lower number. Mott-30 and Mott-1564
posted by Rob Hoyt
Regarding the second wife Bowne. Under the section their is information: "She was the daughter of Reverend Obadiah Bowne Sr. and Lydia Holmes" However, under her unsourced profile, she is connected to parents William Bowne and Ann Haverland?
posted by Elizabeth (Hart) Hyatt
There wasn't a date in the source for his marriage to Miss Bowne. Any thoughts or feedback on Harris's position that there was no second wife and Gershom was the child of his first wife?
posted by Elizabeth (Hart) Hyatt
I checked and verified all the links for sources. There was significant formatting from the GED import which did not present well. I included additional sources including Robert Charles Anderson's information about Adam Motts who settled in Rhode Island to avoid any further confusion with any details of this Adam Motts.
posted by Elizabeth (Hart) Hyatt
Sources and the Section Footnotes which should be directly under Sources needs much attention. Some of the links don't work, a father is listed that is not valid or linked to anything. some of this information should be in a Research Notes Section not in a Biography? I am going to attempt to organize the sources without deleting any information if that is ok?
posted by Elizabeth (Hart) Hyatt
Mott-980 and Mott-30 appear to represent the same person because: based on wife this is intended to be the same person
posted by Robin Lee
Mott-270 and Mott-30 appear to represent the same person because: they were in an unmerged match & the New Netherland Settlers Approval System (http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:New_Netherland_Settlers_-_Approval_System) now has them marked "Green" (NNS Category) and "Orange" (Merge Pending), indicating that the two are ready to be merged. Thanks!
posted by Liz (Noland) Shifflett

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