[Ancestor] Mott

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Husband [Ancestor] Mott

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1 M Solon Mott ¹

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           Born:  - ? Poughkeepsie, Dutchess Co, NY
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           Died:  - Poughkeepsie, Dutchess Co, NY
         Buried:  - Poughkeepsie, Dutchess Co, NY

         Spouse: Hannah Traver (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - [Ancestor] Mott

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There are several localities in Normandy bearing the name of La Motte, signifying a mound or hillock, and it is supposed that it is from one of these places that the surname Mott has been derived. Not only Mott, but the other forms La Motte or Lamotte, and Delamotte, are long naturalized in the United Kingdom, and are not unknown in the United States. There is an old family of the name in Essex county, England, that dates back as far as the year 1375. The crest and arms which are used by the Motts in America were granted in 1615, and are: Arms, a crescent argent; crest, an estoile of eight points, argent. Motto, Spectemur agendo. The present seat of the particular Mott family alluded to in England is Barningham Hall, Hanworth, Norfolk.
From this Essex family is thought to have come Adam Mott, the founder of a family in America, who is supposed by some to have been the Adam Mott who arrived in Boston in 1635 and settled in Hingham in 1636, and in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, in 1638, and was supposed to have removed to Long Island about 1646. This is the theory propounded by Thomas in his "History of Long Island," but Savage in his "Dictionary of New England" and Austin's "Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island" make no mention of the removal of Adam Mott to Long Island. The truth seems to be that there were two Adam Motts, identical in name, almost contemporaneous, and similar in the circumstances of their lives, but really two different persons. We have no certainty as to the relation of either Adam Mott to the New York family of the name. According to the records of the Dutch Church of New Amsterdam, Adam Mott, who came from Essex, England, married, in 1647, Jane Hulet, of Buckingham, England. According to an entry in volume xxiv of the New York Historical Documents, the Dutch government in 1646 granted him land on Newtown creek, at that time called Mespath Kill. He was also a witness in court in 1644 and 1645, according to other entries in the Albany records. The Adam Mott, on the other hand, who was the founder of the New England family of the name, was from Cambridge, England, and the names of his children, the names of two of his wives, and the dates of the marriages, are dif-ferent from those of Adam Mott, of New Amsterdam. The will of the Adam Mott, of New Amsterdam or New York, dated March 12, 1682, is in the surrogate's office of New York. It is apparent therefore from these facts that the New York Adam Mott was a different person from the Adam Mott who came to Boston in 1635, and later resided in Hingham, Massachusetts. His descendants are numerous in New York, Long Island, and the neighboring counties. Curiously, the family below described, does not seem to have any connection in this country with either of those named above. A complete search of the deeds and probate records of Dutchess county shows no trace of any connection with the Quaker family of Massachusetts or Long Island, established in the eastern portion of that county. According to tradition, the ancestor of this family came from Holland after the middle of the eighteenth century and located at Poughkeepsie. He appears to have had sons: Solon, Robert, James or Henry, perhaps both the latter. Tradition is the only authority for these.

The first two of Solon's sons names are distinctively Dutch in character and indicate the origin given by tradition and throw doubt upon any connection with the Quaker family of the name in Dutchess county.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 1083.