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Persoonlijke gegevens Adam Mott 

• Hij is geboren rond 1595 in Cambridge, England.Bron 1
• Geïmmigreerd in het jaar 1634 vanuit Rhode Island, Verenigde Staten.Bron 1

  on the ship Defence

• Beroep: tailor.Bron 2
• Hij is overleden in het jaar 1661 in Rhode Island, Verenigde Staten.Bron 3
• Een kind van John Mott
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 29 mei 2011.

Gezin van Adam Mott

(1) Hij is getrouwd met Unknown.

Zij zijn getrouwd

Kind(eren):

1. John Mott  1620-????
2. Adam Mott  1622-????
3. Jonathan Mott  1625-????
4. Elizabeth Mott  1628-???? 

(2) Hij is getrouwd met Sarah.

Zij zijn getrouwd

Kind(eren):

1. Jacob Mott  
2. Eleazer Mott  
3. Gershom Mott  

Notities over Adam Mott

Thurston genealogies
B. Thurston
Pg 518

Adam Mott, aged 39, from Cambridge, Eng., his second wife Sarah, aged 31 years. four children of Adam by a former wife, and Mary Lott. a da. of Sarah, by a former husband, were passengers from London for New England, in the Defence, in July, 1634. Elizabeth, b. 1628, became the wife of Edward Thurston above. In the Coddington burying-ground, Newport, stones are still standing In memory of Elizabeth, and their sons, Daniel, Samuel, and many others.

Descendants of Edward Thurston
Charles Myrick Thurston
Pg 10-11

FAMILY OF ELIZABETH MOTT, WIFE OF EDWARD THURSTON.
46. Adam Mott, aged 39, from Cambridge, Eng., his second wife, Sarah, aged 31, four children of Adam by a former wife, and Mary Lott, a daughter of Sarah by a former husband, were passengers from London for New England in the Defence, in July, 1634. Adam Mott was admitted, May 25, 1636, a freeman of the colony of Massachusetts, and in the same year he had a grant of land in Hingham. Adam and Sarah Mott were members of the first church in Roxbury. After the birth of Jacob, their first child, they removed to the colony of Rhode Island, where, June 23, 1638, Adam had a grant of land in Portsmouth. Adam and John Mott were, August 1, 1638, on the list of inhabitants of the island of Aqucednecke. Adam was on the court roll of freemen March 16, 1641, and Adam, Sen., John, and Adam, Jr., were on the roll of freemen of 1655. The family record says that Adam Mott first located near Bristol ferry, that he afterwards removed to a farm "near the sea or salt water," and that he there built two houses, one for himself and the other for his son, Adam, Jr., who married his step-sister, Mary Lott. After the death of his father, Jacob Mott bought his brother's rights in the farm, and it has continued in the family, being now occupied by Jacob Mott, the sixth of the name. The will of Adam Mott was dated April 2, 1661, and proved August 31, 1661.

Children.
47 1. John, born 1620.
48 2. Adam, born 1622, married Mary Lott, October, 1647.
49 3. Jonathan, born 1625.
50 4. Elizabeth, born 1628, married Edward Thurston, June, 1647.

Children of Adam and Sarah Mott:
5. Jacob, born in Massachusetts, married Joanna Slocum.
6. Eleazer, born in Rhode Island.
7. Gershom, born in Rhode Island.

Certain comeoverers-, Volume 1
Henry Howland Crapo
Pgs 215-221

ADAM MOTT
Adam Mott, a tailor, of Cambridge, England, aged thirty-nine, together with his second wife Sarah, aged thirty-one, with four children of Adam by a former wife, and one daughter of his wife Sarah by a former husband, whose name, singularly enough was Lott, came over in the ship Defense in July, 1635. Thomas Bostock, the master of the vessel, produced testimony before the Justices and ministers of Cambridge that Adam conformed to the orders and discipline of the Church of England and had taken the oaths of allegiance and supremacy. One of the children of Adam Mott was named Adam, and it is from him that you descend. He was twelve years old when he crossed the ocean in the Defense. With him was his stepmother's daughter, Mary Lott, aged four. It is hardly likely that they conceived any fondness on the voyage which justified their subsequent marriage and would tend to excuse the confusion between the Motts and the Lotts which has been a matter of some solicitude on my part.

Adam Mott and his family landed in Boston and there in May, 1636, he filed an application to be admitted as a freeman. During the same year an Adam Mott was in Hingham and land was granted to him in that town. This was probably your Adam Mott. An Adam Mott, also a tailor, aged nineteen, came over in the Bevis. From him descend the Long Island and New Jersey Motts, who were famous in Quakerdom. What caused your Adam Mott to go to Portsmouth, Rhode Island, at the origin of that settlement in 1638, I do not know. It may be that he, too, had been brought under the all pervading influence of Anne Hutchinson's heretical ideas. Your Adam's father was named John. It is clear that he did not come over with his son on the Defense. There was a John Mott, the son of Adam, aged fourteen, in the party, and subsequently there were countless Johns and Adams in the country who tend to mix things up sadly. Perhaps Adam, your original immigrant, sent for his father, John, within a year or two after reaching America. If so, it was a sad mistake. The story of "ould John Mott" as disclosed in the Portsmouth records does not justify his immigration. If the present restrictive laws had then been in effect, "ould John" would have been sent back to England as "undesirable."

However it happened, Adam Mott and his father John were in Portsmouth almost from the start of the settlement, and to both of them land was allotted. To Adam there were given four score acres in 1639. Doubtless Adam tried to provide for his wife and his children and his little stepdaughter, Mary Lott, but for some years he evidently did not make much of a success of it and was quite unable to provide for his old father, who became a public charge and the constant object of comment at town meetings for many years.

At a meeting in 1644 it was "further ordered that Mr. Baulston have nine pound a year for John Mott and diet and what bedding and clothing he shall wante shall be furnished by the towne." In January, 1648, "it is voated and concluded that ould John Mott shall be provided for of meate drinke and lodging & washing by George Parker at his howse and George Parker shall have 5s. a weeke payd him monthly out of the tresurie by Mr. Baulston so farr as the tresurie will goe."

The next year, at the May meeting in 1649, there is this record: "Adam Mott haveing offered a Cowe for ever and 5 bushels of corne by the yeare so long as the ould man shall live towards his mayntenance that so he might be discharged from any further charge; the towne, every man that was free thereto, settinge downe what corne thay would give for this present yeare made up that 5 bushels to 40 bushels and so it was concluded that Mr. William Balston should have the 40 bushels of corn and the use of the aforenamed cowe this present yeare for which Mr. Balston undertake to keep ould father Mott this present yeare and alowe him house roome dyate lodging and washinge.'' Note '' Mr. Balston received the Cowe above named the 13th of June."

Poor "ould John Mott" was a matter of concern thereafter for many years and nearly every year he was imposed upon another patient provider who undertook to "dyat cloath wash and lodge" him. He certainly enjoyed the excitement of constant change in his place of abode and doubtless would have been able to pronounce with some exactness on the relative merits of the Portsmouth good wives as culinary and laundry experts. At one time the situation became so desperate that "it is agreed that the towne wil bee at the charge to pay ould John Motts passage to the Barbadoes Island and back again, if he cannot be received there, if he live to it, if the ship owners will carry him." Apparently no ship owner was courageous enough to undertake the job and ould John continued to remain in Portsmouth. The last entry which I find concerning him in the town records is in 1656: "It is ordered that John Teft shall have ???13 6s. 8d. peage pr penny, or black 3 pr penny, to keep ould John Mott this yeare for dyat lodging washing and looking to besyde the Cowe and the corn that the ould man's son Adam is ingaged to give." At the same meeting Mr. Baulstone was authorized to pay John Teft what the town owed him for the former year's keep of the old man and he was ordered "to by ould John Mott Cloathing out of the tresury money that come to his hands according as Mr. Balston seeth fit."

I trust you do not take it amiss that this ancestor of yours was a town pauper. He was distinguished, at least, by being the only one. That his neighbors and fellow townsmen gave of their little to his support is certainly to the credit of the town. Whether his son Adam, even in view of the "Cowe for ever" and the "five bushels of corn," really did his full share towards the support of the old man, I have my doubts. At all events, Adam finally succeeded in establishing himself as a well to do citizen and died comparatively rich.

Adam Mott not only succeeded in acquiring some property but he acted in many public capacities, being chosen many times on the grand jury, of which he was often foreman, and being appointed at nearly every town meeting on some committee to settle boundary lines or other disputes. In 1658 he was one of three commissioners to meet the commissioners of Warwick, then a pseudo independent colony, and arrange an alliance. He often acted as Constable and was always diligent in Court affairs. His name often appears in the records of land transfers, and in a deed which he gave in 1652 to John Sanford there is a somewhat interesting provision concerning the consideration of the deed. "I say that in consideration of ten pounds of current pay yt is to say five pounds of current silver current money with the marchant; and five pound in current wampom well strunge and good such as is current with the marchant and the peage to be payd at 8 peags pr penny or else my wife to receive a ewe lamb that she shall better acsept or as well as peage 8 per penny; which if she doe I am content to receave the five pounds of wampon at six peags per penny and fully concluded a full and free bargain."

On August 31, 1661, there is the following record: "For as much as Sarah Mott widow to the late deceased Adam Mott of ye towne of Portsmouth hath brought hir late husband's will in to ye office of to be proved and hath exhibited the same to the towne counsill thay findinge the said will some thinge dewbeious in not declaring the said Sarah his wife to be his Execktrix yet the scope of the same makinge hir one in powar therefore the Counsill of the towne of Portsmouth doe unanimously apoint the said Sarah Mott and widow to be sole Execetrix during the terme of hir life accordinge to whot we undarstand the meaning of ye will to be beinge the magior part of the Counsil."

No more remarkable decision was ever made by a Rhode Island town council which still, even unto this day, exercises probate jurisdiction. The will is given in full in the records of the town, and the testator explicitly appoints Edward Thurston (his son in law) and Richard Tew, both of Newport, as the executors of his will. The will is dated on "ye 2 day of the 2 month 1661" and states that it is "writen with my owne hand." There are several "dewbeious" passages in it, but nothing could be more clearly and explicitly stated than the testator's desire that the two executors whom he names should carry out his wishes, and the whole content of the will precludes his widow Sarah from acting as executrix. For instance, he writes "Also I give power to my Executors, full power, to give to all and every of my children then" (at the death of his wife) "living some gift of ye moveables, either of what is in ye house or abroad as they can move or parswad hir accordinge to there and hir discretion, if she be not willinge to give it with discretion as thay desarve, I then give full power to my aforesaid executors Edward Thurston and Richard Tew to devide so much and as they see meet among them all; further if my children should be Crosse to there mother so yt it should force her to marey againe, I give full power to my executors to take good and full securitie for the makinge good of the estate so longe as she lives." By the terms of this will, the testator says of his son Adam, your ancestor, "I gave his share all redey and part longe since which he hath lived on whos sum was twelve acres." None the less, he provides that his executors shall give his son Adam a ews lamb within twelve months of his mother's decease. The inventory of the estate is most interesting in its valuations of live stock, clothing, utensils, etc. The sum total is ???371 6s.

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