Er ist verheiratet mit Rebecca Brewton.
Sie haben geheiratet am 11. Juni 1758, er war 28 Jahre alt.Quelle 2
Kind(er):
Motte, Jacob, Jr. (1729-1780). Son of Jacob Motte (1700-1770); Grandson of John Abraham Motte; Grandfather of John Middleton (1786-1826) and Thomas Pinckney (1780-1842); Brother of Isaac Motte; Son-in -law of Robert Brewton; Father-in-law of William Allston (1756-1839) and Thomas Pinckney (1750-1828); Brother-in-law of Miles Brewton, John Sandford Dart, William Drayton(1732-1790), John Huger (1744- 1804), James Irving, Thomas Lynch (1727-1776), William Moultrie (1730-18O5), Henry Peronneau and Thomas Shubrick.
Jacob Motte, Jr., son of Jacob Motte and Elizabeth Martin, was born in Charleston 15 October 1799. On 11 June 1758 he married Rebecca Brewton, daughter of Robert Brewton and Mary Griffith. His wife inherited considerable property from her father and her brother Miles Brewton. Combining his wife's inheritances With his own, Motte was able to become a large planter. At his death he owned 244 slaves.
Jacob Motte, Jr.'s public career began 7 August 1759 when he was named Powder Receiver , succeeding his father-in-law. He then won a special election in St. Mark's Parish and qualified for the Twenty- third Royal Assembly (1760-1761) on 17 January 1761. The voters of the parish reelected him to the Twenty-fourth Royal Assembly (1761). Following special elections, he qualified 1 April 1762 to represent St. Helena's Parish, South Carolina Parish in the Twenty-fifth Royal Assembly (1762), on 4 June 1764 to represent St. Mark's in the Twenty-sixth Royal Assembly (1762-176 5), and on 1 March 1774 to represent St. Helena's Parish, South Carolina in the Thirty-third Royal Assembly (1773-17 75). Motte sat for St. Helena's Parish, South Carolina on the Committee of Ninety-nine (1774). In the general election for the Second Provincial Congress (1775-1776 ) in St. James', Santee Parish, he received equal votes with Edward Jerman.
Motte won the ensuing special election and qualified 17 November 1775. Subsequently, he represented St. James', Santee Parish in the First (1776) and Third (1779-1780) General Assemblies and was a member of the Second General Assembly (1776-1778). Other offices he held were commissioner, to build a chapel of ease (1762); tax inquirer and collector (1767); and commissioner, to build a new parish church (1768) - all in St. James', Santee Parish - and justice of the peace for Craven County (1767,1769) and Charleston (1774). In Charleston he was a member of the South Carolina Society (1761-1780), Charleston Library Society (1770-1780), and the Fellowship Society (1778-1780).
By his wife Rebecca Motte had five children: Jacob (b. 1759), Elizabeth (m. Thomas Pinckney), Frances (m. 1st John Middleton [died 1784]; 2d Thomas Pinckney), Mary (m. William Allston), and an unnamed daughter. Jacob Motte, Jr., died 20 January 1780.
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