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Personal data Jacob Motte 

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Household of Jacob Motte

He is married to Rebecca Brewton.

They got married on June 11, 1758, he was 28 years old.Source 2


Child(ren):

  1. Mary Brewton Motte  1760-1838 
  2. Elizabeth Motte  1762-1794 
  3. Francis Motte  1763-1843 
  4. Lucy Motte  1765-1766
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Notes about Jacob Motte

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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Ancestors (and descendant) of Jacob Motte

John Abraham Motte
± 1675-1711
Sarah Maria Hill
1668-1757
Jacob Motte
1700-1770

Jacob Motte
1729-1815

1758

Rebecca Brewton
1737-1815

Mary Brewton Motte
1760-1838
Elizabeth Motte
1762-1794
Francis Motte
1763-1843
Lucy Motte
1765-1766
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    Birthday October 15, 1729

    • The temperature on October 15, 1729 was about 7.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east. Weather type: helder. Source: KNMI
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      Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
    • In the year 1729: Source: Wikipedia
      • July 30 » Founding of Baltimore, Maryland.
      • November 9 » Spain, France and Great Britain sign the Treaty of Seville.
      • November 29 » Natchez Indians massacre 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie, near the site of modern-day Natchez, Mississippi.

    Day of marriage June 11, 1758

    • The temperature on June 11, 1758 was about 18.0 °C. There was 92 mm of rainWind direction mainly west. Weather type: geheel betrokken regen. Source: KNMI
    • Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
    • Regentes Anna (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1759 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
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      • February 4 » The city of Macapá in Brazil is founded by Sebastião Veiga Cabral.
      • May 21 » Ten-year-old Mary Campbell is abducted in Pennsylvania by Lenape during the French and Indian War. She is returned six and a half years later.
      • July 8 » French forces hold Fort Carillon against the British at Ticonderoga, New York.
      • July 26 » French and Indian War: The Siege of Louisbourg ends with British forces defeating the French and taking control of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.
      • August 25 » Seven Years' War: Frederick II of Prussia defeats the Russian army at the Battle of Zorndorf.
      • October 14 » Seven Years' War: Frederick the Great suffers a rare defeat at the Battle of Hochkirch.

    Day of death January 10, 1815

    • The temperature on January 10, 1815 was about 2.0 °C. There was 66 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: betrokken regen. Source: KNMI
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      De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
    • In the year 1815: Source: Wikipedia
      • January 3 » Austria, the United Kingdom, and France form a secret defensive alliance against Prussia and Russia.
      • January 15 » War of 1812: American frigate USSPresident, commanded by Commodore Stephen Decatur, is captured by a squadron of four British frigates.
      • May 30 » The East Indiaman Arniston is wrecked during a storm at Waenhuiskrans, near Cape Agulhas, in present-day South Africa, with the loss of 372 lives.
      • August 24 » The modern Constitution of the Netherlands is signed.
      • December 11 » The U.S. Senate creates a select committee on finance and a uniform national currency, predecessor of the United States Senate Committee on Finance.
      • December 23 » The novel Emma by Jane Austen is first published.
    

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