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| Richard Mott |
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| Born: 1710
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| Married: 26 Jan 1741
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| Died: 08 Aug 1743 | Page 136.--The 10th day of the 8th month, 1743. I, RICHARD
MOTT, of Hempstead, being very weak and indisposed. All my estate is to be
sold by my executors at their discretion, and after payment of debts, I
leave to my wife Sarah, €100, in lieu of dower, and 1/3 of the remainder.
The rest is to be put at interest, till my son is of age, but if he die
under age then to Richbell, Edmund, and John, the 3 sons of my brother
Edmund Mott. I make my wife Sarah and my father-in-law, Thomas Pearsell, and
my brother, Edmund Mott, and my kinsman, Richard Thorne, of Great Neck, in
Hempstead, executors. Witnesses, Abel Smith, Hannah Pearsall, William Burch. Proved, October 24, 1743. |
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Richard was of Hempstead where he bought the Robinson mill property of Thomas
Pearsall, and of NY called "bolter". He died in 1743 and his widow married
Richard Alsop in 1747. The only child was James, born 1742, merchant of Beekman
St. NY and of Mamaroneck. From The Descendants of Adam Mott of Hempstead,
Long Island by Edward Doubleday Harris, 189?
From Adam and Anne Mott, by Cornell, "Richard Mott died of yellow fever 15th of
8th mo 1743 "in unity with Friends" He gives to his wife 100 pounds in addition
to one-third of all his property, and the remaining two-thirds to his son James
(then but little more than one year old), and in the case of his son's death
without issue to the three sons of his brother Edmond, viz. Richbell, Edmond and
John."
.Hinshaw's Quaker Records lists Richard as being the son of Adam Mott and Elizabeth of NYC, late Hemp. [vol. 3, p. 429]
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