Thanks Wayne
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 08:15:01 -0800
From: WayneLII(a)aol.com
Source: Dutch-Colonies-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Will of John Mott
Sorry Bill I don't think this is the John Mott you were looking for, but I
would like to know who he belongs to if someone out there isn't tired of me
asking about the Motts.
Wayne
Abstracts of Wills Vol IV 1744-1753, pages 331 & 332:
Page 349.--In the name of God, Amen, April 25, 175-, I, JOHN MOTT, of the
town of Hempstead, yeoman, being sick. I leave to my wife Rebecca one bed and
furniture, which she may choose, and a chest, 2 pewter plates, a bason, 6
spoons, 1 iron pot, 1 trowel, a pair of tongs, 1 cedar pail, hooped with
iron, 4 plates, a stone jug and a table. I leave to my son Samuel two steers,
and to my son Jacob my carpenter tools, and 1/2 of my Surveyor's Compass and
Chain. I leave to my daughter Sarah, wife of Benjamin Hulse, a bed with
Dimity curtains. To my daughter Martha, wife of Daniel Carman, 1 iron pot and
a side saddle. "I leave to my son Jehu 1/2 of my hand saw, and 1/3 of my
three quarter augur, and 1/2 of my inch augur, and my best pitch fork, and
1/3 of my ox cart." To my daughter, Rebecca Mott, a feather bed. I leave to
my son Jehu 1/2 of my Surveyor's Compass and chain. I leave to my three
daughters ��15 each. To my daughter Phebe, wife of Daniel Wright, ��5 and a
cow. To my son Micaiah, part of my tools, and a black riding horse, and also
leave to him all my housen, barn, and orchards, and land where I now live,
lying between the land given to my sons Jehu and my son Jacob, bounded east
by Thomas Wiggens, west by Jonas Flower and Eldred Lucas. And he shall
maintain my wife Rebecca. I also leave to him 1/3 of my land and meadow at
Rockaway. I leave to my sons, Jacob, Jehu, and Micaiah, all my right in the
undivided lands in Hempstead. "But before I conclude this will. I reserve a
certain piece of land in that part given to my son Micaiah, 2 rods square,
lying at the south west corner of an orchard called the Cheese orchard, where
my son John Mott was buried; To remain for a burying place for me and my
children and grand children for ever, and not to be sold." I make my sons
Jacob and Jehu executors.
Witnesses, Thomas Wiggins, Thomas Wiggens, Jr., Elizabeth Wiggens. Proved,
April 20, 1751.