1715 Richbell Mott was named executor for the will of Henricus De Friest. [1]
1734 "In the name of God, Amen, September 22, 1734. I, Richbell Mott, of Hempstead, in Queens County, being in great weakness of body. After the payment of debts and funeral charges, I leave all my personal estate to my wife, Elizabeth Mott (except two negro slaves, "Tom" and "Hagar," and my Irish servant boy "David" and 1/2 my crop of wheat, and what is left to my son Edmund). And she is to have the use of all my farm or plantation on Great Neck, and €20 a year during her widowhood. I leave to my son Edmund, 5 shillings. To my son Richard a crop of winter wheat, on condition that he assist his mother. "The Irish servant boy, David, is to have at the end of his term, a good homespun suit of apparell, besides his every day clothes, and a narrow axe." "And I would have my son Richard instruct him as far as he can in his learning." my son Richard is to have the negro slaves, on condition of his giving security for the payment of £8 to my wife. Before the first of May next, my wife is to move off the home farm on Madnans Neck, and the executors are to sell the same with all the appurtenances. Out of the proceeds, my wife is to have £20 per annum. My son Richard is to have £50, my daughter Elizabeth, £100, my daughter Mary, £90, my daughter Ann, £50, my daughter Jemima, £60, my daughter Keziah, £110, and my daughter Deborah, £140. All the rest of my estate to my four grandsons, Richbell, son of Adam Mott, of Staten Island; Richbell, son of Edmund Mott, of Cow Neck, and Richard and Joseph, sons of Joseph Mott, of Cow Neck. I appoint my sons-in-law, Jonathan Townsend, Esq., of Oyster Bay, Josiah Mott, of Cow Neck, and my friend, Jacob Smith, of Hempstead, executors." [2]
"Richbell Mott, the oldest son of Adam Mott hy his second wife, was of Great Neck. He married. 1696, Elizabeth Thorne, and died in the fall of 1734. His children were Edmund,Richbell, who apparently died soon after his majority and unmarried, Eliizabeth, the wife of Adam Mott of Staten Island, Mary, wife of Jo. Treadwell, Richard, Ann', the wife successively of Daniel Kissam and Jonathan Townsend, Jemima, wife of Stephen Wood, Kezia, wife of John Jackson, and Deborah, wife of Joseph Mott of Dutchess Co." [3]
[1] William S. Pelletreau, Abstracts of Wills on file in the Surrogate's office: city of New York, Vol. 2, 1708-1728 (New York: The New York Historical Society, 1894), 148, citing liber 8, page 384, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[2] William S. Pelletreau, Abstracts of Wills on file in the Surrogate's office: city of New York, Vol. 3, 1730-1744 (New York: The New York Historical Society, 1895), 163, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[3] Edward Doubleday Harris, The Descendants of Adam Mott of Hempstead, Long Island, N.Y. (Lancaster, PA: New Era Printing Co, 1906), 5, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].