1698 Charles Mott was listed as a resident of Hempstead, Long Island, New York in the August census. [1]
1713 "Petition of Charles Mott and others, for a warrant to the surveyor general, to survey and lay out a tract of land in the county of Orange, granted to Michael Hawden and Daniel Honan, in 1696, the one equal undivided moiety of which they have lately purchased from the executors of Michael Hawden deceased." [2]
1726 May 19, Petition of Cornelius Cuyper and Charles Mott, in behalf of themselves and others, purchasers of a tract of land called Kackyacktawcke, bounded on the north by a creek called Sheamaweck or Peasqua from thence on a direct west course until the WSW side of a barren plain called Wesegrorap, bear south thence to a creek that runs unto David Demare's creek to the southward of the land called Narranshaw, and down along the said creek, praying that the patents adjoining the same may be surveyed, in order to settle the true bounds of said tract." [3]
1737 "In the name of God, Amen, December 4, 1737. I, Jacob Mott, of Hempstead, being in good health, I leave to my loving father, Charles Mott, all my estate, real and personal, and all my lands at Kakiat in Orange County. Also all my right in the schooner called " Fortune " of New York, that is 1/3. I make my father, Charles Mott, and Joseph Mott, Sr., executors. Witnesses, Adam Mott, Thomas Frealds, Joseph Mott. Proved, September 6, 1738. [4]
1741/42 "I Charles Mott, of Hempstead, in Queens County, yeoman, being weak in body." I leave to my son, Amos Mott, the farm and homestall where I now dwell, lying near Hempstead Harbor; and he is to pay to my wife €4 a year; I also leave to him 1/2 of my right of undivided lands in Hempstead, and a negro boy. I leave to my son, Adam Mott, the other half of my undivided lands in Hempstead. My executors are to sell all, or any, of my lands at Kakiat, or New Hempstead, in Orange County, and out of the money they are to pay to my grand son, Joseph Harkins (or Starkins), son of my daughter, Mary Anne Carroll, €50. "I give to the heir of the body of my daughter, Elizabeth Hunter, €60," and to my said daughter Elizabeth, a negro girl. I leave to my son Gershom, a negro girl now living with Charles Hoobes, Jr., in Pennsylvania. I leave to my son John, my large Bible. I leave to my grand-son, Joseph Mott, 20 shillings in full for his claim as heir at law. All the rest of my property I leave to my sons, Gershom, Benjamin, John, Adam, and Amos, and to my two daughters, Mary Anne Carroll, and Elizabeth Hunter. I make my son Amos, and my kinsman, William Mott, son of William Mott, of Hempstead, deceased, executors." Dated February 10, 1740. Witnesses, Francis Yates, John Joris, Samuel Borden. Proved, March 11, 1741/2. [Note.--"Kakiat" is a large tract of land in Rockland County, including Clarkestown and part of Ramapo. The north half of this tract was purchased in 1717 by a company of men in Hempstead, L. I., who made a settlement there and called it "New Hempstead." New City, the County seat of Rockland County, is a part of it.--W. S. P.] [5]
"Charles Mott, the third son of Adam by the second wife, was married probably not much before 1695 to Elizabeth, who apparently died in his life time. His Will was made Feb. 10, 1740 and proved Mar. 11 of same or next year. He was the owner of lands in Cacayas or Kakiat (New Hempstead) in Orange Co. His children were Charles, Gershom, Jacob', Amos, Benjamin, Adam, Maryann' who having lieen first the wife of a Starkin. then married, 1730, Patrick Carrell, Elizabeth, who married a Hunter, and John." [6]
"Charles Mott, born in Hempstead in 1676, died in 1740" was the son of Adam Mott and Elizabeth Redman. [7]
[1] Edward Doubleday Harris, "The Hempstead census of 1698," New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 45 (1914), 54-68, at 55, [HathiTrust].
[2] Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, Calendar of N.Y. Colonial Manuscripts, Indorsed Land Papers; In the Office of the Secretary of State of New York 1643-1803 (Albany, New York: Weed, Parsons & Co, 1864), 108, [GoogleBooks].
[3] Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, Calendar of N.Y. Colonial Manuscripts, Indorsed Land Papers; In the Office of the Secretary of State of New York 1643-1803 (Albany, New York: Weed, Parsons & Co, 1864), 183, [GoogleBooks].
[4] 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), 249, citing liber 13, p 192, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[5] 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), 356, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[6] Edward Doubleday Harris, The Descendants of Adam Mott of Hempstead, Long Island, N.Y. (Lancaster, PA: New Era Printing Co, 1906), 6, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[7] Lewis Publishing, Encyclopedia of Genealogy and Biography of the State of Pennsylvania, Vol. 2 (1904), 1051, [GoogleBooks].