1683 On 11 October, Joseph Mott was named on a rates list for Hempstead with 1 heads, 0 land and meadows, 0 oxen, 2 cows, 0 hogs, 0 sheep, and 1 horse. [1]
1691 On 5 November, Joseph Mott purchased, from his brother Adam Mott, both of Hempstead, a parcel of meadow at Rockaway called "hungry harbor" previously owned by Mr. Hicks. [2]
1692/93 On 26 January, Joseph Mott purchased, from his brother Adam Mott, both of Hempstead, a parcel known as "hixes neck". [3]
1692/93 On 26 January, Joseph Mott sold, to his brother Adam Mott, "a sartaine parsell of meddo Lying in two parsells at Rockaway at a parsell of meddo Called hungry harbor being mentioned to mee ye sd Joseph mott in a deed of Conveyance from my brother Jeams mott which tow parsells of meddo fully as mentioned in ye sd deed of sale with Every part and parsell thereof with one quarter part of one Lott of meddo at ye greet neck Estward which was Laid oute to Richard Gildersleeve sener and Richard Gildersleeve Juner then Called though now both Desesed all which meddo with Every part and parsell thereof I ye sd Joseph mott do by these presence fuly freely and absolutely give grant bargin sell alinate and macke over from mee my heires or asignes unto my sd brother adom mott". [4]
1698 "Queens County. A list of all ye Inhabitants of hempstd, old and young, fremen and servants, black and white taken by strict Inquary, yt ye nams of all ye Inhabitants old and young, white and blacke taken by ye order of ye ye Justises of ye Peece, and to ys being a true List by strict Inquiry we have given it under oure hands agust ye 31---1698 ... Joseph Mott, Miriam Mott, Miriam Mott, Jeane Mott, Joseph Mott, Samuel Mott, and Daniell Williams." The next household includes "Jeremiah Smith, Hannah Smith, Jeremiah Smith Jr, Hannah Smith, Elizabeth Smith, Ruth Smith, John Smith, An Smith, Richard Smith, Thomas Smith." [5]
1701[/02] On 12 January, William Smith and wife Elizabeth of Hungry Harbor, Hempstead, sold land to Joseph Mott of north side of Hempstead. [6]
1704 "att a generall towne meeting held in hempsted aprill ye 1 1704. att ye same towne meeting Capt Joseph Smith was Chosen Constable and Colector for ye insuing yeare and John Tredwell and Richard Townsend was Chosen assesors for ys yeare att ye same meeting Samuell Denton Juner Capt Jeremi Smith and Joseph Mott was Chosen Surveyers of highways ... " [7]
1721 On May 30, "I Amos Willitts of Islip in the County of Solfock on Nawsaw Island Within his Majesties province of New York Yeoman for & in Consideration of the Sum of Seven hundred & Eighty pounds ... of the province of New York aforesaid to me in hand before the Ensealing heirof well and Truly paid By James Searing and Joseph Mott both of hempstead in Queens County and on the Island and province abovesaid Yeoman the Recipt wheirof I do ... Discharge them the Said James Searing and Joseph Mott ... Do freely fully and Absolutely Give Grant Bargain Alien Convey and Confirm unto them the Said James Searing & Joseph Mott ... Mesuage or Tract of Land Situate Lying and being in the North Woods of The Township of Hempstead aforesd Near a place Called Herricks ... Standing over the Road that Leads Down to Cow Neck then southarly ... Butted and Bounded on the South by James Searings Land ... Containing By Estamation one hundred and Eighty Acres be it More or Less." [8]
1734/5 Joseph Mott wrote his will, abstracted as [9] [Note that daughter(?) Miriam, who appeared in the family in the 1698 census, is not mentioned.]
In the name of God, Amen, March 24, 1734/5. I, Joseph Mott, of Hempsted, in Queens County, being now weak. I leave to my oldest son Joseph Mott, £300, and the rest of my movable estate to my four children, Joseph, Samuel, Jacob, and Ann, wife of Samuel Cornell, and the children of my daughter, Jane Seaman, wife of Benjamin Seaman. 'My two negroes are to have liberty to live with which of my children they shall choose.' I appoint Elias Dorlense and John Mott, son of my brother John Mott, executors. Witnesses, Jonathan Valentine, Jonas Halstead, Henry Valentine." Proved in Queens County before John Messenger, Esq., February 6, 1735/6.
Research Notes:
Joseph Mott "(probably the fifth) son of Adam Mott, was of Cow Neck, a vestryman of St. George's parish, and had wife Mariam. His Will was made Mar. 24, 1734-5 and was proved in Feb. following." [10]
[1] Christopher Morgan and Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. 2 (1850), 525, [HathiTrust], [HathiTrust].
[2] Benjamin D. Hicks, Records of the Towns of North and South Hempstead Long Island N.Y., Vol. 2 (1897), 51, [InternetArchive].
[3] Benjamin D. Hicks, Records of the Towns of North and South Hempstead Long Island N.Y., Vol. 2 (1897), 53, [InternetArchive].
[4] Benjamin D. Hicks, Records of the Towns of North and South Hempstead Long Island N.Y., Vol. 2 (1897), 54, [InternetArchive].
[5] Edward Doubleday Harris, "The Hempstead census of 1698," New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 45 (1914), 54-68, at 58, [HathiTrust].
[6] Charles T Gritman, Historical Miscellany (NY?: 1920?), 1_392, QR218, Liber A-209, [AncestryImage].
[7] Benjamin D. Hicks, Records of the Towns of North and South Hempstead Long Island N.Y., Vol. 2 (1897), 253, citing page 132, [InternetArchive].
[8] Benjamin D. Hicks, Records of the Towns of North and South Hempstead Long Island N.Y., Vol. 4 (1900), 47, of 46-50, citing page 327, [InternetArchive].
[9] 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), 190, citing liber 12, p 423, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[10] Edward Doubleday Harris, The Descendants of Adam Mott of Hempstead, Long Island, N.Y. (Lancaster, PA: New Era Printing Co, 1906), 3, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].