Sarah Mott

• Not the same as Sarah Lott
• Sarah Mott was not a known daughter of Richard Jenynges & Mary Catherine Hore of Dorset. “The Great Migration Begins” has no origins for her.

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Disputed Origins & Spouse

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Unknown-608488

Some, without source, claim that her parents were Richard Jenynges and Mary Channon, and that her first husband was Engelbert Pieters Lott. There is no known source for these claims and they are disputed.

Biography

Updated 23 August 2023

Sarah (___) was born in about 1604 in England, most likely in Cambridgeshire, based on the location of her 1635 marriage.[1][2]

She married first (___) Lott, before 1630, most likely in Cambridgeshire. They had at least one child together, and her first husband died before 1635.[3]

The widow Sarah Lott married second Adam Mott on 11 May 1635 at Horseheath, Cambridgeshire, England.[4]

"Uxor" Sarah Mott emigrated with her husband Adam Mott on the ship "Defense" (1635) and children Mary Lott, daughter by previous marriage, and four step-children: Joseph, Adam, Jonathon, and Elizabeth.

The Defence sailed from London about the last of July 1635, and arrived at Boston on 8 October 1635.[1][2]

They resided first in Roxbury, removing to Hingham in 1636 and then to Portsmouth in 1638.[5]

She was named by Adam in his will, made on 2 April 1661 in Portsmouth. Sarah was named executrix of Adam's estate on 31 August 1661.[6]

Family

Married

1. before 1630 likely in Cambridgeshire to a Mr. Lott.
2. on 11 MAY 1635 in Horseheath, co. Cambridge, to Adam Mott b: ABT 1596 in Saffron Walden, Essex Co., England as his 2nd wife; he married Elizabeth Creel first. (TAG Vol. 35, page 107 Additions and Corrections to Austin's Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island )

Children with Lott include

1. Mary Lott, b. 1631, Cambridge, Cambridge, England d. 08 Oct 1712, Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island. Married Adam Mott, her step brother. [1]

Children with Adam Mott, born in Portsmouth, Newport Co., Rhode Island

1. Jacob Mott b: ABT 1636. Married Joanna Slocum. A Quaker.
2. Eleazer Mott b: ABT 1638. Died after 2 April 1661.
3. Gershom Mott b: ABT 1640,. Married Mary Bowne.

Sarah’s daughter, Mary Lott (from her first marriage to a Mr. Lott) married the son of her second husband (Adam Mott) from his first marriage.

Notes

1. there is an Engelbart Lott who emigrated from a point near the Lotte River (this is speculation by Phillips) with his two sons Pieter (born 1626) and Engelbartsen "Bartel" (born about 1630) established the Lott family in America. The Lott's were French Huguenots from Reynerwout in Drenten, Holland. They immigrated to Nieuw Amsterdam in 1652. Pieter Lott settled in Flatbush and married Gertrude Lamberts; together they had nine children. See http://lotthouse.org/history.html
2. Another Adam Mott came to Newbury, Mass., and later migrated to Long Island. In the shipping list in 1638 he was aged 19 years, and in his will in 1681 he called himself aged about 60. At his marriage to his first wife, Jane Hallet, in 1647, the Dutch Church records of New Amsterdam enter him as from Essez County. This Adam Mott had children by his first wife named James, Grace, Henry, John, Joseph and Gershom.  See http://webpages.charter.net/treinhardt/surnames/mott/tmg35.html
3. Adam Mott married (2) in Horseheath, Cambridge, England, 11 May 1635, widow Sarah Lott. They came from Horseheath, Cambridge to Massachusetts Bay in 1635 on the "Defence" (on 2 July 1635, "a tailor, Adam Mott," aged 39, "uxor Sara Mott," aged 31, and "children," "Jo[hn] Mott," aged 14, "Adam Mott," aged 12, "Jonathan Mott," aged 9, "Elizabeth Mott," aged 6, and "Mary Mott," aged 4, with a certificate of conformity from the minister at Cambridge, were enrolled at London as passengers for New England on the Defence). First settled in Roxbury; moved to Hingham in 1636, & Portsmouth in 1638. They had 3 children: Jacob, Gershom, & Eleazer.
4. The passenger list for Adam Mott includes daughter "Mary Mott," aged 4. Austin noted that this passenger was actually "Mary Lott . by his second wife's former husband." The parish register of Clare, Suffolk, includes the baptism on 22 October 1630 of Mary Lott, daughter of Jeremy, on 22 October 1630, a possible candidate for this stepdaughter. The will of Adam Mott includes no mention of a daughter Mary.

Will of Adam Mott

Portsmoth August ye 31th 1661 Page: page 386:

ffor as much as Sarah Mott widow to the late deceased adam mott of ye towne of portsmoth hath brought hir late husbands will in to ye office of to be proued and hath Exhibeted the same to the towne Counsill thay findinge the said will som thinge dewbeious i not desclaringe the said Sarah his wife to be his Excektrix yeet the scope of the same makine hir one in powar there fore we the Counsill of the towne of portsmoth doe vnanimusly apoint the said Sarah mott & widow to the late deseaced Adam mott to be sll Execetrix duringe the terme of hir life accordinge to whot we vndarstand the meaninge of ye will to be beinge the magior part of the Counsill

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References

1. Savage, Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England. Vol III, p 247
2. Henry Howland Crapo, Certain Comeoverers, Vol 1 pg 217.
3. Brown Thurston, Thurston Genealogies 2nd ed, pg 518.
4. G. Andrews Moriarty, "Additions and Corrections to Austin's Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island", Pg. 108.
5. Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn Jr and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, "Adam Mott, "Great Migration 1634-1635, M-P, 181-185.
6. http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=thezubers... dead link
7. http://www.joeflint.com/p46.htm#i1693
8. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Unknown-608488 cites
   1. John Camden Hotten, ed., The Original Lists of Persons of Quality, (New York: Empire State Book Co., 1874), 99; images, Internet Archive, (https://archive.org/details/originallistsofp00hottuoft : accessed 26 Jun 2022) (uxor Sara Mott, age 31, traveling with husband Adam Mott to New England on the Defence, 2 July 1635).
   2. Charles Edward Banks, The Planters of the Commonwealth, (Boston: Riverside Press, 1930), 167-68; images, Internet Archive, (https://archive.org/details/plantersofcommon00bank : accessed 26 Jun 2022) (reproducing passenger list of the Defence, with sailing & arrival dates).
   3. John Osborne Austin, The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island, (Albany, NY: Joel Munsells Sons, 1887), 344; images, Internet Archive, (https://archive.org/details/genealogicaldict00aust : accessed 26 Jun 2022) (describing Adam Lott's wife as "Sarah Lott (widow)," and noting that the child identified as "Mary Mott," age 4, on the Defence was born Mary Lott, the daughter of of Sarah by her first husband).
   4. FamilySearch, "Bishop's transcripts for Horseheath, 1599-1860," database with images (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G96W-VCY : accessed 26 Jun 2022), 11 May 1635, "Addam Mott and Sarah Lot Maried"; FHL 2149260 items 3-4, DGS 7,561,132.
   5. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, 7 vols. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1999-2011), 5:181-85; images, < AmericanAncestors.org >
   6. The Early Records of the Town of Portsmouth, (Providence, R.I.: E.L. Freeman & Sons, 1901), 386; images, Internet Archive, (https://archive.org/details/earlyrecordsofto02port : accessed 26 Jun 2022). ##See also: Find A Grave: Memorial #36633991, no gravestone image, no burial details. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/36633991/sarah-mott}}