Col. John Mottram

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Col. John Mottram

Also Known As: "Mottrom", "Mathon"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: England
Death: February 25, 1655 (40-49)
Chicacoan, Northumberland County, Virginia, Colonial America
Immediate Family:

Son of Samuel Mottram and Elizabeth Mottram
Husband of Mary Coleman and Ursula Colclough
Father of John Mottrom; Frances Boulton and Anne Wright

Managed by: Desiree "Dez" Stratford
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About Col. John Mottram

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Col. John Mottrom

  • Birth: 1610 • England
  • Death: 25 Feb 1655 • Chicacoan, Northumberland, Virginia; Age: 44-45
  • Father: Samuel Mottrum (1590–1665)
  • Mother: Elizabeth Pope (1594–1655)

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Mottrom-5

John Mottrom is a Qualifying Ancestor of the Jamestowne Society

John Mottrom was a Virginia colonist.

John Mottrom received 963 acres in Northumberland County, Virginia in 1650.

John Matrum served as Burgess from Northumberland County in 1645-6; Jno. Mott ram [sic] was reelected as Burgess from Northumberland County in 1652.[2]

Marriage & Family

Spouse (1): Mary "Anne" Spencer (1610–1645) Marriage: abt. 1638, England. She was the daughter of Nicholas Spenser and Mary Elmes.

Children:

  1. Anne Mottrom (1639–1707) married three times: 1) Richard Wright; 2) David Fox; 3) Saint Leger Codd
  2. Maj. John Mottrom (1642–1691)
  3. Frances Mottrom (1645–1720) married 1) Col. Nicholas Spencer 2) Rev John Boulton

Spouse (2): Ursula Byshe[3]; widow of Richard Thomson (d. 1649) Marriage: 1651, Virginia.

When John Mottrom died, Ursula married George Colclough, who died very soon after their marriage.[4]

References

  • “Structuring Colonial Entanglements on the Chesapeake Landscape: Exploring Evidence of Fortification from the Coan Hall Site” Society for Historical Archaeology Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology Boston, Massachusetts. January 2020, Katherine G. Parker University of Tennessee-Knoxville. “ The Coan Hall site (44NB11), located in Northumberland County on Virginia’s Northern Neck, is the site of the first permanent English settlement on the south shore of the Potomac (Potter and Waselkov 1994:27). The site was settled by John Mottrom, a fur trader and merchant-planter who arrived at the site in the early 1640s, on land acquired from the neighboring Sekakawon (Chicacoan) tribe. …”
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Col. John Mottram's Timeline

1610
1610
England
1642
1642
1645
1645
Chicacoan Hall, Northumberland County, Virginia Colony
1655
February 25, 1655
Age 45
Chicacoan, Northumberland County, Virginia, Colonial America
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