Joanna Mott

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Joanna Slocum was born on 16 May 1642 at Portsmouth, Newport, RI.1 She was the daughter of Giles Slocum and Joan Cook.1 Joanna Slocum married Jacob Mott, son of Adam Mott and Sarah Lott, circa 1660 at Portsmouth, Newport, RI.1 Joanna Slocum died Jan 4-6, 1727-8 at Portsmouth, Newport, R.I..1,2 She was buried Jan 4/6, 1727/8; Buried in Friends' graveyard, Newport, daughter of "old Giles Slocum and Jane, his wife," a famous preacher in Pennsylvania and the Barbadoes.

Joanna was a Quaker minister, and traveled without her husband to preach, at a time when this just was not done.

Joanna is the ancestor of James Mott, the husband of one of Nantucket’s most famous daughters, 19th century women’s rights and anti-slavery crusader (and Quaker) Lucretia Coffin Mott..

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JOHANNA SLOCUM (Giles Anthony) was born in Portsmouth Township, Rhode Island (?), the i6th day of Third month, 1642.

She married Jacob, son of Adam Mott — who was born in Cambridge, England, A. D. 1596, and his wife Sarah born in 1604. — who came to America in the ship "Defense" in 1635. Jacob Mott became distinguished as a minister in the Society of Friends ; see pages 31 ; 48. It is also written f that the Mott family have ever been highly respectable. The sixth Jacob occupied the homestead in Portsmouth Township, R. I., in the year 1853. Johanna Mott is named in her father's will (page 40) as sole executrix of his estate. Children :

i. HANNAH MOTT, born in November, 1663. She became the

second wife of Abraham Tucker in 1690 ; see^ketch No. 10.

ii. MERCY MOTT, born 8 January, 1666, in Portsmouth, R. I.

iii. SARAH MOTT, born 3 February, 1670, in Portsmouth, R. I.

iv. ELIZABETH MOTT, b. 12 September, 1672, in Portsmouth, R. I.

v. JACOB MOTT (?), born , in Portsmouth, R. I.

vi. SAMUEL MOTT, b. 4 September, 1678, in Portsmouth, R. I.

Siblings: John born 26 May 1645, Giles, Jr. born 25 March 1647, Ebenezer born 25 March 1650, Nathaniel born 25 December 1652, Peleg born 17 August 1654, Samuel born circa 1657, Mary born 3 July 1660, and Eliezer born 25 December 1664.