Nathaniel Mott

Biography

https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Nathaniel_Mott_%282%29

Nathaniel Mott followed the father of his first wife, Nathaniel Winsley, to Block Island, RI, where he was a freeman in 1684. He eventually became a large landowner, and from 1695 was the town clerk. He was deputy from the Island to the Rhode Island General Assembly from 1700 to 1710, and in 1710 was the lieutenant of the Block Island company.

Will

↑ Abstracts of New Shoreham Wills, in Alden G. Beaman. Rhode Island Genealogical Register. (The Rhode Island Genealogical Research Institute)
111, Oct 1980.
Will dated 14 Nov 1717, proved 12 Dec 1717.
Wife Sarah;
sons: John < 21, Edward and Nathaniel, the last 2 to be brought up to read and write.
Daughters: Mary Hancox, Sarah Mitchel, Lidy Rathbun, Bersheba, Meriam and Experience.
Grandson William Hancox.
Granddaughter Hisabeth Hancox.
Capt. Simon Ray coexor with wife.
Witnesses: John Rathbun, Ann Rathbun and John Rose.

Md. 2x's; no further info.

NOTE: http://dunhamwilcox.net/ma/braintree_ma3.htm. This Nathaniel Mott is NOT recorded in births in Braintree records.

References

• https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Nathaniel_Mott_%282%29

Bates, Samuel. Records of the Town of Braintree, 1640 to 1793. (Randolph, Massachusetts : D.H. Huxford, 1886).

• Moriarty, G. Andrews. Nathaniel Mott of Scituate and His Sons. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jan 1913).