Person:Adam Mott (23)

Page 164.--"I, ADAM MOTT, of Hempstead, in Queens County, being weak of body." My negro man is to be sold, and the money used to help pay debts, and also what grain and swine I have to spare more than is wanting for support of family. I leave to my sons Adam and Stephen, all my houses and land on Low Neck, and throughout the whole limits and Patent of Hempstead. I leave to my daughter Elizabeth 1/2 of cattle, sheep, and swine, when she is 18, also my great table and chest and bed. My executors are to let out the land that was formerly Stephen Johnson's, that lyeth on the north side of Richard Thorne's land, Also the north 1/2 of the 28 acres of land that lyeth further west, until my son Stephen comes of age. And my sons are to pay to my daughter Elizabeth, £50, when they are 25 years of age. I leave to my wife Phebe all other movable estate, and she is to give my sons, "each a young mare fit to ride," when they are 17 years old, and £15 when they are 21. Mentions "my brother Richbell's children," "my brother William Mott's children," "my brother Charles Mott's children." I direct that my children "are to have Good School learning, that is, English fit for Country business." I make my wife Phebe and Richard Mott and William Mott, Jr., and John Willis, all of Hempstead, executors.

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