"2. John2 Mott (Nathaniel1), of New Shoreham, R. I., and Lyme, Conn., born at Braintree 19 Aug. 1659, removed to New Shoreham, or Block Island, with his brother Nathaniel about the year 1680. His name appears in the list of freemen there in 1684. He sold land at Block Island 19 Dec. 1689, and again 27 Mar. 1693, when he is described as 'formerly of this Island, but now of Lyme, Connecticut.' This is all that has been gleaned concerning his career. He married, 16 Oct. 1683, Marcy Tosh, daughter of William and Jael (Sullivan) of Block Island. This William Tosh appears to have been the William Macintosh who was among the Scotch prisoners shipped to New England by Cromwell in 1651, after the battles of Dunbar and Worcester, most of whom were sold to the Lynn and Braintree Iron Works. Tosh or Macintosh married at Braintree, 7 Dec. 1660, Jael Sullivan, who was evidently one of the ship-load of Irish captives sent to New England in 1654. When the Braintree men set out to settle Block Island, Tosh was among the first settlers, and became a man of prominence there."
