Notes for Michiel DeMOTT

Notes for Michiel DeMOTT

SOURCE: LDS Film #1035591, Malla DeMotte, DAR #338969 & 0842587
The book DeMotte & Allied Families, Published 1953 by Phoebe DeMotte Norman &
Estella DeMotte Craig, Hoes Baptismal Register Old Dutch Church, Kingston, NY
SOURCE #2: Family Tree Maker WFT disk #3 & #7

Family Story

Two De Motte brothers, Michiel and Mathias, forced to leave their home in France, came to America by the way of Holland. Their names appear in the records of Kingston as early as 1665. They are said to have first lived for a short time in New Amsterdam before buying land from the Indians in a French settlement in the Esopus. It is not known just where this French setlement was located. Esopus was originallly a general name of a large and indefinite tract of country owned by a tribe of Indians by that name. Later Mathias and Michiel De Mott are mentioned as living at Wiltwyk - a Dutch settlement Early records of the De Mott family are meager. After our branch of the family reached America most of the baptismal and marriage records can be found in the old records of the Dutch Reformed Church with the name spelled variously - De Motte, De Mott, De Modt, De Moedt, De Moth, De Muth, Demut. Evidently the DeMott brothers found conditions unsatisfactory in the Esopus country for in 1704 they moved to New Jersey, going first to Bergen (Jersey City) Mathias bought land & established a home there. Michiel bought a tract of land lying between the hills and Pequannack River in Morris Co NJ. known as Pompton Plains. The deed to this land is dated Oct 9, 1704. He built a stone house onto the south end of which he attached his Blacksmith shop. He lived there the remainder of his life.

The name Motte is a place name of French origin. Motte means a hill or mound, in French. de means "of" or "from". La means "the". de la Motte means people from the hill or mound. The castle was built on a hill or higher land. de la Motte was the name of the people in the castle.

from the book DeMotte and Allied Families published in 1953 by Phoebe DeMotte-Norman and Estella DeMotte-Craig

The DeMotte name appears as Mot, Mott, DeMoedt, DeModt in early records. Michael's name is in a list of citizens who failed to appear to take the oath of English citizenship when it was administered en masse. The cildren of Michael DeMotte had their families in Jamaica, Queens, Long Island, NY and New Jersey.

SOURCE: Diana E. Barrett, e-mail Diana Barrett@Amway.com. message on the Olive Tree web page http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/17th/dny_22.htm
Film Number: 2034671 The Family Serach (IGI) on line has Michael DeMott and Annetie Westbroeck being married 1678 at Kinston, Ulster, NY.
Film Number:19040425 The Family Serach (IGI) on line has Michael DeMott and Annetie Westbroeck being married abt 1682 Beverwyck> of Albany, New York.
Film Number: 45085, Page Number: 0012, Reference Number: 72448 The Family Serach (IGI) on line has Michael DeMot being born 1652 at Kingston of Esopus, Ulster, New York.
ALIAS: de Moth, de Mot, Demott, Modt, DeMott, Demodt, Mott, De Motte
RECORDS: Children baptismal records, lands records Kingston Ny.