Notes for Machiel DeMOTT

Notes for Machiel DeMOTT

SOURCE: LDS Film # 1035591
ALIAS: Machgiel, Magiel, Michael, Michiel DeMoedt, de Mot
Michael de Mott purchased a tract of land lying between the hills of the Pequannack river in Morris county New Jersey, known as Pompton Plains. The paper for his land was given October 9, 1704, He soon after removed from Bergen county to the new estate
and located, built and lived in the house still standing and known as the "De Mott Place" He was a blacksmith by trade, also a farmer by occupation, and he built his blacksmith shop at the south end of his dewelling his house and atached to it.
SOURCE: State of New Jersey Historical Society page 899