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About Col. John Mottram
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Col. John Mottrom
- Birth: 1610 • England
- Death: 25 Feb 1655 • Chicacoan, Northumberland, Virginia; Age: 44-45
- Father: Samuel Mottrum (1590–1665)
- Mother: Elizabeth Pope (1594–1655)
Biography
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Mottrom-5
John Mottrom is a Qualifying Ancestor of the Jamestowne Society
John Mottrom was a Virginia colonist.
John Mottrom received 963 acres in Northumberland County, Virginia in 1650.
John Matrum served as Burgess from Northumberland County in 1645-6; Jno. Mott ram [sic] was reelected as Burgess from Northumberland County in 1652.[2]
Marriage & Family
Spouse (1): Mary "Anne" Spencer (1610–1645) Marriage: abt. 1638, England. She was the daughter of Nicholas Spenser and Mary Elmes.
Children:
- Anne Mottrom (1639–1707) married three times: 1) Richard Wright; 2) David Fox; 3) Saint Leger Codd
- Maj. John Mottrom (1642–1691)
- Frances Mottrom (1645–1720) married 1) Col. Nicholas Spencer 2) Rev John Boulton
Spouse (2): Ursula Byshe[3]; widow of Richard Thomson (d. 1649) Marriage: 1651, Virginia.
When John Mottrom died, Ursula married George Colclough, who died very soon after their marriage.[4]
References
- “Structuring Colonial Entanglements on the Chesapeake Landscape: Exploring Evidence of Fortification from the Coan Hall Site” Society for Historical Archaeology Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology Boston, Massachusetts. January 2020, Katherine G. Parker University of Tennessee-Knoxville. “ The Coan Hall site (44NB11), located in Northumberland County on Virginia’s Northern Neck, is the site of the first permanent English settlement on the south shore of the Potomac (Potter and Waselkov 1994:27). The site was settled by John Mottrom, a fur trader and merchant-planter who arrived at the site in the early 1640s, on land acquired from the neighboring Sekakawon (Chicacoan) tribe. …”
England was NOT the United Kingdom in 1655. (If you want to avoid this, you have to put "England" in the "State/Province" block and leave "Country" blank.)
GEDCOM Note
<p>[g675.ftw]</p><p><p></p></p><p><p>Lori Garner Elmore gives a death year of 1655.</p></p><p><p></p></p><p><p>Col. John Mottrom appears in the records of the General Court of Virginia as early as 1640, when he and Edward Fleet were commissioned to levy a party of men, or more if need require, to go in pursuit of certain runaway negroes. (Minutes of the Council and General Court of Virginia, pg. 468). Mottrom was a merchant of importance, who had his residence at York, on the York River in Virginia. York was not where the present Yorktown is situated, but it was located at the West side of Wormeley's Creek about three miles from at the West side of Wormeley's Creek about three miles from Yorktown, which was of much later origin (founded in 1691). York was founded by Sir John Harvey about 1631, and was one of the two first plantations on York River--Chiskiack above Yorktown being the other. "York County in the Seventeenth Century, Tyler's Quarterly I, pg. 231-281)". Mr. Mottrom hada shallop with which he traded with the plantations in Virginia and Maryland. The following notices of him appear in the Maryland Records: 1643, May 24, John Lewger demandeth of John Mottrom 964 lbtob. due from Angad Baker which said Angad was transported out of the province by ___Scarlett of whose surety the said John Mottrom was that he should not transport any without that were indebted upon record. The said John Mottrom required the oath of the plaintiff (Court and Testamentary Business, 1637-1650 Md.pg. 114) 1643, April 10th Capt. Tho. Cornwallis demandeth of John Mottrom 2850 lb. tob. by vertue of an assumpsit of the said John Mottrom in behalfe of ______Scarlett Skipper of Mr Gwins pinn ace, that he would be answerable to all persons claimed to upon record that should be exported out of the Colony by the said ________Scarlett without the parties consent or a lawful passage, and that since the assumpsit the said Scarlett exported Angad Baker, who was indebted as is demanded & c. Ibid. pg. 198. George Binx, gent. demandeth of John Mottrom 120 lb. Tob. for so much gowing to the plaintiff upon record from Angad Baker & c. Ibid. 204. In the York records, under date of July 5, 1645, personal property belonging to the estate of Edward Percival was carried for preservation in his boat to the house of George Ludlow, Esq.; who had succeeded to the rights of Sir John Harvey at York. There was a war with the Indians going on at this time, and Percival may have been a victim of their cruelty. About this same year Mottrom removed from York to Chicacoan at the mouth of the Potomac River. This place variously spelt, had been the seat of an Indian tribe of 30 warriors, and was now the first place of English settlement on the sought side of the Potomac river. Mottrom was a Protestant, and a mortal enemy of Lord Baltimore and his lieutenants, and his house at Chicacoan became a resort for persons inimical to his Lordships Government in Maryland, who were accused of plotting treason, and making Chicacoan a basis for their conspiracies (Archives of Maryland IV, pg. 175). Mottrom was a prime mover for the formation of the County of Northumberland, and was itsfirst representative in the House of Burgesses in 1645. He was burgess again in 1652, and was also justice and Colonel of the Militia. He died about 1655, when his will was referred to the Governorof Virginia, because of some Ambiguities in the procuring of it. (Northumberland County Records). It was probably recorded in the General Court, and, as the records of that Court were burnt up in Richmond in 1865, no copy of it can now be found. There is a chance, however, that it may have been recorded in England. His inventory is however, on record in Northumberland in 1657 and shows that hewas a man of wealth and some literary pretentions. The total of his inventory was valued at 33,896 pds of tobacco---(Virginia Magazine X, pg. 402). He married at least twice (1) name not known, (2)after 1651 Ursula Bishe of Maryland, who first married in 1641 Richard Thompson, who was an agent of William Claiborne and took refuge like many others at Chicacoan. After Mottrom's death she married George Colclough, son of Sir Caesar Colclough. (See William and Mary College Quarterly XVII, pg. 54.) Issue by the first marriage, 1. John, 2. Anne, 3. Frances, who married Nicholas Spencer, Esq., of Cople, in Bedfordshire, who immigrated to Virginia and was Secretary of Virginia from 1678 to his death Sept. 23, 1689, and acting Governor from Sept. 1683 to April 1684. Anne, who married shortly prior to March 1656-57, Richard Wright, a young merchant of London, who came to Virginia about 1655, when he was 22 years of age.</p><p><p></p></p><p>MOTTROM--WRIGHT--SPENCER--ARISS--BUCKNER (1.) John Mottrom is mentions as of York (Virginia), 1644. (Archives of Maryland, Vol. IV., 269). He was like most of the other prominent settlers, a merchant, and owned a shalop, mentioned in the York County Records, in which he traded with Maryland. About 1645 he moved to Chicacoan--the first settlement on the Virginia side of the Potomac River--where his house became a resort for Protestants inimical to the government of Lord Baltimore in Maryland, who were accused of plotting treason and making Chicacoan a basis for their conspiracies. When Northumberland County was formed, in 1645, he represented it that year in the House of Burgesses. He was Burgess again in 1652, and was also justice and Colonel of the Militia. He died about 1655, when his will was referred to the Governor because of some ambiguities in the procuring of it. It was probably recorded in the General Court, and as the records of that court were burnt up in Richmond, no copy of it can now be found. His inventory, however, in on record in Northumberland, in 1657, and shows that he was a man of wealth and literary pretensions. The total of his inventory was valued at 33,896 pds. of tobacco. ( Virginia Magazine X, 402). He married at least twice: (1). name not known; (2.) after 1651 Ursula Bish, of Maryland, who first married, in 1641, Richard Thompson. (Archives of Maryland, IV., 66) See Note for Richard Thompson at end of this article. Issue by the first marriage (2) Anne, who married Richard Wright, formerly of London, merchant, before May 20, 1658; (3) John (4) Frances, who married Nicholas Spencer, before 1663.
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Col. John Mottram's Timeline
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1610
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England
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1639
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Middlesex, Cheshire, United Kingdom
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1642
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1645
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Chicacoan Hall, Northumberland County, Virginia Colony
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February 25, 1655
Age 45
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Chicacoan, Northumberland County, Virginia, Colonial America
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