Historical records matching Col. John Mottram
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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
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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. …”
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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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