Brief Life History of Joanna
When Joanna Mott was born on 9 October 1700, in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Jacob Mott, was 38 and her mother, Cassandra Southwick, was 33. She died on 1 August 1758, in Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island, United States, at the age of 57.
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- Joanna Mott, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
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1703
The Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, as it was from June 22, 1703, when it created the counties of Providence Plantations and Rhode Island, to June 16, 1729, when Providence Plantations County was renamed Providence, Rhode Island County was renamed Newport, and Kings County was created from Providence.
Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English female personal name Motte, a pet form of Matilda. There has probably been some confusion with Moat .
German: topographic name for someone who lived by or owned property in a marshy area, from Middle High German mot ‘mud, swamp’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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