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Mf[e Iiott family.
Much obscurity rests on the family of Lott, difficult, in the absence Of family records, to remove. The family was originally from Holland. Tlieii' name appears early among the settlers of Flatbusli and Newtown, L. I., and wo find them intermarried with the most prominent Dutch families of those towns. From that region came Peter Lott and took up his residence in Trenton, while his brother Hendrick (1) purchased a large body of laud some six miles further up the river, a part of which he afterwards sold to Joshua Jones and Amos Scudder. Who constituted his family it seems impossible now to determine with certainty. 'Wo know through the will of his brother Peter, in which he expresses his desire to be buried with his parents on Long Island, that ho had a son Peter; this is he, probably, who lies in the Ewing Church ground, whose tombstone says Peter Lott, late of Long Island, died April 14th, 1753, aged 30. Elizabeth, who married Daniel Clark, about 1760, and Jane, who married Timothy Smith, were probably daughters of his. Individuals of this name seem to havo married into nearly all the prominent families of Ewing and Pennington. We conjecture also that the following recorded namo was a son of his :
Richard Lott (2), who died 178-1, married Letitia Phillips ; issue, Theophilus, died young in 178G, leaving his property to his brothers, Richard and Peter and to his sisters Hannah, Jane, and others; Ezekiel, married Anna Burrowes ; Richard (3); Peter, married -Miss Burrowes, and went west; Charity, married Ezekiel Howell, (see Howell family, No. 13); Mary, married Jonathau Muirheid, (see Muirheid family, No. 3); Abia, married Vincent Wetherill; Hannah, married John Wetherill, of Cranbury, and had one child, Abia, married Isaac Scudder, (see Scudder family, No. 126,) of Cranbury ; Jane, died unmarried ; Fanm, married Mr. Carlisle ; Catharine, married Thomas McDowell.
Richard (3), son of Richard (2), who died about 1847, aged 75, was twice married, first, to Fanny Burrowes, and by her had Lam-
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bert, not married ; Theophilus, married Mary Lawyer, whose children are : Richard, married Mary Simpson, Francina, died, aged 20, John, died in youth, and Mary Ann; Abigail, married Ezekiel Rose, of Salem county; John, not married ; Ebenezer, married Mary King, lived in Salem; Eliza, married Moses King,, of Salem. By his second wife, Miss Applegate, he had one son,
Richard, not married.
A Peter Lott died 1720, leaving live children, one of whom w'as Peter. The name was not unfrequent in the neighboring towns.
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