Asa Mott

Born: Before 1799 probably in North Carolina

Died: About 1825 probably in Tennessee

Private, 15th Reg't (Johnson's) Mississippi Militia

20 Jan 1815 - 27 Mar 1815

Asa is the son of William Mott and Sarah Collins. He married Mary Roberts on 19 Jul 1817 in Greene County, Tennessee. Mary is the daughter of William Roberts and is a sister to Joseph Roberts of Mine Lick Creek. We do not know her mother's name. Asa and Mary had two children before he died at a young age in about 1825.

MIGRATION HISTORY: William Mott's father was Joseph Mott. He is documented as being on the Peedee River in South Carolina in 1754. Mott historians claim there are two lines of Motts. One is of French Hugenot ancestry via Charleston, South Carolina. Joseph and William are NOT attributed to this line. Instead, they are believed to have migrated down to South Carolina from Virginia. Joseph is in Washington County, Georgia in 1793 but is not there in 1803. Joseph and William along with other Motts relocated to the Mississippi Territory before the states of Mississippi (1817) and Alabama (1819) were formed. Our Asa ancestor is known to have been in the Mississippi Territory as early as 1812.

Asa enrolled as a volunteer in the Mississippi Territory militia on 20 Jan 1815. He was a member of his uncle Lovelace Mott's Company in Johnson's Regiment. He is discharged in March of 1815 and then shows up again in Greene County, Tennessee to marry Mary in July of 1817. His service record is attached below.

After he marries Mary in 1817, they return to Mississippi/Aabama. Their first child, Rebecca, is born in 1819 a couple months before Alabama becomes a state. She was born in what is now Clarke County, Alabama. Next the young couple return to Greene County, Tennessee where he has a 12 acre grant surveyed and registered in 1823. Their second child, a son Amos Travis, is born in Nov 1823. So, I am guessing he was born in Greene County, Tennessee and Asa and Mary relocate to Mine Lick Creek in spring of 1824 where he dies shortly thereafter.

Mary remarries to Barnett Kemp after Asa died. Their one and only child is born in Dec 1825. Barnett had been appointed guardian over Asa's two children. Barnett files a grant on Mine Lick Creek which included "Asa Mott's improvement". Evidently Asa and Mary had migrated to Mine Lick Creek by then and had perhaps intended to settle there.

Kemp dies and Mary remarries a third time to Thomas Logan Whitefield in 1848 - no children by this union.

Mary dies and is buried in the Allison-Kemp Cemetery in Ditty, Putnam County, Tennessee. She has an engraved tombstone which we believe was erected by her son, Amos Travis. We assume she is buried next to Asa so a VA tombstone has been erected "in memory of" Asa and placed next to her. But, for the record, we have no proof that he is buried there.

The 5th Chapter of Mott History is attached below.