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| Notes for *Johannes Heinrich LAMOTT | ||||||||||
| 2 He came here in the ship "Phoenix" on 15 Sep 1749, as described in "Pennsylvania German Pioneers. Every LaMotte around the Pa, Md, De and Va area can be traced back to this Johann. Many well known genealogists for this area have tried to prove stories (BJ's note: about a Lafayette being related) that were passed down in the family, abut none have been proved as of yet. They were a large family, and the name LaMotte was well documented for the area. They lived in this area of Carroll County, which was originally a part of Baltimore and Frederick Counties. -------------------------------------------------- 402John Henry was " a French Protestant who, after he came to America, became a Mennonite. He never could tell his children anything about his family, saying were proud enough without knowing anything about it, but adding: "If you do not disgrace your family, it will never disgrace you". An uncle of his, Nicolas de LaMotte, came over during the Revolution with Rochambeau, and sent word to Jean Henri to come and see him, but the Mennonite refused on the ground that he was a man of peace, while Nicolas was a man of war. Nicolas, who was childless, wished to adopt one of Jean Henri's four sons, but this the father also refused." -------------------------------------------------- Sketches of the New Church In America - On a background of civic and social life : drawn from faded manuscript, printed record, and living reminiscence" by: EDNAH C. SILVER Pub. 1910 Daniel Lammot's (1782-1877)... grandfather, Jean Henri de la Motte, a Huguenot, was born in Paris in 1720, in the troublous times of little King Louis XV and he gladly fled to Switzerland, taking final refuge in America. Escaping religious persecution abroad he was also driven temporarily from his Maryland home by the hostile redskins. He resolutely clung to the new world and refused an offer of adoption for one of his four sons from his brother, General Nicholas de la Motte, who was here with the fleet of d'Estaing in our Revolutionary War. Daniel, bom in 1753, son of Jean Henri, lived in Baltimore, where he discovered the New Church. His son, Daniel 2d, in endeavoring to convince his father of the "error of his ways," became himself converted and commenced laboring for the Church under Rev, John Hargrove in 1802." (Pgs 32-33) ------------------------------------------------ | ||||||||||
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