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Note: Gabriel Furman Mott spent his early years in St. John, New Brunswick. By March 1820, he was in Claiborne, Alabama. There is a bound volume of the Alabama Courier, Published by G.F. Mott, March 17, 1820 through February 27, 1822. The last one states that he had relinquished the publication of the Alabama Courier to Mr. Atherton T. Penniman, Jr. He and his wife no doubt removed to New York at that time. According to Mott Genealogical Charts by Edward Doubleday Harris copied at the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society ca. 1941, Gabriel F. and Ann Mott's first child, John Hinton Mott, was born at Claiborne, Alabama in 1820 and married Jane Ann Vanderburgh. Document Copy: William W. Bibb Governor of the Alabama Territory. To all who shall see these presents, Greetings: Know ye, that reposing special trust and confidence in the integrity and abilities of Gabriel F. Mott_ I do appoint him a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Mobile in the Territory aforesaid and do authorize and empower him to execute and fulfill the duties of that office according to Law; and to have and to hold the said Office, with all the power, Privileges and Emoluments to the same of right appertaining from the date hereof, unless the Governor of the Territory aforesaid for the time being, should think proper to revoke and determine this commission. In testimony whereof, I have caused these letters to be made patent and the seat of the Territory to be hereunto affixed. Given under my hand at the Town of St. Stephens the 25th day of February in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen and in the forty 40 year of the Independence of the United States of America signed Wm W. Bibb On the back of the document: "Alabama Territory, Mobile County Be it remembered that on the 26th day of March, 1819, Personally appeared before me, Charles Hall, Justice of the (_________) and for the County of Mobile, Gabriel F. Mott named in the within Commission and took the oath of Office required by law of a justice of the peace, in and for the County of Mobile in said Territory - and also the oath of fidelity to the United States of America. Given under my hand and seal on the said twenty six day of March, One thousand eight hundred and nineteen. signed Charles Hall, JQ CH (seal)
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