The Huguenots of Colonial South Carolina 
By Arthur Henry Hirsch, Ph.D.
1928, Duke University Press
reprinted 1962 by Archon Books
(pp )

   To the ravages of time and the elements are due the destruction of material
that contained the secrets of a man well known in the province, but of whose
life records few are preserved. This man was Jacob Motte, Register of the
Province in the last half century of its history. At the time of his death his
property was valued at £228,301, of which £188,000 was in the form of promissory
notes, bonds, book accounts, and other debts due him. He was a confirmed money
lender. His son's wife, Rebecca Brewton Motte, was one of the most beloved of
the women of the province.[114] In the vestibule of St. Phillip's Church,
Charleston, a marble slab is mounted in her honor. The Mottes are said to be
descended from the Marquis de la Motte, who left France prior to the Revocation.
They established residences in England and in Ireland. John Abraham de la Motte
was one of the Dublin colony who moved to Charles Town about 1700. Jacob de la
Motte was a Commissioner of the Church Act of 1706.[115]
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114 MS Pr. Ct. Rcd., 1771-4, 27.

115 MS Archives, Colonial Dames, no. 21, p. 51; Cooper, Statutes, II. 288.

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