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Abraham Lott brief bio
In the early part of his life he went several voyages on board a trading vessel to the West Indies as supercargo, and probably part owner. In 1709 he was united in marriage to Catherine Hageman, and from that time lived with and cultivated the farm of his father, Engelbert Lott, in Flatbush.
As his father's death he became the owner of his father's farm, which he had previously cultivated. This farm was by him afterward devised to his son, Jacobus Lott, who held it during his lifetime, and upon his death it was sold to Hendrick Suydam, and is now in possession (1909) of Sarah Suydam, the wife of John Ditmas.
In May 1730, Abraham Lott obtained by purchase from the widow and children of Daniel Polhemus then deceased, the northerly two thirds of the Polhemus farm, and by this purchase, with the previous devise to him of his father's farm, he became possessed of all the land, woodland, and meadows originally patented by Gov. Stuyvesant to the Rev. Johannes Theodorus Polhemus.
In the year 1743 he was elected a Representative from the county of Kinds in the Colonial Legislature of New York, and served in that capacity one legislative term of seven years, and upon his re-election commenced another term, but did not live to see its termination.
Verbatim account from The Lott Family in America, page 15.
| Owner/Source | The Lott Family in America, by A. V. Phillips |
| Linked to | Catherine Hegeman; Abraham Lott; Jacobus Lott |
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