Melancthon Smith of New York one of the most prominent men of the State during and alter the Revolution in the policy opposed to that of Alexander Hamilton. Richbell Mott Smith, one of the sons of Hon. Melancthon and Margaret (Mott) Smith died on the coiist of Japan in 1800. Another son was Colonel Melancthon Smith, the father of Admiral Melancthon Smith U. S. N. on the retired list who distinguished himself so highly during the late Civil war especially at the capture of New Orleans, and who is now living in an honored old age, at South Oysterbay L. I.

Dr. Valentine Mott, the celebrated Surgeon of New York was descended from Elizabeth (Richbell) Mott's younger son William Mott of Great Neck, -- L. I.

James Mott of Premium Point, long a well known resident of the Mamaroneck of a hundred years ago, was the only child of the first Richbell Mott's youngest son Richard, and Sarah (Pearsall) Mott, and was born in Hempstead at " the Head of the Harbor " -- now Roslyn in 1742. He married in 1765 his second cousin Mary Underbill, daughter of Samuel and Ann (Carpenter) Underbill of Oysterbay. Samuel Underbill a cousin of the Underbills of Westchester County, was a great grandson of the celebrated Capt. John Underbill who died in Oysterbay in 1671, and Ann Carpenter's mother Mary Willet, wife of Joseph Carpenter of Glencove was a grand daughter on her father's side of Capt. Thomas Willet the first English

Mayor of New York, and on her mother's side of Wm. Coddington the first Governor of Rhode Island. The Underbills and the Coddingtons and the Willets and the Motts had become Quakers. James Mott, after a few years as a successful merchant in New York retired just before the Revolution, with a moderate competence, at the early age of thirty-three and settled in Mamaroneck, on the " West Neck " of his Grandfather's grandfather, John Richbell, on the peninsula nearly in front of the Village of New Rochelle.