I AM A DIRECT DESCENDANT OF THE MARQUIS MOTE,(DE LA MOTTE) THEY WERE FRENCH HUGUENOTS BEFORE THEY WERE DRIVEN OUT OF FRANCE. HE WENT TO HOLLAND AFTER HE WAS DRIVEN FROM FRANCE. HE WAS BORN IN 1670 IN FRANCE I AM DESCENDED FROM HIS GRANDSON JEAN WHO CHANGED HIS NAME TO JOHN ABRAHAM AFTER HE CAME TO THE US, WHERE HE MARRIED SARAH(?) AND HAD FOUR SONS JONATHAN, DAVID, JEREMIAH, AND JOHN, HE FIRST SETTLED IN CHESTER CO., PENNSYLVANIA