. History of Wayne, Pike and Monroe counties, Pennsylvania . n the State, and waselected by an unprecedented majority—190,-743—the whole poll being less than 375,000 PIKE COUNTY. S!)3 votes. James Pollock, the Whig candidatefor Governor at the same time, was elected bya majority of 37,007. Mott received morethan three times as many votes as were givento his opponent, the whole vote being,—forMott, 274,074; for Darsie, 83,331. Darsiebeing a foreigner, the Know-Nothings prefer-red Mott, a fact which subjected the latter tothe unjust suspicion that he was secretly affili-ated with the Know-Nothin
. History of Wayne, Pike and Monroe counties, Pennsylvania . n the State, and waselected by an unprecedented majority—190,-743—the whole poll being less than 375,000 PIKE COUNTY. S!)3 votes. James Pollock, the Whig candidatefor Governor at the same time, was elected bya majority of 37,007. Mott received morethan three times as many votes as were givento his opponent, the whole vote being,—forMott, 274,074; for Darsie, 83,331. Darsiebeing a foreigner, the Know-Nothings prefer-red Mott, a fact which subjected the latter tothe unjust suspicion that he was secretly affili-ated with the Know-Nothing organization. Mr. Mott was twice married, his first wifebeing Hannah Bull, whom he married Janu-ary 31, 1832 ; and his second, Delinda Peters,daughter of the late Henry Peters, of Bush-kill, and sister of Samuel G., Charles and Wil-liam N. Peters, and of Mrs. Henry M. La Bar,who still survive. By his first marriage he hadfour children, only one of whom survives,—Mrs. Jacob Kleinhans, of Milford. By hissecond wife he also had four children, two of. so^t This suspicion, however, was not entertainedby the Democrats of his own county, who elect-ed him to the State Senate in 1860, and to theConstitutional Convention of 1873. In bothbranches of the Legislature Mr. Mott was con-spicuous and effective, by reason of his strongcommon sense and native force of the sessions of the Constitutional Con-vention he was in feeble health, physically, andunable to exert himself to the extent of his na-tural inclination and intellectual ability. whom survive,—Charles Peters and SamuelDimmick Mott. Among the nephews of Mr.(usually called Colonel) Mott are Milton Dim-mick Mott, publisher of the Milford Dispatch,and Edward H. Mott, at present connected,editorially, with the New York Sun,—theauthor of Pike County Folks, and of agreat number of amusing hunting, fishing and old settler stories connected with the PikeCounty region. Colonel Mott was, in many respects, a re- W
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