Engelbart Lott, was settled at New Castle, on the west bank of the Delaware River, about thirty-five miles below Philadelphia. At the time of this marriage, he owned a considerable tract of land and marsh on Christiana Creek, in New Castle County, and two lots in the town of New Castle. This property he continued to hold for several years subsequent to his removal to Long Island, but he eventually disposed of it by deed, Sept. 1, 1707, to Abraham Santford, John Harbadink, and Jane Tuttle. Toward the close of the year 1682, New Castle, with the adjacent territory, became united with the province of Pennsylvania, under William Penn. Shortly after this union was affected, he took the Oath of Allegiance and promising fidelity and lawful obedience to William Penn, the Proprietor and Governor of that province, in compliance with an act passed at Chester at the Colonial Legislature of Pennsylvania.

He was on terms of intimacy and friendship with Gov. Penn, who held out strong inducements for him to remain at New Castle; but the unhealthiness of the place and surrounding country, together with an ejectment suit which had been several years pending before the Court of Sessions, then held at Gravesend, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, on Long Island, in which Derick Jansen Hoghlandt was plaintiff, and his father, Peter Lott, defendant, caused him to remove.

In 1682, with his wife, Cornelia, he came to Flatbush, on Long Island, with a view to make it his permanent residence, and purchased a house and about two acres of land situated on the easterly side of the road and a short distance  south of the Erasmus Hall Academy, near the property of Teunis G. Bergen. In the month of December, in the same year of his removal, he and his wife Cornelia were admitted on certificate, as members in full communion of the Reformed Dutch Church of Flatbush, then under the pastoral charge of the Rev. Casparus Van Zuren.

In 1688 he hired for farming purposes from the church of Flatbush, a tract of land situated on the south side of the road leading to New Lots, and north of the land of John Stryker, with the salt meadows thereto appertaining, for the term of seven years, at the yearly rent of 225 guilders, payable in sewant, or in wheat,  to be delivered at Brooklyn Ferry at the current price. In 1709, he disposed of his house and two acres of land, and purchased from Daniel Polhemus and Neltje, his wife, the southerly one-third part of the farm of the Rev. Johannes Theodorus Polhemus, the first minister of the Reformed Dutch Churches in Kings county. In 1698 he was appointed High Sheriff of the county of Kinds by Richard, Earl of Bellomont, Governor of the Province of New York. He lived on his farm until the time of his death, in 1730. Signed his name “Engel Bart Lott.” (Ref: 28:191; 48:183/4)

Res: New Castle, Delaware; Flatbush, L.I.

<i>Source: pg 7.</i>