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With this, we feel comfortable that this Jacob Lott in Harrison Co. is not part of our Solomon Lott family. With his birthplace in South Carolina, we don't think it would be too difficult to find which family he really belongs to. We suspect he belongs to the family of South Carolina Lotts who settled Carroll Co., MS early on.
X.	Elizabeth Lott - bom c. 1794 as explained below. She has been identified as a daughter of Solomon and Ann Lott through the oral histories of the McArthur and Seal descendants. While our James and Celia Lott McArthur family lived in south Hancock Co., we were told that “Celia had a sister” that married a “Seal” and lived around Picayune, MS., but they could not remember her first name. In Mr. S. G. Thigpen's book, “Next Door to Heaven”, p. 181-182, he tells us about Jacob Lott and his relationship to f William “Billy” Seal who was “married to one of the two sisters of Jacob Lott”. He does not give her first name, but goes on to name her four children: Amos, Solomon, William, and Ephraim Seal and various stories about them. Keep in mind that Mr. Thigpen got much of his information from descendants of this Seal family that still live around Picayune, MS. While the McArthur and Seal families were cousins, they lived about 25 miles apart and had less and less contact with each other as time went on. We now have two different lines of the same family passing on the same information in the early and mid 1900's.
In the Picayune, MS Crosby Library, there is an extensive and well documented history on the Seal family by Joyce Jones Seal titled “Seals from All Around, 1978”. In this source, she starts with this Seal family c. 1754 in Virginia. She brings them down to and beyond William “Billy” Seal, III, bom c. 1787 in Moore Co., NC . He died in Hancock Co. (now Pearl River Co.) in 1853 where his Will was probated. His four heirs listed were: Charles, William, Solomon, and Amos Seal with no widow listed (Deed bookB, p. 35).
Before William Seal and family came to MS, we find them in Marion Co., SC where he sells land on December 7, 1816 with his wife signing as “Elizabeth Seal”. It was in SC where their first three children were bom. The first record we have of William Seal in MS is where he is listed in the American State Papers, Vol. 5, p. 324 as living in Hancock Co. on “Lott's Creek” and he settled there in “March 1819”. We next find him in the Hancock Co. 1820 census with what appears to be a wife and two male children under age 10. He was bom between 1775 and 1794 and she was bom between 1794 and 1804. They appear again in the 1830 Hancock census with four males bom between 1810 and 1820. William and his wife are listed as bom between 1770 and 1790. It should be noted that in 1820, they lived a short distance from the homes of James McArthur, Elisha Lott, and Solomon Lott. William Seal shows up in the 1850 Hancock census for the last time with no wife and stating that he was bom in 1787 in North Carolina. Based on William's age and the 1820 census where Elizabeth is listed as bom between 1794 and 1804, we will assign her year of birth as c. 1794. The Seals also owned land west of the Pearl River in St. Tammany Parish, LA On February 15, 1839, we find William Seal and wife Elizabeth Seal selling 320 acres to George Mitchell (Deed Book G-l, p. 399 - 340 St. Tammany Courthouse). With this, we now have her first name. In the 1840 census of Hancock Co., we find William Seal again but no wife. With this, we
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