The motte was used for a last defence system. the people lived in the baily area and when it was under attack they would run up to the keep (the keep was at the top of the motte) and lock themselfs...
Well, she was his wife, so of course is saddened her. However, she kept working towards helping the oppressed and promoting women's right until her death in 1880.
Lucretia Mott was an American Quaker, abolitionist, social reformer, and proponent of women's rights. She is credited as the first American "feminist" in the early 19th century but was, more...
Peter Mott was a free black man who lived in New Jersey and his house was part of the underground railroad that smuggled slaves out of the South.
Link: http://www.petermotthouse.org/museum.html