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Family: John Thurston / Nancy F Gott (F2103)

• Male John Thurston

  
  

  Birth	1 Jul 1800	Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Death	20 Nov 1865
  Burial
  Marriage	29 Dec 1821  [1, 2]
  Father	Ambrose Thurston | F6030 Group Sheet
  Mother	Mary 'Molly' Gamage | F6030 Group Sheet

  
  

  Female Nancy F Gott

  
  

  Birth	10 Feb 1802	Sedgwick, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Death	1886	Tremont, Hancock, Maine, USA
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  Father	Charles Gott | F6068 Group Sheet
  Mother	Susan Thurston | F6068 Group Sheet

  
  

  Female Lydia Thurston

  
  

  Birth	1840
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  Male John Thurston

  
  

  Birth	1830
  Death
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  Male Charles Thurston

  
  

  Birth	7 Jan 1824
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  Male James Thurston

  
  

  Birth	1824
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  Male Solomon Thurston

  
  

  Birth	1831
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  Female Fanny Thurston

  
  

  Birth	1835
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  Male Louis Thurston

  
  

  Birth	1841
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  Male Daniel Thurston

  
  

  Birth	1844
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  Female Susan Thurston

  
  

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• Sources

  [S22] Pierce, William MacBeth, Old Hancock County Families, (Name: Hancock County Publishing; Location: Ellsworth, Maine; Date: 1933;), Gott - Mt. Desert, Swan's Island, Pages 26 - 29. Charles Gott came to America with Gov. John Endicott, and his company of Puritans, sailing from Weymouth, England, in the "Abigail", June 20, 1628, and arriving at Naumkeag (Salem, Mass.,) Sept. 6, 1628. He died in Wenham, Mass., Jan. 15, 1668. [S528] William Otis Sawtelle, Daniel Gott - Mount Desert Pioneer, (Date: 1926;), Daniel Gott - Mount Desert Pioneer: His Ancestors and Descendants, 929.2 G6852. NOTES ON THE GOTTS OF NEW ENGLAND The name of Gott is of Old English origin, meaning a water way or water course, to be recognized in our word gutter and gut, meaning a channel of restricted limits. As early as the fourteenth century Gotts appear in the English records and later as residents in Yorkshire and in Kent. A diligent search among the parish records of Old England has failed to locate the antecedents of Charles Gott and his wife Sarah, first of the name in New England. In the publications of the British Records Society the name is frequently met with and also in the numerous English county genealogies; but no mention of any Charles Gott of whom Hubbard thus speaks: “With Mr. Endicot in the year 1628 came Mr. Gotte, Mr. Brokenbury, Mr. Davenport and others who being added to Capt. Trask’s preparations for a new colony that was coming over.” The Captain Trask mentioned by the New England historian was Captain William Trask and it is interesting to note this early mention of two family names well known in the Mount Desert region. As the history of any region is contained in family records I make no apology in presenting these papers relating to the Gotts of New England who spread from Salem, Massachusetts, to Connecticut and to New York; to various parts of Maine, especially Mount Desert where many of them were among the first permanent settlers. La Petite Plaisance of Champlain is our Gott’s Island of today; a name for which the lack of euphony is more than compensated by its significance in the pioneer history of Mount Desert.