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Family: Captain Ambrose Thurston / Serena Merrill Gott (F2108)

• Male Captain Ambrose Thurston

  
  

  Birth	24 Aug 1806	Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Death	20 Apr 1886	Stonington, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Burial		Mount Rest Cemetery, Stonington, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Marriage	4 Dec 1835  [1, 2]	Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, USA  [1, 2]
  Father	Amos Thurston | F2083 Group Sheet
  Mother	Mary Gott | F2083 Group Sheet

  
  

  Female Serena Merrill Gott

  
  

  Birth	8 May 1813	Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Death	1 Apr 1877	Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Burial		Mount Rest Cemetery, Stonington, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Father	Isaac Gott | F6105 Group Sheet
  Mother	Mary 'Polly' Thurston | F6105 Group Sheet

  
  

  Male Edward Watson Thurston

  
  

  Birth	5 Oct 1855
  Death	Apr 1856	Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Burial		Mount Rest Cemetery, Stonington, Hancock, Maine, USA

  
  

  Female Nancy Thurston

  
  

  Birth	3 Apr 1846	Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Death	3 Jan 1920	Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Burial		Hillrest Cemetery, West Tremont, Hancock, Maine, USA

  
  

  Female Eunice Thurston

  
  

  Birth	19 Jul 1844
  Death
  Burial

  
  

  Male John Thurston

  
  

  Birth	16 Feb 1844	Maine, USA
  Death
  Burial

  
  

  Male Ambrose Thurston, Jr

  
  

  Birth	23 Sep 1852	Stonington, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Death	19 Jan 1892	Maine, USA
  Burial		Mount Rest Cemetery, Stonington, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Spouse	Hester Ann Weed | F14187
  Marriage

  
  

  Female Hannah Ann Thurston

  
  

  Birth	22 Aug 1836	Stonington, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Death	21 Oct 1876
  Burial		Mount Rest Cemetery, Stonington, Hancock, Maine, USA

  
  

  Female Harriet S 'Hattie' Thurston

  
  

  Birth	1 Feb 1848	Stonington, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Death	5 Nov 1872	Stonington, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Burial		Mount Rest Cemetery, Stonington, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Spouse	Ezra Dodge Gott | F9572
  Marriage	Bef 1870

  
  

• 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.