Family: Solomon Thurston Gott / Margaret Douglas (F4897)

m. 31 Dec 1835


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  • Solomon Thurston Gott Male
    Solomon Thurston Gott

    Birth  1 Aug 1810  Sedgwick, Hancock, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
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    Marriage  31 Dec 1835  [1, 2, 3]  Brooksville, Hancock, Maine, USA  [1, 2, 3] Find all individuals with events at this location
    Father  Charles Gott | F6069 Group Sheet 
    Mother  Lovis 'Lois' Thurston | F6069 Group Sheet 

    Margaret Douglas Female
    Margaret Douglas

    Birth  20 May 1815  Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Death  13 Jan 1874   
    Burial    Walker Cemetery, Brooksville, Hancock, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Other Spouse  Amos Thurston Gott | F5313 
    Marriage  23 Jul 1850   
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  • Sources 
    1. [S518] Ancestry.com, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, 1847-2011, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011;).

    2. [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.

    3. [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.