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Family: David Gott / Joanna 'Jenny' Carter (F6039)

• Male David Gott

  
  

  Birth	25 Dec 1779	Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Baptism	28 Jul 1787	Gott Island, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Death	6 Jul 1814	Tremont, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Burial
  Marriage	3 Apr 1809  [1, 2]	Gott Island, Hancock, Maine, USA  [1, 2]
  Father	Daniel Gott, Jr | F10511 Group Sheet
  Mother	Hannah Norwood | F10511 Group Sheet

  
  

  Female Joanna 'Jenny' Carter

  
  

  Birth	16 Dec 1791	Blue Hill, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Death	12 Jan 1868
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  Female Abigail Gott

  
  

  Birth	20 Aug 1810	Gott Island, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Death
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  Spouse	Moses Friend | F238
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  Female Joanna Gott

  
  

  Birth	28 Mar 1812	Sedgwick, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Death	25 Jun 1845	Brooksville, Hancock, Maine, USA
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  Spouse	Amos Thurston Gott | F5314
  Marriage	1831	Blue Hill, Hancock, Maine, USA

  
  

  Female Hannah Gott

  
  

  Birth	28 Mar 1812
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  Spouse	Preston Preble | F2075
  Marriage	1832

  
  

  Male David Gott, Jr

  
  

  Birth	23 Mar 1814	Blue Hill, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Death	31 Mar 1814
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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.