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Family: Charles Gott / Lovis 'Lois' Thurston (F6069)

• Male Charles Gott

  
  

  Birth	25 Apr 1771	Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Death	6 Jul 1814	Tremont, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Burial	Lost at Sea
  Marriage	8 Aug 1809  [1, 2]
  Other Spouse	Susan Thurston | F6068
  Marriage	29 Nov 1796
  Father	Daniel Gott, Jr | F10511 Group Sheet
  Mother	Hannah Norwood | F10511 Group Sheet

  
  

  Female Lovis 'Lois' Thurston

  
  

  Birth	Aft 1783	Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Death
  Burial
  Other Spouse	Hooper | F130
  Marriage	Bef 1809
  Father	Captain Captain John Thurston | F6085 Group Sheet
  Mother	Eunice Gott | F6085 Group Sheet

  
  

  Female Hannah Gott

  
  

  Birth	1 Dec 1814	Sedgwick, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Death
  Burial
  Spouse	Daniel Douglas | F2127
  Marriage	15 Apr 1836	Brooksville, Hancock, Maine, USA

  
  

  Male Solomon Thurston Gott

  
  

  Birth	1 Aug 1810	Sedgwick, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Death
  Burial
  Spouse	Margaret Douglas | F4897
  Marriage	31 Dec 1835	Brooksville, Hancock, Maine, USA

  
  

  Female Eunice Thurston Gott

  
  

  Birth	6 Oct 1812	Sedgwick, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Death	Aft 1870
  Burial
  Spouse	Joseph Herrick, Jr | F250
  Marriage

  
  

• 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.