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Family: William Gilley, Jr / Clarissa Gott (F6092)

• Male William Gilley, Jr

  
  

  Birth	11 Sep 1782	Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Death	17 Sep 1872	Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Burial		Stanley Cemetery, Cranberry Isles, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Marriage	26 Feb 1826  [1, 2]	Cranberry Isles, Hancock, Maine, USA  [1, 2]
  Other Spouse	Hannah Boynton Lurvey | F6091
  Marriage	30 Nov 1802	Maine, USA
  Father	William Gilley, Sr | F8913 Group Sheet
  Mother	Eunice Bunker | F8913 Group Sheet

  
  

  Female Clarissa Gott

  
  

  Birth	6 Nov 1808	Tremont, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Death
  Burial
  Other Spouse	David Cates | F175
  Marriage
  Father	Deacon Nathaniel Gott | F6051 Group Sheet
  Mother	Elizabeth 'Betsy' Richardson | F6051 Group Sheet

  
  

• 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.