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Family: Daniel Gott / Lucy Benson (F7115)

• Male Daniel Gott

  
  

  Birth	25 Oct 1801	Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Death	Aft 1880
  Burial
  Marriage	22 Nov 1827  [1, 2]
  Other Spouse	Cornelia E Dodge | F7114
  Marriage	1 Nov 1873	Bucksport, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Other Spouse	Huldah 'Hannah' Benson | F7116
  Marriage	24 Dec 1834	Bucksport, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Father	Joseph Gott | F6125 Group Sheet
  Mother	Lydia Barton | F6125 Group Sheet

  
  

  Female Lucy Benson

  
  

  Birth	28 Dec 1808	Tremont, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Death	14 Feb 1832	Bernard, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Burial		Benson Cemetery, Bernard, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Father	Benjamin Benson | F4944 Group Sheet
  Mother	Hannah Norwood | F4944 Group Sheet

  
  

  Female Lydia Gott

  
  

  Birth	Feb 1828	Bernard, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Death	19 Feb 1847	Bernard, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Burial		Benson Cemetery, Bernard, Hancock, Maine, USA

  
  

• Sources

  [S61] World Family Tree, (Name: Family Tree Maker;), Gott.FTW. [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.