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Family: Charles Gott, Jr / Sarah Dennis (F7492)

• Male Charles Gott, Jr

  
  

  Birth	1 Jun 1639	Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, USA
  Baptism	Jun 1639
  Death	11 Feb 1707	Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts, USA
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  Marriage	12 Nov 1659  [1, 2, 3, 4]	Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts, USA  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Other Spouse	Lydia Clark | F7491
  Marriage	25 Dec 1665	Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts, USA
  Father	Charles Gott, Sr | F8643 Group Sheet
  Mother	Sarah Dennis | F8643 Group Sheet

  
  

  Female Sarah Dennis

  
  

  Birth	1640	Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts, USA
  Death	8 Aug 1665	Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts, USA
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  Female Bethiah Gott

  
  

  Birth	24 Apr 1661
  Death	21 Nov 1661
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  Male Charles Gott, III

  
  

  Birth	7 Aug 1662	Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts, USA
  Death	11 Feb 1708
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  Spouse	Elizabeth gott | F6066
  Marriage	Between 1686 and 1688	Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts, USA

  
  

  Female Sarah Gott

  
  

  Birth	4 Jan 1664
  Death	4 Jan 1664
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• Sources

  [S4] Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;), Database online. [S61] World Family Tree, (Name: Family Tree Maker;), Gott.FTW. [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.