Charity Carter

1745 - 1816  (71 years)

• Name	Charity Carter  [1, 2]
  Birth	1745	Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	11 Feb 1816	Swans Island, Hancock, Maine, USA   [1, 2]
  Burial	Valley Cemetery, Swans Island, Hancock, Maine, USA   [1]
  Person ID	I13930	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

  Family 1	Peter Gott,   b. 17 Nov 1745, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 31 Mar 1839, Swans Island, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 93 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1776	Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA   [3, 4]
  Children	1. Eunice Gott,   b. 23 Apr 1791, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 25 Oct 1867, Blue Hill, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 76 years)  [natural]   2. Samuel Gott,   b. 6 Jul 1785, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 1787, Hancock County, Maine, USA (Age 1 year)  [natural]   3. Mary Gott,   b. 9 Feb 1799  [natural]   4. Elizabeth Gott,   b. 23 Aug 1791, Swans Island, Hancock, Maine, USA d. Aft 23 Aug 1791, Swans Island, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age > 0 years)  [natural]   5. Captain Captain John Gott,   b. 10 Apr 1777, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 24 Nov 1845, Massachusetts, USA (Age 68 years)  [natural]   6. Ruth Gott,   b. 12 Aug 1795, Swans Island, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 14 May 1852, Swans Island, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 56 years)  [natural]   7. Margaret Gott,   b. 19 May 1779, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 19 Apr 1817, Maine, USA (Age 37 years)  [natural]   8. Charity Gott,   b. 6 Jan 1780, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 11 Feb 1816, Frenchboro, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 36 years)  [natural]   9. Peter Gott, Jr,   b. 6 Oct 1783, Hancock County, Maine, USA d. 12 Dec 1839, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 56 years)  [natural]   10. Lydia L Gott,   b. 23 Jul 1791, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 9 Mar 1877 (Age 85 years)  [natural]   11. Patience Gott,   b. 6 Aug 1787, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA d. Aft 1860 (Age > 74 years)  [natural]
  Family ID	F6060	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

  Family 2	Peter Kain,   b. 1760
  Marriage	Bef 1776
  Family ID	F958	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 1745 - Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA Marriage - Abt 1776 - Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Death - 11 Feb 1816 - Swans Island, Hancock, Maine, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S34] Ancestry.com, Find a Grave, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;). [S518] Ancestry.com, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, 1847-2011, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011;). The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, 1847-2011 [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.