Charity Gott

1780 - 1816  (36 years)

• Name	Charity Gott  [1, 2]
  Birth	6 Jan 1780	Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Baptism	27 Jul 1787	Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA   [2]
  Gender	Female
  Death	11 Feb 1816	Frenchboro, Hancock, Maine, USA   [1]
  	Outer Long Island
  Person ID	I13947	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

  Father	Peter Gott,   b. 17 Nov 1745, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 31 Mar 1839, Swans Island, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 93 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Charity Carter,   b. 1745, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 11 Feb 1816, Swans Island, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 71 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	Abt 1776	Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA   [3, 4]
  Family ID	F6060	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	William Rich,   b. 1792, Frenchboro, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 14 Oct 1819, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 27 years)
  Marriage	22 Dec 1812	Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Family ID	F2639	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 6 Jan 1780 - Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA Baptism - 27 Jul 1787 - Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Marriage - 22 Dec 1812 - Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA Death - 11 Feb 1816 - Frenchboro, Hancock, Maine, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

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• Sources

  [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 [S28] Ancestry.com, Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011;). Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 [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.