Peter Gott, Jr

1783 - 1839  (56 years)

• Name	Peter Gott  [1, 2]
  Suffix	Jr
  Birth	6 Oct 1783	Hancock County, Maine, USA
  Gender	Male
  Census	1830	Hancock County, Maine, USA   [2]
  	(Moose Island)
  Death	12 Dec 1839	Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA   [1]
  	Cause: Lost at Sea
  	Peter and son, Alpheus, were killed near Cape Ann The storm was a significant one called “the Cape Ann Gale”. The men were in the schooner “Eliza and Betsy” which was driven ashore and wrecked.
  Person ID	I13951	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	Pauh Richardson,   b. 1 Jan 1789   d. 31 Jan 1882 (Age 93 years)
  Marriage	12 Dec 1807
  Children	1. Betsey Gott,   b. 13 Apr 1812, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA  [natural]   2. Joanna Gott,   b. 19 Jun 1825, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA  [natural]   3. Lydia M Gott,   b. 20 Nov 1829, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 6 Apr 1879 (Age 49 years)  [natural]   4. Benjamin Gott,   b. Between 1816 and 1820, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA  [natural]   5. William Gott,   b. 2 Feb 1820, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA  [natural]   6. Peter Gott,   b. 22 Nov 1814, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA  [natural]   7. Alpheus Gott,   b. 10 Feb 1812, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 15 Dec 1839 (Age 27 years)  [natural]   8. Martha Lane,   b. 5 Aug 1816, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 30 Oct 1890 (Age 74 years)  [related]  [natural]
  Family ID	F4848	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 6 Oct 1783 - Hancock County, Maine, USA Census - (Moose Island) - 1830 - Hancock County, Maine, USA Death - Cause: Lost at Sea - 12 Dec 1839 - Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Histories		History-GOTT Daniel (Mt Desert Pioneer)
  		History-Great Storm of 1839

  
  

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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;). [S163] Ancestry.com, 1830 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), 1830; Census Place: Moose Island, Hancock, Maine; Series: M19; Roll: 47; Page: 76; Family History Library Film: 0009701. 1830 United States Federal Census [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.