Benjamin Stockbridge, Sr

1733 - Abt 1759  (25 years)

• Name	Benjamin Stockbridge  [1, 2, 3]
  Suffix	Sr
  Birth	8 Feb 1733  [2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Abt 1759	Massachusetts, USA   [1, 3]
  Probate	16 Jul 1759	Essex County, Massachusetts, USA   [1]
  Person ID	I13957	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

  Family	Eunice Gott,   b. 5 Apr 1738, Rockport, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 7 Mar 1832, Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 93 years)
  Marriage	15 Nov 1755  [4, 5, 6]
  Children	1. Captain Benjamin Stockbridge, Jr,   b. 11 Dec 1757, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 15 Sep 1832, Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 74 years)  [natural]
  Family ID	F4851	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Death - Abt 1759 - Massachusetts, USA Probate - 16 Jul 1759 - Essex County, Massachusetts, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S1359] Ancestry.com, Massachusetts, Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2015;), Massachusetts, Essex County, Probate Records; Author: Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court (Essex County); Probate Place: Essex, Massachusetts. Massachusetts, Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991 [S518] Ancestry.com, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, 1847-2011, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011;). [S1360] Ancestry.com, Essex, Massachusetts Probate Records, 1648-1840, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 1997;). [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. [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.