Stephen Richardson

1768 - 1853  (84 years)

• Name	Stephen Richardson  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  Birth	4 May 1768	Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA   [1, 2, 3, 5]
  Gender	Male
  Census	1790	Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA   [4]
  Census	1850	Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA   [5]
  	Margaret and Stephen Richardson
  Death	1853	Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA   [2, 3]
  Burial	Richardson Burying Ground, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA   [2]
  Person ID	I14181	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

  Father	Stephen Richardson,   b. 23 Oct 1738   d. 20 May 1812, Bass Harbor, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 73 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Elizabeth Gott,   b. 9 Mar 1734, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 15 Jun 1808, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 74 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	11 Mar 1762	Rockport, Essex, Massachusetts, USA   [6, 7, 8, 9]
  Family ID	F4934	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Margaret 'Peggy' Webber,   b. 1774, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 1862, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 88 years)
  Children	1. Margaret 'Peggy' Richardson,   b. 7 May 1798, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 15 May 1880, Ellsworth, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 82 years)  [natural]
  Family ID	F4938	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 4 May 1768 - Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA Census - 1790 - Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA Census - Margaret and Stephen Richardson - 1850 - Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA Death - 1853 - Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S693] Ancestry.com, Massachusetts, Death Records, 1841-1915, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2013;), New England Historic Genealogical Society; Boston, Massachusetts; Massachusetts Vital Records, 1840???1911. Massachusetts, Death Records, 1841-1915 [S515] Ancestry.com, U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;). [S425] Ancestry.com, U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011;), Volume: 290. [S212] Ancestry.com, 1790 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), Year: 1790; Census Place: Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine; Series: M637; Roll: 2; Page: 83; Image: 61; Family History Library Film: 0568142. 1790 United States Federal Census [S18] Ancestry.com, 1850 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2009;), Year: 1850; Census Place: Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine; Roll: 255. 1850 United States Federal Census [S269] Ancestry.com, Massachusetts, Compiled Marriages, 1633-1850, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2005;). [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. [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.