Rev Asa Wasgatt

1793 - 1879  (85 years)

• Name	Rev Asa Wasgatt  [1]
  Birth	19 Aug 1793	Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	24 Jan 1879	Hancock County, Maine, USA   [1]
  	(Beech Hill)
  Burial	Wasgatt Cemetery, Southwest Harbor, Hancock, Maine, USA   [1]
  		Cemetery-Old Burying Ground (Southwest Harbor ME)
  Person ID	I14246	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

  Father	Davis Wasgatt,   b. 11 Mar 1751   d. 27 Nov 1843, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 92 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Rachel Richardson,   b. 24 Nov 1752, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 30 Jun 1841 (Age 88 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F4907	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sarah Gott,   b. 23 Aug 1796   d. 29 Dec 1855 (Age 59 years)
  Marriage	30 Nov 1815	Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA   [2]
  Children	1. Charles Wesley Wasgatt,   b. 27 Jul 1837, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 6 May 1898 (Age 60 years)  [natural]   2. Rhoda Haines Wasgatt,   b. 7 Sep 1818, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA  [natural]   3. Thomas Wasgatt,   b. 10 May 1823, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA  [natural]   4. Asa Wasgatt,   b. 21 Sep 1816, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA  [natural]   5. Sarah Wasgatt,   b. 2 Mar 1821, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 8 Jul 1849 (Age 28 years)  [natural]
  Family ID	F4962	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 19 Aug 1793 - Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA Marriage - 30 Nov 1815 - Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA Death - 24 Jan 1879 - Hancock County, Maine, USA Burial - - Wasgatt Cemetery, Southwest Harbor, Hancock, Maine, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Headstones

  Cemetery-Old Burying Ground (Southwest Harbor ME)

  
  

• Sources

  [S515] Ancestry.com, U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;). [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.