Joseph Dawes

1796 - 1885  (89 years)

• Headstones

  Cemetery-Head of the Harbor (Tremont ME)

  
  

• Name	Joseph Dawes  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Birth	5 Mar 1796	Hancock County, Maine, USA   [1, 2, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Census	1850	Pond Island, Hancock County, Maine, USA
  Census	1860	Long Island Plantation, Long Island, Hancock, Maine, USA   [4]
  	Mary and Joseph Dawes
  FSID	LV5Z-7WK
  Death	5 Aug 1885	Tremont, Hancock, Maine, USA   [1, 2]
  Burial	Head of the Harbor Cemetery, Tremont, Hancock, Maine, USA   [1]
  		Cemetery-Head of the Harbor (Tremont ME)
  Person ID	I14343	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

  Father	Benjamin Dawes,   b. 1776, Boothbay Harbor, Lincoln, Maine, USA d. 1845, Maine, USA (Age 69 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Mary L Hodgdon,   b. 1780, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 16 Jan 1873, Seal Cove, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 93 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	23 Oct 1797	Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Family ID	F7882	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary 'Polly' Gott,   b. 26 Oct 1803, Tremont, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 22 Mar 1885, Tremont, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 81 years)
  Marriage	5 Jul 1825  [5]
  Children	1. David Dawes,   b. Aug 1836, Maine, USA d. 12 Jun 1920, Swans Island, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 83 years)  [natural]   2. Samuel Dawes,   b. Abt 1842, Maine, USA d. 15 Jun 1893, Tremont, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 51 years)  [natural]   3. Melinda Ellen Dawes,   b. 1846, Maine, USA d. Aft 1920 (Age > 75 years)  [natural]
  Family ID	F5006	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 5 Mar 1796 - Hancock County, Maine, USA Death - 5 Aug 1885 - Tremont, Hancock, Maine, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S515] Ancestry.com, U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;). [S1407] Ancestry.com, Maine, Veterans Cemetery Records, 1676-1918, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2020;), "Maine, Veterans Cemetery Records, 1676-1918," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KXQZ-B3X : 13 March 2018), Joseph Daws, 05 Aug 1885; citing Death, , State Archives, Augusta; FHL microfilm 1,001,836. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KXQZ-B3X [S1746] Ancestry.com, Maine, U.S., Death Records, 1761-1922, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), Maine State Archives; Cultural Building, 84 State House Station, Augusta, ME 04333-0084; 1892-1907 Vital Records; Roll Number: 14. Maine, U.S., Death Records, 1761-1922 [S100] Ancestry.com, 1860 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2009;), The National Archives in Washington D.C.; Record Group: Records of the Bureau of the Census; Record Group Number: 29; Series Number: M653; Residence Date: 1860; Home in 1860: Long Island Plantation, Hancock, Maine; Roll: M653_438; Page: 303; Family History. 1860 United States Federal Census [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.