Amos Thurston Gott

1805 - 1878  (73 years)

• Name	Amos Thurston Gott  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Birth	24 Sep 1805	Sedgwick, Hancock, Maine, USA   [1, 2, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Census	1860	Brooksville, Hancock, Maine, USA   [2]
  	Married to Margaret
  Death	1 Dec 1878  [1, 3]
  Burial	Walker Cemetery, Brooksville, Hancock, Maine, USA   [1]
  Person ID	I14980	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

  Father	Charles Gott,   b. 25 Apr 1771, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 6 Jul 1814, Tremont, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 43 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Susan Thurston,   b. 27 Sep 1775, Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 12 Oct 1808, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 33 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	29 Nov 1796  [4, 5, 6]
  Family ID	F6068	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Margaret Douglas,   b. 20 May 1815, Maine, USA d. 13 Jan 1874 (Age 58 years)
  Marriage	23 Jul 1850  [4, 6]
  	Margaret was the widow of Amos's brother, Solomon
  Family ID	F5313	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

  Family 2	Joanna Gott,   b. 28 Mar 1812, Sedgwick, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 25 Jun 1845, Brooksville, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 33 years)
  Marriage	1831	Blue Hill, Hancock, Maine, USA   [4, 6]
  	(both named Gott)
  Children	1. Johanna H Gott,   b. 12 May 1839, Brooksville, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 12 May 1865, Brooksville, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 26 years)  [natural]   2. Eunice Gott,   b. 8 Jan 1842, Brooksville, Hancock, Maine, USA  [natural]   3. Margaret Helen Gott,   b. 12 May 1839, Brooksville, Hancock, Maine, USA  [natural]   4. Selena Gott,   b. 23 Aug 1836, Brooksville, Hancock, Maine, USA  [natural]   5. Etta Adell Gott,   b. Brooksville, Hancock, Maine, USA  [natural]
  Family ID	F5314	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 24 Sep 1805 - Sedgwick, Hancock, Maine, USA Marriage - 1831 - Blue Hill, Hancock, Maine, USA Census - Married to Margaret - 1860 - Brooksville, Hancock, Maine, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

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• Sources

  [S34] Ancestry.com, Find a Grave, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;). [S100] Ancestry.com, 1860 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2009;), Year: 1860; Census Place: Brooksville, Hancock, Maine; Roll: M653_438; Page: 705; Family History Library Film: 803438. [S518] Ancestry.com, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, 1847-2011, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011;). [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. [S4] Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;), Database online. Record for Lois (Lovis) Thurston [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.