Lydia Dodge Gott

1815 - 1849  (33 years)

• Name	Lydia Dodge Gott  [1]
  Birth	25 Dec 1815  [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	19 Jul 1849
  Census	1860	Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA   [1]
  	Age: 44; Daughter of Jane and Nathaniel Gott
  Person ID	I15086	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

  Father	Nathaniel Gott,   b. 7 Nov 1791, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 22 Oct 1867, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA (Age 75 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Jane Richardson Dodge,   b. Abt 1798   d. 19 Jun 1869 (Age 71 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	31 Dec 1814  [2, 3]
  Family ID	F5408	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Thomas B Finney
  Marriage	26 Sep 1839	Sedgwick, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Family ID	F2079	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Marriage - 26 Sep 1839 - Sedgwick, Hancock, Maine, USA Census - Age: 44; Daughter of Jane and Nathaniel Gott - 1860 - Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S100] Ancestry.com, 1860 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2009;), Year: 1860; Census Place: Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine; Page: 615; Family History Library Film: 803438. [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. [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.