Captain Benjamin Stockbridge, Jr

1757 - 1832  (74 years)

• Name	Benjamin Stockbridge  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  Title	Captain
  Suffix	Jr
  Birth	11 Dec 1757	Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA   [1, 4]
  Baptism	11 Dec 1757
  Gender	Male
  Census	1810	Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, USA   [3]
  Census	1830	Swans Island, Hancock, Maine, USA   [5]
  Death	15 Sep 1832	Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, USA   [4]
  Burial	Hancock County, Maine, USA   [4]
  	Lane Yard at Oceanville
  Person ID	I16739	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

  Father	Benjamin Stockbridge, Sr,   b. 8 Feb 1733   d. Abt 1759, Massachusetts, USA (Age 25 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Eunice Gott,   b. 5 Apr 1738, Rockport, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 7 Mar 1832, Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 93 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	15 Nov 1755  [1, 6, 7]
  Family ID	F4851	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Dresser
  Marriage	4 Aug 1778	Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA   [2, 6]
  Family Residence	Abt 1784	Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, USA   [6]
  	Family moved from Gloucester, Massachusetts
  Family ID	F6025	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 11 Dec 1757 - Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Marriage - 4 Aug 1778 - Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Family Residence - Family moved from Gloucester, Massachusetts - Abt 1784 - Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, USA Census - 1810 - Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, USA Census - 1830 - Swans Island, Hancock, Maine, USA Death - 15 Sep 1832 - Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, USA Burial - - Hancock County, Maine, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S61] World Family Tree, (Name: Family Tree Maker;), Gott.FTW. [S28] Ancestry.com, Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011;). Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 [S517] Ancestry.com, 1810 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), Year: 1810; Census Place: Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine; Roll: 11; Page: 436; Image: 00428; Family History Library Film: 0218682. 1810 United States Federal Census [S34] Ancestry.com, Find a Grave, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;). [S163] Ancestry.com, 1830 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), 1830; Census Place: Swans Island, Hancock, Maine; Series: M19; Roll: 47; Page: 26; Family History Library Film: 0009701. 1830 United States Federal Census [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. [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.