Ambrose Thurston

1762 - 1820  (57 years)

• Name	Ambrose Thurston  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  Birth	21 Nov 1762	Rockport, Essex, Massachusetts, USA   [2, 3, 4]
  Baptism	Between 21 Nov 1762 and 1770  [1]
  Gender	Male
  FSID	L8RP-X99
  Occupation	Carpenter on the Ship USS Merrimac
  Death	1820	Rockport, Knox, Maine, USA   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Person ID	I16752	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

  Father	Captain Captain John Thurston,   b. 30 Jun 1737, Rockport, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 25 Jun 1814, Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 76 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	11 Jun 1760  [1, 6, 7, 8]
  Family Residence	1784	Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, USA   [6]
  	Family moved from Gloucester, Massachusetts
  Family ID	F6085	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Father	Captain Captain John Thurston,   b. 30 Jun 1737, Rockport, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 25 Jun 1814, Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 76 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F13225	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary 'Molly' Gamage,   b. 24 Oct 1762, Rockport, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. Abt 1841, Rockport, Essex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 78 years)
  Marriage	9 Jan 1784	Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA   [1, 5]
  	Mary Lane and Ambrose Thurston
  Children	1. Mary 'Polly' Thurston,   b. 1 Jan 1786, Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 3 Mar 1856, Essex, Essex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 70 years)  [natural]   2. John Thurston,   b. 1 Jul 1800, Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 20 Nov 1865 (Age 65 years)  [natural]   3. Nathaniel Gamage Thurston,   b. 15 Oct 1790, Rockport, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 1 May 1856, Hancock County, Maine, USA (Age 65 years)  [natural]
  Family ID	F6030	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 21 Nov 1762 - Rockport, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Marriage - 9 Jan 1784 - Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Death - 1820 - Rockport, Knox, Maine, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

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• Sources

  [S61] World Family Tree, (Name: Family Tree Maker;), Gott.FTW. [S34] Ancestry.com, Find a Grave, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;). [S3340] Ancestry.com, Geneanet Community Trees Index, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2022;). [S891] Ancestry.com, Global, Find a Grave Index for Burials at Sea and other Select Burial Locations, 1300s-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2012;). [S871] Ancestry.com, Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011;). Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 [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. [S518] Ancestry.com, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, 1847-2011, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011;). [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.