William Gott

1777 - 1856  (78 years)

• Name	William Gott  [1]
  Birth	17 Oct 1777	Gott Island, Hancock, Maine, USA   [1, 2]
  Baptism	28 Jul 1787  [2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	17 Feb 1856	Gott Island, Hancock, Maine, USA   [1, 2]
  Burial	Gott Island, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Person ID	I16758	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

  Father	Daniel Gott, Jr,   b. 23 Dec 1739, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 6 Jul 1814, Tremont, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 74 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Hannah Norwood,   b. Bef 9 Sep 1744, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 18 Nov 1836, Gott Island, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age > 92 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	20 Sep 1761	Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA
  Family ID	F10511	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Susannah Milliken   d. 6 Jun 1856
  Marriage	27 Oct 1806  [2, 3]
  Children	1. Phebe Gott,   b. 29 Jun 1819, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA  [natural]   2. Salome B Gott,   b. 3 Sep 1807, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA  [natural]   3. Susanna Gott,   b. 1 Aug 1809, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA  [natural]   4. Samuel M Gott,   b. 6 Jun 1813, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA  [natural]   5. William Gott,   b. 23 Aug 1811, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 20 Feb 1890 (Age 78 years)  [natural]   6. Daniel Gott,   b. 31 May 1817, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA  [natural]
  Family ID	F6032	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 17 Oct 1777 - Gott Island, Hancock, Maine, USA Death - 17 Feb 1856 - Gott Island, Hancock, Maine, USA Burial - - Gott Island, Hancock, Maine, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Histories

  History-GOTT Daniel (Mt Desert Pioneer)

  
  

• Notes

  
  

• Sources

  [S61] World Family Tree, (Name: Family Tree Maker;), Gott.FTW. [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.