David Gott

1779 - 1814  (34 years)

• Name	David Gott  [1, 2]
  Birth	25 Dec 1779	Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA   [1]
  Baptism	28 Jul 1787	Gott Island, Hancock, Maine, USA   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	6 Jul 1814	Tremont, Hancock, Maine, USA   [1, 2]
  	Cause: Accidental Drowning
  	Drowned off Gotts Island, along with his father, and brother Charles
  Person ID	I16789	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	Joanna 'Jenny' Carter,   b. 16 Dec 1791, Blue Hill, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 12 Jan 1868 (Age 76 years)
  Marriage	3 Apr 1809	Gott Island, Hancock, Maine, USA   [2, 3]
  Children	1. Abigail Gott,   b. 20 Aug 1810, Gott Island, Hancock, Maine, USA  [natural]   2. Joanna Gott,   b. 28 Mar 1812, Sedgwick, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 25 Jun 1845, Brooksville, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 33 years)  [natural]   3. Hannah Gott,   b. 28 Mar 1812  [natural]   4. David Gott, Jr,   b. 23 Mar 1814, Blue Hill, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 31 Mar 1814 (Age 0 years)  [natural]
  Family ID	F6039	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 25 Dec 1779 - Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA Baptism - 28 Jul 1787 - Gott Island, Hancock, Maine, USA Marriage - 3 Apr 1809 - Gott Island, Hancock, Maine, USA Death - Cause: Accidental Drowning - 6 Jul 1814 - Tremont, Hancock, Maine, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Histories

  History-GOTT Daniel (Mt Desert Pioneer)

  
  

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• 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.