Rachel Littlefield

1705 - 1801  (95 years)

• Name	Rachel Littlefield  [1, 2]
  Birth	19 Jan 1705	Wells, York, Maine, USA   [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Death	3 Jan 1801	Wells, York, Maine, USA   [1]
  Person ID	I16915	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

  Father	Eliab Littlefield,   b. Abt 1670, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Rachel Sibley,   b. 29 Oct 1668
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	29 Oct 1696	Manchester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA   [2]
  Family ID	F6113	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Daniel Gott, Sr,   b. 28 Mar 1703, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 1785, Gott Island, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 81 years)
  Marriage	22 Dec 1726	Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Family Residence	Abt 1768	Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA   [3]
  	Moved his family from Glouchester, Massachusetts
  Children	1. Daniel Gott,   b. 25 Oct 1728, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. Aft 1728 (Age > 1 years)  [natural]   2. John Gott,   b. 18 Sep 1732, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA  [natural]   3. Patience Gott,   b. 18 Aug 1737, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. Oct 1824, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 87 years)  [natural]   4. Rachel Gott,   b. 30 May 1730, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 22 Mar 1814, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 83 years)  [natural]   5. Elizabeth Gott,   b. 9 Mar 1734, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 15 Jun 1808, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 74 years)  [natural]   6. Margaret Gott,   b. 26 Sep 1743   d. 28 Sep 1803, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 60 years)  [natural]   7. Daniel Gott, Jr,   b. 23 Dec 1739, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 6 Jul 1814, Tremont, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 74 years)  [natural]
  Family ID	F10524	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

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  Birth - 19 Jan 1705 - Wells, York, Maine, USA Marriage - 22 Dec 1726 - Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Family Residence - Moved his family from Glouchester, Massachusetts - Abt 1768 - Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA Death - 3 Jan 1801 - Wells, York, Maine, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

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  [S4] Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;), Database online. [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.