Solomon Gott Thurston

1783 - 1854  (71 years)

• Name	Solomon Gott Thurston  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Birth	21 Feb 1783	Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, USA   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	4 Aug 1854	Rockport, Knox, Maine, USA   [2, 3, 4, 5]
  Burial	Amsbury Hill Cemetery, Rockport, Knox, Maine, USA   [3]
  Person ID	I16923	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, 5, 6, 7]
  Family Residence	1784	Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, USA   [5]
  	Family moved from Gloucester, Massachusetts
  Family ID	F6085	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sarah Gott,   b. 26 May 1786, Gott Island, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 13 Aug 1869, Rockport, Knox, Maine, USA (Age 83 years)
  Marriage	14 Mar 1809  [5, 7]
  Children	1. William Henry Thurston,   b. 18 Aug 1826, North Haven, Knox, Maine, USA d. 14 Oct 1912, Rockport, Knox, Maine, USA (Age 86 years)  [natural]   2. Mary Ann Thurston,   b. 28 Apr 1832, North Haven, Knox, Maine, USA d. 18 Apr 1912, Rockport, Knox, Maine, USA (Age 79 years)  [natural]   3. Sophronia Wescott Thurston,   b. Abt 1819, Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, USA  [natural]   4. Daniel Thurston,   b. 1822, Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, USA  [natural]   5. Solomon Thurston,   b. 6 Oct 1811, North Haven, Knox, Maine, USA d. 1892, Camden, Knox, Maine, USA (Age 80 years)  [natural]   6. Martha Gott Thurston,   b. 1812   d. 1895 (Age 83 years)  [natural]   7. Hannah Greenlaw Thurston,   b. 28 Oct 1817, Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 18 Sep 1881, North Haven, Knox, Maine, USA (Age 63 years)  [natural]
  Family ID	F6096	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 21 Feb 1783 - Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, USA Death - 4 Aug 1854 - Rockport, Knox, Maine, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S61] World Family Tree, (Name: Family Tree Maker;), Gott.FTW. [S425] Ancestry.com, U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011;), Volume: 241. U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 [S9] Ancestry.com, U.S., Find a Grave Index, 1600s-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2012;). [S3340] Ancestry.com, Geneanet Community Trees Index, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2022;). [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.