Lydia Gott

1793 - 1862  (68 years)

• Name	Lydia Gott  [1, 2]
  Birth	2 Feb 1793  [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Female
  Death	1862  [2]
  Burial	Mount View Cemetery, Camden, Knox, Maine, USA   [2]
  Person ID	I16926	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

  Father	Joseph Gott,   b. 4 Mar 1769, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 30 Apr 1839, Little Gott Island, Hancock County, Maine, USA (Age 70 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Lydia Barton,   b. 26 Apr 1769, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 10 Aug 1831, Hancock County, Maine, USA (Age 62 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	5 May 1790	Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA   [3, 4, 5]
  Marriage End	1831  [3]
  	Death of Lydia in 1831
  Family ID	F6125	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	William Hopkins,   b. 1798   d. 1866 (Age 68 years)
  Family ID	F4880	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

• Histories

  History-GOTT (Mt Desert - Swans Island)

  
  

• Sources

  [S61] World Family Tree, (Name: Family Tree Maker;), Gott.FTW. [S515] Ancestry.com, U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;). [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. [S4] Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;), Database online. [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.