Thomas Atherton Gott

1829 - 1896  (67 years)

• Name	Thomas Atherton Gott  [1, 2]
  Birth	6 Apr 1829	Hancock County, Maine, USA   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Census	1850	Ellsworth, Hancock, Maine, USA   [2]
  	Age: 22; Living with Margaret and Isaac Gott
  Death	31 May 1896	Ellsworth, Hancock, Maine, USA   [1]
  Person ID	I19437	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

  Father	Isaac Gott,   b. 5 Feb 1801, Gott Island, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 17 Jun 1879, Ellsworth, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 78 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Tryphosa Day,   b. 11 Dec 1793, Bar Harbor, Hancock, Maine, USA d. Abt 1835, Ellsworth, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 41 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	7 Nov 1823	Hancock County, Maine, USA   [3, 4]
  Family ID	F7148	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Catherine M T Wasgatt
  Marriage	17 Feb 1852	Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Family ID	F7128	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 6 Apr 1829 - Hancock County, Maine, USA Census - Age: 22; Living with Margaret and Isaac Gott - 1850 - Ellsworth, Hancock, Maine, USA Marriage - 17 Feb 1852 - Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA Death - 31 May 1896 - Ellsworth, Hancock, Maine, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

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• Sources

  [S344] Ancestry.com, Maine, Death Records, 1617-1922, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), Maine State Archives; Cultural Building, 84 State House Station, Augusta, ME 04333-0084; 1892-1907 Vital Records; Roll Number: 23. Maine, Death Records, 1617-1922 [S18] Ancestry.com, 1850 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2009;), Year: 1850; Census Place: Ellsworth, Hancock, Maine; Roll: 255; Page: 324A. 1850 United States Federal Census [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.