John Gott Richardson

1761 - 1829  (68 years)

• Name	John Gott Richardson  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
  Birth	1761	Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA   [3]
  Gender	Male
  Census	1790	Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA   [1]
  Census	1820	Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA   [5]
  Death	29 Jan 1829	Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA   [3, 4]
  Burial	Richardson Burying Ground, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA   [3]
  Person ID	I19972	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

  Father	Stephen Richardson,   b. 23 Oct 1738   d. 20 May 1812, Bass Harbor, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 73 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Elizabeth Gott,   b. 9 Mar 1734, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 15 Jun 1808, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 74 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	11 Mar 1762	Rockport, Essex, Massachusetts, USA   [6, 7, 8, 9]
  Family ID	F4934	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Hannah Wasgatt,   b. 23 Jun 1755, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Marriage	4 Jun 1810	Maine, USA
  Family ID	F7374	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

  Family 2	Sarah Gammage,   b. 1762, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 17 Apr 1810, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 48 years)
  Marriage	1 Mar 1789	Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA   [2, 6]
  Family ID	F7375	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 1761 - Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA Marriage - 1 Mar 1789 - Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Census - 1790 - Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA Marriage - 4 Jun 1810 - Maine, USA Census - 1820 - Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA Death - 29 Jan 1829 - Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S212] Ancestry.com, 1790 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), Year: 1790; Census Place: Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine; Series: M637; Roll: 2; Page: 85; Image: 62; Family History Library Film: 0568142. 1790 United States Federal Census [S28] Ancestry.com, Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011;). Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 [S515] Ancestry.com, U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;). [S518] Ancestry.com, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, 1847-2011, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011;). [S566] Ancestry.com, 1820 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), 1820 U S Census; Census Place: Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine; Page: 628; NARA Roll: M33_34; Image: 30. 1820 United States Federal Census [S269] Ancestry.com, Massachusetts, Compiled Marriages, 1633-1850, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2005;). [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. [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.