Sarah Dennis

1640 - 1665  (25 years)

• Name	Sarah Dennis  [1]
  Birth	1640	Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts, USA   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	8 Aug 1665	Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts, USA   [1, 2]
  Person ID	I19989	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

  Family	Charles Gott, Jr,   b. 1 Jun 1639, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 11 Feb 1707, Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 67 years)
  Marriage	12 Nov 1659	Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts, USA   [1, 3, 4, 5]
  Children	1. Bethiah Gott,   b. 24 Apr 1661   d. 21 Nov 1661 (Age 0 years)  [natural]   2. Charles Gott, III,   b. 7 Aug 1662, Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 11 Feb 1708 (Age 45 years)  [natural]   3. Sarah Gott,   b. 4 Jan 1664   d. 4 Jan 1664 (Age 0 years)  [natural]
  Family ID	F7492	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 1640 - Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Marriage - 12 Nov 1659 - Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Death - 8 Aug 1665 - Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S4] Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;), Database online. [S28] Ancestry.com, Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011;), Database online. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 [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.