Elijah Richardson

1741 -

• Name	Elijah Richardson  [1, 2, 3]
  Birth	1741	Windham, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Person ID	I20081	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

  Father	Stephen Richardson,   b. Abt 1700   d. Abt 1747 (Age 47 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Jane Montgomery,   b. Abt 1705, Ireland d. Abt 1750 (Age 45 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	Abt 1730	Ireland
  	Soldier Stephen Richardson and Lady Jane Montgomery eloped without their families' blessings
  Family ID	F2148	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Jemima Gott,   b. 1744
  Marriage	8 Nov 1764	Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA   [1, 3, 4, 5]
  Family ID	F7433	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 1741 - Windham, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA Marriage - 8 Nov 1764 - Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Histories		History-GOTT (Sisters who married Richardson Brothers)
  		History-RICHARDSON Stephen (Descendants)

  
  

• Sources

  [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 [S535] Godfrey Memorial Library, comp., American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI), (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 1999;). [S269] Ancestry.com, Massachusetts, Compiled Marriages, 1633-1850, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2005;). [S28] Ancestry.com, Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, (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.