Captain Captain John Gott
1777 - 1845 (68 years)-
Name Captain John Gott [1, 2, 3] Title Captain Birth 10 Apr 1777 Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA [1, 3] Gender Male Death 24 Nov 1845 Massachusetts, USA [1, 2, 3] Burial Grindle Hill Cemetery, Swans Island, Hancock, Maine, USA [1, 2] Person ID I5812 A Tree Called Smith Last Modified 2 Mar 2023
Father Peter Gott, b. 17 Nov 1745, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 31 Mar 1839, Swans Island, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 93 years) Relationship natural Mother Charity Carter, b. 1745, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 11 Feb 1816, Swans Island, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 71 years) Relationship natural Marriage Abt 1776 Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA [4, 5] Family ID F6060 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Ruth Barton, b. 16 May 1781, Castine, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 1 Jun 1865, Rockland, Knox, Maine, USA (Age 84 years) Marriage 23 Jul 1798 Children 1. Joseph Michael Gott, b. 17 Sep 1811, Hancock, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 3 Apr 1876, Swans Island, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 64 years) [natural] 2. Martha Gott, b. 1798, Hancock, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 7 Jan 1885 (Age 87 years) [natural] 3. John Gott, b. 1809, Hancock, Hancock, Maine, USA [natural] 4. Ambrose N Gott, b. 8 Nov 1824, Hancock, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 4 Sep 1894, Swans Island, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 69 years) [natural] 5. Edward Gott, b. 8 Jul 1814, Maine, USA d. 27 Mar 1885, Swans Island, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 70 years) [natural] 6. Hiram Gott, b. Hancock, Hancock, Maine, USA [natural] 7. Harriet Gott, b. Hancock, Hancock, Maine, USA [natural] 8. Samuel Gott, b. Hancock, Hancock, Maine, USA [natural] 9. Sally Gott, b. Hancock, Hancock, Maine, USA [natural] 10. Ruth Gott, b. Hancock, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 1844 [natural] 11. David Gott, b. Hancock, Hancock, Maine, USA [natural] 12. Prudence Gott [natural] Family ID F1816 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 2 Mar 2023
-
Event Map = Link to Google Earth
-
Notes
-
Sources - [S34] Ancestry.com, Find a Grave, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;).
- [S473] New England Historic Genealogical Society, Massachusetts, Town Death Records, 1620-1850, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 1999;).
- [S3340] Ancestry.com, Geneanet Community Trees Index, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2022;).
- [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.
- [S34] Ancestry.com, Find a Grave, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;).