Ruth Gott

1795 - 1852  (56 years)

• Name	Ruth Gott  [1, 2]
  Birth	12 Aug 1795	Swans Island, Hancock, Maine, USA   [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Census	1850	Swans Island, Hancock, Maine, USA   [2]
  Death	14 May 1852	Swans Island, Hancock, Maine, USA   [1]
  Burial	Grindle Hill Cemetery, Swans Island, Hancock, Maine, USA   [1]
  Person ID	I5874	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   [3, 4]
  Family ID	F6060	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Captain William Stanley,   b. 18 Jun 1789, Tremont, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 18 Jan 1851, Swans Island, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 61 years)
  Marriage	13 May 1813
  Family ID	F1944	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 12 Aug 1795 - Swans Island, Hancock, Maine, USA Census - 1850 - Swans Island, Hancock, Maine, USA Death - 14 May 1852 - Swans Island, Hancock, Maine, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

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  [S34] Ancestry.com, Find a Grave, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;). [S18] Ancestry.com, 1850 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2009;), Year: 1850; Census Place: Swans Island, Hancock, Maine; Roll: M432_254; Page: 170B; Image: 341. [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.