Mary 'Polly' Thurston

1786 - 1856  (70 years)

• Name	Mary 'Polly' Thurston  [1, 2]
  Birth	1 Jan 1786	Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, USA   [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  FSID	LHW3-NV9
  Death	3 Mar 1856	Essex, Essex, Massachusetts, USA   [1, 2]
  Burial	McKinley Cemetery, Tremont, Hancock, Maine, USA   [1]
  		Cemetery-McKinley (Tremont ME)
  Person ID	I6486	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

  Father	Ambrose Thurston,   b. 21 Nov 1762, Rockport, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 1820, Rockport, Knox, Maine, USA (Age 57 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Mary 'Molly' Gamage,   b. 24 Oct 1762, Rockport, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. Abt 1841, Rockport, Essex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 78 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	9 Jan 1784	Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA   [3, 4]
  	Mary Lane and Ambrose Thurston
  Family ID	F6030	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Isaac Gott,   b. 28 Jun 1787, Gott Island, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 27 Mar 1866, Bass Harbor, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 78 years)
  Marriage	14 Mar 1809	Gott Island, Hancock, Maine, USA   [5, 6]
  Children	1. Nancy F Gott,   b. 8 Nov 1819, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA  [natural]   2. Mary Gamage 'Polly' Gott,   b. 18 Dec 1809, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 1894, Tremont, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 84 years)  [natural]   3. Isaac Gott,   b. 11 Oct 1811, Bass Harbor, Hancock, Maine, USA d. Bef 11 Jun 1860 (Age < 48 years)  [natural]   4. Serena Merrill Gott,   b. 8 May 1813, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 1 Apr 1877, Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 63 years)  [natural]  [related]   5. Hannah Gott,   b. 11 Mar 1815, Bass Harbor, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 29 Oct 1838, Tremont, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 23 years)  [natural]   6. Almira Gott,   b. 8 Feb 1821, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA d. Feb 1898 (Age 77 years)  [natural]   7. James S Gott,   b. 17 Aug 1817, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA  [natural]   8. Lydia H. Gott,   b. 31 Jan 1823, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA  [natural]   9. Nancy Thurston Gott,   b. 29 Apr 1820, Eden, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 29 Jul 1888, Tremont, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 68 years)  [natural]
  Family ID	F6105	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 1 Jan 1786 - Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, USA Marriage - 14 Mar 1809 - Gott Island, Hancock, Maine, USA Death - 3 Mar 1856 - Essex, Essex, Massachusetts, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S9] Ancestry.com, U.S., Find a Grave Index, 1600s-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2012;). [S3340] Ancestry.com, Geneanet Community Trees Index, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2022;). [S61] World Family Tree, (Name: Family Tree Maker;), Gott.FTW. [S871] Ancestry.com, Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011;). Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 [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.