Elizabeth 'Betsy' Thurston

1815 - 1887  (72 years)

• Name	Elizabeth 'Betsy' Thurston  [1, 2]
  Birth	31 Aug 1815	Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, USA   [2]
  Gender	Female
  Death	23 Sep 1887	Hancock County, Maine, USA   [2]
  Burial	Stonington, Hancock, Maine, USA   [2]
  Person ID	I6506	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

  Father	Amos Thurston,   b. 20 Oct 1772, Rockport, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 14 Jun 1850, Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 77 years)
  Relationship	related
  Mother	Mary Gott,   b. 25 Aug 1775, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 1866, Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 90 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	29 Nov 1796	Rockport, Essex, Massachusetts, USA   [1, 3]
  Family ID	F2083	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Isaac Gott,   b. 11 Oct 1811, Bass Harbor, Hancock, Maine, USA d. Bef 11 Jun 1860 (Age < 48 years)
  Marriage	30 Nov 1836  [1, 3]
  Children	1. Isaac Gott,   b. 1860  [natural]   2. Sarah F Gott,   b. 1852  [natural]   3. David Gott,   b. 1837  [natural]   4. Elizabeth Gott,   b. 1839  [natural]   5. Thurston N Gott,   b. 1844  [natural]   6. James B. Gott,   b. 1841  [natural]   7. Mary A Gott,   b. 1850  [natural]
  Family ID	F2101	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 31 Aug 1815 - Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, USA Death - 23 Sep 1887 - Hancock County, Maine, USA Burial - - Stonington, Hancock, Maine, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

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  [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. [S9] Ancestry.com, U.S., Find a Grave Index, 1600s-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2012;). [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.