Bethany Cogswell

Bethany Cogswell

Female 1681 - 1755  (74 years)

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  • Name Bethany Cogswell 
    Birth 1681  Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Female 
    Death 23 Apr 1755  [1, 2
    Person ID I9201  A Tree Called Smith
    Last Modified 2 Mar 2023 

    Family Samuel Gott,   b. 16 Oct 1676, Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Nov 1748, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 72 years) 
    Marriage 22 Jul 1723  Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 4
    Children 
     1. Benjamin Gott,   b. 13 Aug 1725  [natural]
     2. Joseph Gott,   b. 13 Aug 1725, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 30 Apr 1755 (Age 29 years)  [natural]
     3. Bethany Gott,   b. 29 Sep 1727, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [natural]
    Family ID F7474  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 2 Mar 2023 

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    Link to Google MapsBirth - 1681 - Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S4] Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;), Database online.

    2. [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.

    3. [S61] World Family Tree, (Name: Family Tree Maker;), Gott.FTW.

    4. [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.