Charles Gott, Sr

1598 - 1667  (68 years)

• Name	Charles Gott  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
  Suffix	Sr
  Birth	12 Mar 1598	Brokenborough, Wiltshire, England   [3, 6, 8, 9]
  Gender	Male
  Immigration	Sep 1628	Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, USA   [3, 4, 5, 10]
  	(Charles Gott came to America with Gov. John Endicott and his company of Puritans, sailing from Weymouth, England in the Abigail)
  		Memorial-Clark and Endicott In memory of Richard Clark captain and pilot of Weymouth, who in 1583 sailed thence to join Sir Humphrey Gilbert's voyage of discovery to Newfoundland, and of John Endicott who on June 20, 1628, set forth from Weymouth in the ship "Abigail" on the expedition which led to the establishment of the plantation at Salem, Massachusetts. On 20th June…
  Religion	Puritan - helped start the First Church in Salem and later the church in Wenham  [10, 11]
  		Statue of a Puritan Roger Conant Statue
  Residence	19 Oct 1630	Massachusetts, USA   [1, 2, 10]
  	Massachusetts Application for Freemen
  Death	23 Jan 1667	Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts, USA   [3, 6, 8, 9]
  Person ID	I22134	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

  Father	Charles Gott,   b. 1572, Brokenborough, Wiltshire, England d. 1598, Brokenborough, Wiltshire, England (Age 26 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Margaret Goode,   b. 1576, Hawkesbury, Gloucestershire, England d. 7 Jan 1610, Hawkesbury, Gloucestershire, England (Age 34 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	1597	Brokenborough, Wiltshire, England   [9]
  Family ID	F3512	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Sarah Dennis,   b. Abt 1602, Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts, USA
  Marriage	Abt 1636	Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, USA   [12]
  Children	1. Daniel Gott,   b. Jun 1646, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 1715, Essex, Essex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 68 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Deborah Gott,   b. Feb 1636, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, USA  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. Charles Gott, Jr,   b. 1 Jun 1639, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 11 Feb 1707, Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 67 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F8601	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

  Family 2	Thankful 'Gift' Palmer,   b. 3 Jun 1600, Weymouth, Dorset, England d. 8 Aug 1665, Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 65 years)
  Marriage	30 Oct 1625	Cambridgeshire, England   [13]
  	(Saint Andrew the Great)
  		Church - Cathedral of St Andrews the Great Church St Andrew the Great Church St Andrews Street, Cambridge
  Children	1. Bethiah Gott,   b. Abt 1627  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Remember Gott,   b. Abt 1627  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. Charles Gott, Jr,   b. 1 Jun 1639, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 11 Feb 1707, Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 67 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F8602	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 12 Mar 1598 - Brokenborough, Wiltshire, England Marriage - 30 Oct 1625 - Cambridgeshire, England Immigration - (Charles Gott came to America with Gov. John Endicott and his company of Puritans, sailing from Weymouth, England in the Abigail) - Sep 1628 - Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Residence - Massachusetts Application for Freemen - 19 Oct 1630 - Massachusetts, USA Marriage - Abt 1636 - Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Death - 23 Jan 1667 - Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Documents

  Manifest-Ship Abigail (1628) Charles Gott

  
  

  Arms Icons & Insignia

  Arms-GOTT Gott/Gotte Coat of Arms

  
  

  Biographies and Histories » Slide Show		Bio-GOTT Charles (1st Gott in America) Charles Gott, the First Gott in America From “Ancestors & Descendants of an Ohio Gott Family” by Philip Porter Gott, 2013
  		Bio-GOTT Charles (Great Migration) The Great Migration Begins: Charles Gott
  		History-GOTT Daniel (Mt Desert Pioneer) Daniel Gott - Mount Desert Pioneer His Ancestors and Descendants by WILLIAM OTIS SAWTELLE 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…
  		History-Mt Desert - Swans Island Pierce, William MacBeth. "Gott - Mt. Desert, Swan's Island". Old Hancock County Families. Ellsworth, Maine: Hancock County Publishing, 1933. 26-29.

  
  

  Burials

  Memorial-Clark and Endicott In memory of Richard Clark captain and pilot of Weymouth, who in 1583 sailed thence to join Sir Humphrey Gilbert's voyage of discovery to Newfoundland, and of John Endicott who on June 20, 1628, set forth from Weymouth in the ship "Abigail" on the expedition which led to the establishment of the plantation at Salem, Massachusetts. On 20th June…

  
  

  Places		Church - Cathedral of St Andrews the Great Church St Andrew the Great Church St Andrews Street, Cambridge
  		Statue of a Puritan Roger Conant Statue

  
  

• Sources

  [S2224] Ancestry.com, Massachusetts, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1790-1890, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT ; Date: 1999;). Residence date: 1631 Residence place: Massachusetts Colony, MA [S2225] Ancestry.com, Massachusetts Applications of Freemen, 1630-91, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT ; Date: 2000;). Residence date: Residence place: Massachusetts [S54] Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT : Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;), Database online. [S582] Ancestry.com, U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc; Location: Provo, UT ; Date: 2010;), Place: Salem, Massachusetts; Year: 1628; Page Number: 125. [S582] Ancestry.com, U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc; Location: Provo, UT ; Date: 2010;), Place: Salem, Massachusetts; Page Number: 798. [S6595] Find a Grave: GOTT Charles Sr 1600-1667, Charles Gott Sr. [S3219] Ancestry.com, England, Select Marriages, 1538-1973, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT ; Date: 2014;). [S375] Ancestry.com, New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT ; Date: 2013;). New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635 [S12] Ancestry.com, Geneanet Community Trees Index, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT ; Date: 2022;). [S27] 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. [S579] 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. Daniel Gott - Mount Desert Pioneer Daniel Gott - Mount Desert Pioneer: His Ancestors and Descendants [S78] World Family Tree, (Name: Family Tree Maker;), Gott.FTW. [S6594] Find a Grave: PALMER Gift Gott 1600-1668, Thankful "Gift" Palmer Gott.