Captain John Gott

1777 - 1845  (68 years)

• Name	John Gott  [1, 2, 3]
  Title	Captain
  Birth	10 Apr 1777	Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA   [1, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	24 Nov 1845	Massachusetts, USA   [1, 2, 3]
  Burial	Grindle Hill Cemetery, Swans Island, Hancock, Maine, USA   [1, 2]
  Person ID	I5825	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

  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   [4, 5, 6]
  Family ID	F6165	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Ruth Barton,   b. 16 May 1781, Castine, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 1 Jun 1865, Rockland, Knox, Maine, USA (Age 84 years)
  Marriage	23 Jul 1798
  Children	1. Joseph Michael Gott,   b. 17 Sep 1811, Hancock, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 3 Apr 1876, Swans Island, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 64 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Ambrose N Gott,   b. 8 Nov 1824, Hancock, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 4 Sep 1894, Swans Island, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 69 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. Samuel Gott,   b. 1804, Swans Island, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 13 Aug 1887, Swans Island, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 83 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   4. Martha Gott,   b. 1798, Hancock, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 7 Jan 1885 (Age 87 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   5. John Gott,   b. 1809, Hancock, Hancock, Maine, USA  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   6. Edward Gott,   b. 8 Jul 1814, Maine, USA d. 27 Mar 1885, Swans Island, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 70 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   7. Harriet Gott,   b. Hancock, Hancock, Maine, USA  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   8. Hiram Gott,   b. Hancock, Hancock, Maine, USA  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   9. Sally Gott,   b. Hancock, Hancock, Maine, USA  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   10. Ruth Gott,   b. Hancock, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 1844  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   11. David Gott,   b. Hancock, Hancock, Maine, USA  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   12. Prudence Gott  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F1856	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 10 Apr 1777 - Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA Death - 24 Nov 1845 - Massachusetts, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

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• Sources

  [S3674] FamilySearch - Find a Grave. [S558] New England Historic Genealogical Society, Massachusetts, Town Death Records, 1620-1850, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT ; Date: 1999;). [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 [S5832] Find a Grave: CARTER Charity Gott 1745-1821, Charity Carter Cain Gott. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/79303027/charity_gott