Family: William Gott / Mary C 'Polly' Smith (F2154)

• Male William Gott

  
  

  Birth	23 Aug 1811	Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Death	20 Feb 1890
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  Marriage	25 Jan 1838  [1]	Orland, Hancock, Maine, USA  [1]
  Father	Captain William Gott | F6040 Group Sheet
  Mother	Susannah Milliken | F6040 Group Sheet

  
  

  Female Mary C 'Polly' Smith

  
  

  Birth	1817	Massachusetts, USA
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  Male Enoch Gott

  
  

  Birth	11 Aug 1844	Orland, Hancock, Maine, USA
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  Male David S. Gott

  
  

  Birth	20 Jul 1846	Orland, Hancock, Maine, USA
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  Spouse	Emma S Gray | F130
  Marriage	27 Nov 1867	Orland, Hancock, Maine, USA

  
  

  Male Captain William Albert Gott

  
  

  Birth	21 Dec 1841	Orland, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Death	1874
  Burial		Oak Grove Cemetery, Orland, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Spouse	Tamson E Gross | F160
  Marriage	27 Mar 1860	Orland, Hancock, Maine, USA

  
  

  Female Tamison Gott

  
  

  Birth	1847	Hancock, Hancock, Maine, USA
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  Male Richard B. Gott

  
  

  Birth	14 Sep 1851	Orland, Hancock, Maine, USA
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  Spouse	Cora E Bowden | F333
  Marriage	29 Nov 1888	Orland, Hancock, Maine, USA

  
  

  Female Eunice S Gott

  
  

  Birth	13 Jan 1839	Orland, Hancock, Maine, USA
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• Sources

  [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