Family: Joseph Dawes / Mary 'Polly' Gott (F5019)

• Male Joseph Dawes

  
  

  Birth	5 Mar 1796	Hancock County, Maine, USA
  Death	5 Aug 1885	Tremont, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Burial		Head of the Harbor Cemetery, Tremont, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Marriage	5 Jul 1825  [1]
  Father	Benjamin Dawes | F7884 Group Sheet
  Mother	Mary L Hodgdon | F7884 Group Sheet

  
  

  Female Mary 'Polly' Gott

  
  

  Birth	26 Oct 1803	Tremont, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Death	22 Mar 1885	Tremont, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Burial		Head of the Harbor Cemetery, Tremont, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Father	Benjamin Gott | F6049 Group Sheet
  Mother	Lydia Morgan | F6049 Group Sheet

  
  

  Male David Dawes

  
  

  Birth	Aug 1836	Maine, USA
  Death	12 Jun 1920	Swans Island, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Burial		McKinley Cemetery, Tremont, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Spouse	Sarah Jane Gott | F10057
  Marriage	Abt 1856
  Spouse	Irene May Davis | F10058
  Marriage	1887

  
  

  Female Melinda Ellen Dawes

  
  

  Birth	1846	Maine, USA
  Death	Aft 1920
  Burial
  Spouse	Simeon Butler | F13084
  Marriage	1862

  
  

  Male Samuel Dawes

  
  

  Birth	Abt 1842	Maine, USA
  Death	15 Jun 1893	Tremont, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Burial
  Spouse	Euphena Butler | F13261
  Marriage

  
  

• 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