Family: William Gott / Elizabeth Wanson (F6014)

• Male William Gott

  
  

  Birth	17 Apr 1715
  Death	Bef 1752
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  Marriage	16 Nov 1741  [1]
  Father	Samuel Gott | F7447 Group Sheet
  Mother	Margaret Andrews | F7447 Group Sheet

  
  

  Female Elizabeth Wanson

  
  

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  Other Spouse	Stephen Butler | F2159
  Marriage	12 Dec 1752
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  Female Anna Gott

  
  

  Birth	2 Sep 1740	Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA
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  Spouse	John Gamage | F193
  Marriage	15 Aug 1765

  
  

  Male William Gott

  
  

  Birth	13 Aug 1746
  Death	18 Aug 1746
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  Male William Gott

  
  

  Birth	6 Dec 1747
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  Spouse	Sarah Gamage | F1139
  Marriage	27 Apr 1769	Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA

  
  

  Female Jemima Gott

  
  

  Birth	1744
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  Spouse	Elijah Richardson | F7464
  Marriage	8 Nov 1764	Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA

  
  

• 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