Benjamin Gott

1773 - 1824  (50 years)

• Name	Benjamin Gott  [1, 2]
  Birth	21 Apr 1773	Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	11 Apr 1824	Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA   [1, 2, 3]
  Person ID	I16348	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

  Father	Daniel Gott, Jr,   b. 23 Dec 1739, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 6 Jul 1814, Tremont, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 74 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Hannah Norwood,   b. Bef 9 Sep 1744, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 18 Nov 1836, Gott Island, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age > 92 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	20 Sep 1761	Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA
  Family ID	F11384	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Lydia Morgan,   b. 1780, Maine, USA
  Marriage	29 Nov 1796	Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA   [3, 4]
  Children	1. Susan T Gott,   b. 13 Mar 1808, Tremont, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 30 Jul 1873, Ellsworth, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 65 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Benjamin Gott,   b. 13 Sep 1801   d. 23 Feb 1870 (Age 68 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. John Morgan Gott,   b. 2 Jul 1812  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   4. Ezra D Gott,   b. Jun 1817, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA bur. Lost at Sea  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   5. Elanor 'Ellen' Gott,   b. 24 Mar 1820, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   6. Elizabeth Gott,   b. 24 Aug 1824, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   7. Lydia Gott,   b. 6 Jan 1797  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   8. David Gott,   b. Jul 1811, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   9. Margaret Gott,   b. 28 Aug 1805  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   10. Joseph Gott,   b. 1 Aug 1807, Tremont, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 20 Dec 1873 (Age 66 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   11. Mary 'Polly' Gott,   b. 26 Oct 1803, Tremont, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 22 Mar 1885, Tremont, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 81 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F6049	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 21 Apr 1773 - Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA Marriage - 29 Nov 1796 - Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA Death - 11 Apr 1824 - Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Biographies and Histories

  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…

  
  

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• Sources

  [S614] Ancestry.com, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, 1847-2011, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT ; Date: 2011;). The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, 1847-2011 [S78] World Family Tree, (Name: Family Tree Maker;), Gott.FTW. [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