Peter Gott b. 17 Nov 1745 Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 31 Mar 1839 Swans Island, Hancock, Maine, USA: Smith Family Tree

Peter Gott

1745 - 1839 (93 years)

Name	Peter Gott [1, 2, 3]
Birth	17 Nov 1745	Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA [3, 4]
Gender	Male
Death	31 Mar 1839	Swans Island, Hancock, Maine, USA [2, 3, 4]
Burial	Valley Cemetery, Swans Island, Hancock, Maine, USA [3]
Person ID	I16643	A Tree Called Smith
Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

Father	Stephen Gott, Sr, b. 18 Sep 1731, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 1773, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 41 years)
Relationship	natural
Mother	Patience Gott, b. 18 Aug 1737, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. Oct 1824, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 87 years)
Relationship	natural
Marriage	9 Jan 1755	Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA [1, 4, 5, 6, 7]
	(both named Gott)
Family Residence	Abt 1763	Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA [4]
	Family moved from Gloucester, Massachusetts
Marriage End	Stephen divorced Patience for adultry after she had two children with Andrew Tarr while Stephen was in the Army
Family ID	F6098	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Father	Stephen Gott, b. 2 Apr 1705, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA
Relationship	natural
Mother	Eunice Emmons, b. Abt 1706
Relationship	natural
Marriage	13 Nov 1729 [1, 4, 5]
Family ID	F6157	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family 1	Hannah Norwood, b. Bef 9 Sep 1744, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 18 Nov 1836, Gott Island, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age > 92 years)
Marriage	6 Oct 1824 [1, 4, 5]
	Hannah was widow of Peter's uncle, Daniel
Family ID	F6166	Group Sheet \| Family Chart
Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

Family 2 Charity Carter, b. 1745, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 11 Feb 1816, Swans Island, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 71 years)

Marriage Abt 1776 Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA [4, 5, 8]

Children

	1. Eunice Gott, b. 23 Apr 1791, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 25 Oct 1867, Blue Hill, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 76 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	2. Samuel Gott, b. 6 Jul 1785, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 1787, Hancock County, Maine, USA (Age 1 year) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	3. Mary Gott, b. 9 Feb 1799 [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	4. Elizabeth Gott, b. 23 Aug 1791, Swans Island, Hancock, Maine, USA d. Aft 23 Aug 1791, Swans Island, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age > 0 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	5. Ruth Gott, b. 12 Aug 1795, Swans Island, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 14 May 1852, Swans Island, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 56 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	6. Captain John Gott, b. 10 Apr 1777, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 24 Nov 1845, Massachusetts, USA (Age 68 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	7. Margaret Gott, b. 19 May 1779, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 19 Apr 1817, Maine, USA (Age 37 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	8. Charity Gott, b. 6 Jan 1780, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 11 Feb 1816, Frenchboro, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 36 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	9. Lydia L Gott, b. 23 Jul 1791, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 9 Mar 1877 (Age 85 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	10. Patience Gott, b. 6 Aug 1787, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA d. Aft 1860 (Age > 74 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	11. Peter Gott, Jr, b. 6 Oct 1783, Hancock County, Maine, USA d. 12 Dec 1839, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 56 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]

Family ID F6165 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 21 Jul 2025

Event Map

	Birth - 17 Nov 1745 - Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA
	Marriage - Abt 1776 - Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA
	Death - 31 Mar 1839 - Swans Island, Hancock, Maine, USA

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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…

Sources

[S78] World Family Tree, (Name: Family Tree Maker;), Gott.FTW.
[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
[S5833] Find a Grave: GOTT Peter 1745-1839, Peter Gott.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/79078980/peter_gott
[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
[S276] Ancestry.com, Massachusetts, Compiled Marriages, 1633-1850, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT ; Date: 2005;).
[S6539] Find a Grave: GOTT Patience Tarr 1737-1824, Patience Gott Gott Tarr.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/184208763/patience_tarr
[S5832] Find a Grave: CARTER Charity Gott 1745-1821, Charity Carter Cain Gott.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/79303027/charity_gott

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