Rebecca Gott

1725 - 1737  (12 years)

• Name	Rebecca Gott  [1]
  Birth	17 Mar 1725	Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts, USA   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	14 Nov 1737	Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts, USA   [1]
  	The death of John and Martha's children is a pathetic and tragic reminder of the terrible toll extracted by an epidemic of 'throat distemper' which raged in New England 1736-38
  Burial	Wenham Cemetery, Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts, USA   [1]
  Person ID	I418	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

  Father	John Gott, Jr,   b. 6 Jun 1694, Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 5 Jan 1761, Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 66 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Martha Kimball,   b. 18 Nov 1693, Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 30 Jun 1750, Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 56 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	16 Oct 1715  [2]
  Family ID	F5958	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 17 Mar 1725 - Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Death - 14 Nov 1737 - Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S9563] Find a Grave: GOTT Rebecca. [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