Jane Montgomery

Abt 1705 - Abt 1750  (45 years)

• Name	Jane Montgomery  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1705	Ireland
  Gender	Female
  Immigration	1738	Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA   [2]
  	Jane and Stephen Richardson left Londonderry, Ireland, with their son, James. Their son, Stephen, was born at sea on their way to America
  Death	Abt 1750
  Person ID	I6525	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

  Family	Stephen Richardson,   b. Abt 1700   d. Abt 1747 (Age 47 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1730	Ireland   [1]
  	Soldier Stephen Richardson and Lady Jane Montgomery eloped without their families' blessings
  Children	1. Stephen Richardson,   b. 23 Oct 1738   d. 20 May 1812, Bass Harbor, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 73 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Elijah Richardson,   b. 1741, Windham, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. Hugh Richardson,   b. Abt 1741  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   4. Thomas Richardson,   b. 26 Aug 1739, Londonderry, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA d. 17 Feb 1813, Bass Harbor, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 73 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   5. James Richardson,   b. Abt 1732   d. 12 Dec 1807, Hancock County, Maine, USA (Age 75 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F2137	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - Abt 1705 - Ireland Marriage - Abt 1730 - Ireland Immigration - Jane and Stephen Richardson left Londonderry, Ireland, with their son, James. Their son, Stephen, was born at sea on their way to America - 1738 - Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Biographies and Histories		History-GOTT Sisters THREE GOTT SISTERS WHO MARRIED THREE RICHARDSON BROTHERS- Excerpt from Daniel Gott - Mount Desert Pioneer: His Ancestors and Descendents, by William Otis Sawtelle
  		History-RICHARDSON Stephen (Descendants) Lady Jane Montgomery was a member of one of the leading Scots families who settled in the Ulster area of northern Ireland during the 17th century Plantation period. Around 1729-30, she eloped with her father's ostler, Stephen Richardson, who was possibly an English soldier. Facing the ire of her family and the potential consequences of seditious…

  
  

• Sources

  [S4246] Samuel Eliot Morison, The Story of Mount Desert Island, Maine - eBooks, (Name: Little, Brown; Date: 1960;), Google eBooks: The Story of Mount Desert Island, Maine -- The People of Mount Desert: Richardson. James Richardson, fellow pioneer at Somesville with Abraham Somes, was the offspring of an early Lady Chatterley’s Lover affair. His fa­ther, head gardener to a Scots laird, secretly married his em­ployer’s daughter, Lady Jane Montgomery; they eloped to America, and James was their son. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Story_of_Mt_Desert_Island_Maine/_w7YswEACAAJ?hl=en History-The People of Mount Desert This tells the story of how the Richardsons from whom we are descended initially came to Maine. [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