Charles Gott (abt. 1600 - abt. 1667)

Born about 1600 in Cambridgeshire, England [uncertain]

Husband of Gift (Palmer) Gott — married 30 Oct 1625 in St Andrew the Great, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England

Descendants

Died about 23 Jan 1667 at about age 67 in Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Charles Gott migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See Great Migration Begins, by R. C. Anderson, Vol. 2, p. 798) Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm

Biography

This profile is part of the Gott Name Study.

Charles Gott ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]} was born about 1600 based on the date of his marriage.^[1]

30 October 1625, Charles married Gift Palmer at St. Andrew the Great, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire.^[2][3] Gift or perhaps Gist was born about 1602. She deposed in March of 1668 that she was about sixty-six,^[5] and was still living when her husband made his will Jan 1667/8.^[1]

Charles and his wife sailed to New England, 1628, on the Abigail, in company with the future Governor Endicott and others.^[6] They settled first at Salem, Massachusetts, where he owned various parcels of land and later, about 1654, moved to Wenham, Massachusetts^[1]

Charles Gott was a founding member of the church at Salem, Massachusetts, and in a letter to Governor Bradford 30 July 1629, explained how the pastor and teacher were chosen for the church.^[4] He was a deacon of the Salem church and gave up this position when he moved to Wenham^[7][8]

Mr. Charles Gott requested to be a freeman 19 Oct 1630 and was admitted 18 May 1631,^[9] and served on several juries in the following years^[10]

Charles was allowed by the Colony government to sell "strong water"^[8]

He served as representative from Salem to the General Court in 1635, was town selectman.^[6][8]

He acted as agent and attorney for Hugh Peters and others who put their affairs in his hands.^[1]

Charles died 23 Jan 1667 in Wenham.^[11] The town records say he died 15 11m 1667,^[12] but considering that his will was dated the 23rd, Anderson points out that the 23rd is the preferred date.^[1] Charles Gott, Sr. of Wenham, wrote a will 23 Jan 1667/8, that was proved 31 March 1668.^[13] He made bequests to his wife, and sons Charles and Daniel. His inventory was made 26 Jan 1667 and was valued at £191 15s, about £126 in real estate and his house and barn.^[1]

Children

1. Deborah, bpt. Salem 12 Feb 1636/7.^[14] died before her father without issue
2. Charles bpt Salem June 1639;^[14] m. (1) Sarah Dennis and (2) Lydia Clark
3. Danyell Gott bpt Salem 28 June 1646;^[14] m. Elizabeth Morris, daughter of Thomas Morris of New Haven.

Anderson's Great Migration lists only the three children with baptismal records in Salem. Charles and Daniel are the only children mentioned in Charles' will. Two other children are sometimes mentioned. Citing no references or evidence, Edith G Mills claims the following children.^[15]

1. Remember b. c. 1626
2. Bethia b. c. 1627

The couple was married in 1625. It is reasonable that they had children before Deborah in 1636/7, there is also a substantial gap between Charles and Danyell. But no records, indicate who these children might have been, if they existed. No other information was found about Bethia. When John Fiske died his wife Remember administered his estate. Charles Gott testified to having heard Fiske mention a gift to his son Samuel.^[16] There is nothing about this statement that indicates a family relationship, but a Remember has been assigned as a sister of Charles Gott.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6} Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society,1995. pp 799-801 Link AmericanAncestors ($)
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Torrey, Clarence Almon. "Charles Gott's Wife." The American Genealogist 12:134- Link AmericanAncestors ($)
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} "England Marriages, 1538–1973 ," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NJ1S-Q5Z : 10 December 2014), Charles Gott and Gist Palmer, 30 Oct 1625; citing Saint Andrew The Great,Cambridge,Cambridge,England, reference , index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 496,700.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Perley, Sidney. The History of Salem, Massachusetts (S. Perley, Salem, Mass., 1924-28)
5. ↑ Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, 1636-1686 (The Essex Institute, 1911-1975) 4:9
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} Young, Alexander. Chronicles of the First Planters of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay (Charles C. Little and James Brown, Boston, 1846) [https://archive.org/stream/chroniclesfirst00youngoog#page/n46/mode/2up p. 30 + footnote
7. ↑ Anderson: Citing Essex County, Massachusetts, Deeds 1:23
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1 8.2} Felt, Joseph B. The annals of Salem, from its first settlement. Israel Thorndike Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) DLC. Salem, W. & S.B. Ives, 1827. p. 113 See also pp 27, 74, 113, 132, 221, 279, 529
9. ↑ Shurtleff, Nathaniel. Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England (William White, Boston, 1853-) 1:80, 366
10. ↑ Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, 1636-1686 (The Essex Institute, 1911-1975) 2:182, 3:5, 73, 117, 281.]
11. ↑ Anderson: This date was recorded in his inventory documents
12. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch Record: FHZT-Q2S : 20 May 2022), Charles Gott, 15 Nov 1667; citing Death, Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007011143.
13. ↑ Massachusetts, Essex County, probate records, 1638-1881 Family Search Record: [1]
14. ↑ ^{14.0 14.1 14.2} Records of the 1st Church in Salem, Massachusetts, 1629-1736. Essex Institute, 1974. Deborah p 16; Charles p 17; Danyell p 21
15. ↑ Mills, Edith G. "Research in Progress: The Gott Family." The Essex Genealogist 3:2 (1983) Link at AmericanAncestors ($)
16. ↑ Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County Vol IX p. 95, pp 131, 132

• Torrey, Clarence A. New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (CD version) (NEHGS, Boston, MA: 2001)
• Cutter, William Richard. Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Volume 2 Lewis historical Publishing Company, 1908. p. 866
• Allen Myron Oliver. The History of Wenham Civil and Ecclesiastical from Its Settlement in 1639 to 1860. Printed by Bazin & Chandler 1860. [2]
• "Gott's Island, Maine" American History and Genealogy Project website. Citing: A History of Swan's Island, Maine, by H.W. Small, MD, Ellsworth Me, Hancock County Publishing Company, Printers, 1808.
• House of Names shows migration date and much history of Gott Name:[3]

See also

• Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)