Elizabeth 'Betsy' Richardson

1767 - 1841  (74 years)

• Name	Elizabeth 'Betsy' Richardson  [1]
  Birth	14 Apr 1767  [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Religion	Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA   [2]
  	One of the original members of First Church/Church of Christ
  Death	27 Jun 1841  [1, 2]
  Burial	Gott's Island Cemetery, Tremont, Hancock, Maine, USA   [1]
  	Gott's Island Cemetery
  		Gott's Island Cemetery (also known as Great Gott Island Cemetery) Gott Island, Tremont, Hancock, Maine Find a Grave: #2388780
  Person ID	I30954	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

  Father	Stephen Richardson,   b. 23 Oct 1738   d. 20 May 1812, Bass Harbor, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 73 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Elizabeth Gott,   b. 9 Mar 1734, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 15 Jun 1808, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 74 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	11 Mar 1762	Rockport, Essex, Massachusetts, USA   [2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
  Family ID	F4962	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Deacon Nathaniel Gott,   b. 11 Feb 1765, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 27 Jan 1841, Gott Island, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 75 years)
  Marriage	28 Nov 1786	Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA   [1, 2, 4]
  Children	1. Jane Gott,   b. 8 Dec 1792   d. 1857 (Age 64 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Mary Gott,   b. 11 Nov 1794   d. 24 May 1830 (Age 35 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. Judith Gott,   b. Abt 1801   d. Dec 1829 (Age 28 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   4. Elizabeth 'Betsy' Gott,   b. 20 Aug 1787, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 19 Jul 1867 (Age 79 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   5. Hannah Gott,   b. 13 Feb 1789, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 21 Jun 1869 (Age 80 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   6. Esther Gott,   b. 17 Nov 1790  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   7. Deborah Gott,   b. 13 Oct 1796, Gott Island, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 17 Nov 1851 (Age 55 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   8. Clarissa Gott,   b. 6 Nov 1808, Tremont, Hancock, Maine, USA  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   9. Dorinda Gott,   b. 13 Mar 1815, Cranberry Isles, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 29 Oct 1899, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA (Age 84 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   10. Asenath Gott,   b. 20 Nov 1802   d. 29 Jul 1852, Maine, USA (Age 49 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   11. Lucinda Gott,   b. 8 Dec 1811   d. 19 Dec 1832 (Age 21 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   12. Nathaniel Gott, II,   b. 23 Dec 1806, Gott Island, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 25 Mar 1844, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA (Age 37 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   13. Rhoda Gott,   b. 10 Oct 1800, Tremont, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 1878, Hancock County, Maine, USA (Age 77 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F6093	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Religion - One of the original members of First Church/Church of Christ - - Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA Marriage - 28 Nov 1786 - Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S8071] Find a Grave: RICHARDSON Elizabeth Gott 1767-1841, Elizabeth “Betsy” Richardson Gott. BIRTH: 14 Apr 1767 DEATH: 15 May 1844 (aged 77) BURIAL: Gott's Island Cemetery, Tremont, Hancock County, Maine MEMORIAL ID:65642212 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65642212/elizabeth-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. [S276] Ancestry.com, Massachusetts, Compiled Marriages, 1633-1850, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT ; Date: 2005;). [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 [S78] World Family Tree, (Name: Family Tree Maker;), Gott.FTW. [S10737] Find a Grave: GOTT Elizabeth Richardson1734-1808, Elizabeth Gott Richardson. Wife of Stephen Richardson https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/69055897/elizabeth-richardson