Ancestry of
Story Gott

(1764–1841)

Story Gott

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • John Gott 
  • Mother:
  • Anne Trotter   
  • Birth Date:
  • 30 Nov 1764 
  • Birth Location:
  • Colchester, New London, Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 5 Jun 1841 
  • Death Location:
  • Spencertown, Austerlitz, Columbia, New York 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Spencertown Cemetery, Spencertown, Austerlitz, Columbia, New York 
  • Notes: 

  • Revolutionary War veteran

    D.A.R. #A046461

    Story Gott, in his Revolutionary War pension application, said that he lived in Colchester, Connecticut, until he was ten years old at which time he moved to Austerlitz, New York. This would have been about 1774.

    Story Gott stated in his pension application that he was born 30 NOV 1764 in Colchester. A record of births in his family bible and submitted with the application gives it as 30 NOV 1765.

    Story Gott testified for the pension application of his brother John's widow Sarah (Rowland) Gott in 1840. He clearly states that John (b. 1762) is his brother.

• Marriages for Story Gott

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  • Spouse:
  • Polly Wilcox
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1 Mar 1787
  • Marriage Location:
  • New York

• Sources for Story Gott

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A046461.
  • ² Federal Census, NY, Columbia County, 1790, Hillsdale, Image 2 of 6.
  • ³ Federal Census, NY, Columbia County, 1800, Hillsdale, Image 20 of 25.
  • ⁴ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 06/03/2020).
  • ⁵ New York, U.S., Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1790-1890, 1840, p. 103, Record for Story Gott, age 74.
  • ⁶ Revolutionary War Pensions, W23129, Pension file for Story Gott and his widow Polly Gott.
  • ⁷ U.S., Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900, W32129, Widow's pension for Polly Gott, widow of Story Gott.
  • ⁸ Gott, Philip Porter and Frank Burton Gott, Ancestors and Descendants of an Ohio Gott Family, 1628-1972: Fourteen Generations of Gotts in the United States . . ., Fort Lauderdale, Florida: n. p. (1972), 27-28, 79, 141-142, 145-149, 166-167.
  • ⁹ Howe, Henry, Historical Collections of Ohio in Three Volumes: An Encyclopedia of the State, Vol. 3, Columbus: Henry Howe and Son (1891), 400.
  • ¹⁰ Sawtelle, William Otis, Daniel Gott, Mount Desert Pioneer: His Ancestors and Descendants, n. p.: n. p. [1926], 8.
  • ¹¹ Wilcox, Reynold Webb, Wilcoxson-Wilcox, Webb and Meigs Families, New York: The National History Society (1938), 66.