This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gott, Obrien, Carter Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EeB.2ACE/354.1 Message Board Post: That name should be Gott's, instead of Gatt's. James, John, Joseph O'Brien and William Gott bought what is know as O'Briens Furnace, from Willaim B. Carter in 1824-25. Reference: A History of the Iron Industry in Carter County to 1860. Page 35. His reference is; Deed Book D, page 27, 414