The Gotherson lineage traces back from Long Island, New York, to a rather well-to-do farmer in Surrey, England. The immigrant to England may have come from the Low Countries as "Hendrick Gothersze" possibly an earlier generation from Gothland, Sweden (Nils=Claas=Nicholas). The immigrant to America was daughter of a Quaker minister from London, who was born to nobility on Eggerton Manor in Godmersham, Kent, England.
