Nathan GOLD

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"The Talcott Pedigree": Hon. Nathaniel Gold, Jr., was a son of Major Nathan Gold, a first settler of Fairfield in 1658, who was one of the petitioners and named in the Charter of Connecticut from Charles II., which petition was "signed by no gentleman unless he had sustained a high reputation in England before he came to New England."

He was an assistant in 1671-2, and a Magistrate, and "departed this life into the mantions of rest upon the day of Rest on Saboth, it being the 4th day of March, 1693-4."

Nathaniel Gold was Deputy Governor of connecticut in 1707; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court 1712, and Deputy Governor when he died, Oct. 3, 1723, aged about 60 years. Hannah, his wife, died March 28, 1696. His second wife Sarah died Oct. 17, 1711.

Nathan married Hannah TALCOTT on 8 Feb 1683. Hannah (daughter of Lieut. Col. John TALCOTT and Helena WAKEMAN) was born on 8 Dec 1663 in Hartford, Hartford County,Connecticut; died on 28 Mar 1696. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Nathan married Sarah BURR after 1696. Sarah (daughter of Rev Jehu BURR, Jr. and Elizabeth PRUDDEN) was born in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; died on 17 Oct 1711 in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Onesimus GOLD died on 06 Mar 1773 in Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut.

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"History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield":...Son of John Gould, of Kings Langley, yeoman (will 30 June 1633,proved 18 July 1633), by wife Judith (will 6 May 1650, proved 3 Sept. 1650). Judith m. (2) bylicense 20 Sept 1639, Simon Gould, of Bovingdon, co. Herts, a distant cousin of her first husband. She was buried at Watford, co. Herts, 15 May 1650. She left money to be sen to new England "for my son Nathan and my daughter Sarah their own children"; other children, Hannah, Mary, Abel, Lydia, Elizabeth; another son, Zaccheus,died before her, "unltra marinis coelebis", unmarried.
Nathan is first seen at Milford, whence he soon removed to Fairfield; m. (1) between 1648 and 1655, Martha, widow of Edmund Harvey. In 1657, Winthrop worte of Gold's wife at Fairfield as suffering from hypocondraiaca." Perhaps she did not long survive; Martha's name has not been found in Fairfield records following her marriage to Gold, though he was later recorded as responsible for the portions of her children...

Nathan married Martha ? between 1648 and 1655. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]