When Esther Gold was born on 18 May 1767, in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, David Gold, was 39 and her mother, Abigail Hill, was 35. She married Increase Sherwood about 1794. She died on 1 January 1819, at the age of 51, and was buried in Townsendville, Lodi, Seneca, New York, United States.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
New York is the 11th state.
Serving the newly created United States of America as the first constitution, the Articles of Confederation were an agreement among the 13 original states preserving the independence and sovereignty of the states. But with a limited central government, the Constitutional Convention came together to replace the Articles of Confederation with a more established Constitution and central government on where the states can be represented and voice their concerns and comments to build up the nation.
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Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial name from German Gold, Yiddish gold ‘gold’. In North America it is often a shortened form of one of the many compound artificial names of which Gold is the first element.
English and German: from Middle English go(u)ld, or Old English and Old High German gold ‘gold’, applied as a metonymic occupational name for someone who worked in gold, i.e. a refiner, jeweler, or gilder, or as a nickname for someone who either had many gold possessions or bright yellow hair.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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