George Gold Jr 1766 Sixth Generation

George Gold, Jr was born in Old Nazareth on May 19, 1766 and baptized the next day in Nazareth Hall Chapel by the Pastor, Franz Christian Lembke. The baptismal witnesses were Jeremiah Dencke, Martin Schenk and Mrs Rosina Fritchman. The details of his abandoning the Moravain Church are not known. The reliable Nazareth Diary has nothing to say about his departure. Members of the Church could depart on their own free will but it was then difficult for them to reapply for membership. The only reference, already cited, concerns his marriage to a Moravian girl where the Diary of Nov 24, 1794 states that her new husband, George Gold “had left the congregation many years ago.” He married Anna Rosina Ernst, daughter of Conrad Ernst, on Nov 23, 1794 in the First Reformed Church of
Easton. They were not married in the Moravian Church. So, by December, 1794 George and Anna Rosina were living In Plainfield Township, in what is now the southeastern quarter of Bushkill Township beyond Shoenecke just over the township border from the Moravian Nazareth Community.

[SEE MAP IN APPENDIX] On December 11, 1794 he bought land from John Christian Staut in Plainfield Township.
By this time, he was established as a “Schreiner” (carpenter and joiner) in Plainfield Township. Over the years George Gold Jr bought and sold a dozen properties, mostly in the southeaster part of Bushkill Township. In 1804 when their 4th child was born, George Jr and Anna were living somewhere between Boulton and Belfast. But later they moved near the Bushkill Creek about a mile southwest of the Jacobsburg Inn. Probably his most significant purchase was the famous “Rose Inn.”