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at pretending to be dying because the marriage was opposed. The
Agents denounced Harriet and her consenting parents as "criminal."
Rev. Herman Vail, who had married Flora Gold (B13,9) still another
sister of Harriet, wrote a 5,000 word letter condemning the
proposed marriage against a background of Puritan orthodoxy.
Harriet's farmer father, Dea., Benjamin Gold (B13) told Herman his
charges were unjust. The deacon allowed the marriage. Brother
Stephen worked sullenly in his sawmill during the ceremony. Over in
Litchfield editor Isaiah Bunce denounced the Town of Cornwall, the
school and the missionaries and called Sarah Northrup, who had
married Cherokee John Ridge, a squaw and said that the girl should
be whipped, the Indian hung and the mother drowned. Harriet aided
her husband in elevating the Cherokee tribe to its proud position in
Georgia. Their six children became leaders of the tribe. Boudinott
translated the Bible into Cherokese. Elias Boudinott's brother, Stand
Watie, became a brigadier general in the Confederate army, the last
general to surrender to the Union. One of Harriet's half-Cherokee
sons joined the Union Army and was fatally wounded before
Richmond. Unjust Georgia laws forced the Cherokees to remove to
the West. Elias advocated the removal and was shot by men who
accused him of treachery to his own people after their arrival at
Indian territory. Harriet died just before the tragic trek West. The
children of the couple who wrote the sad and turbulent chapter of
American history were (Boudinott):
1. Elinor Susan, b. May 4, 1827. (B13,C1)
2. Mary Harriet, b. October 5, 1828. (B13,C2)
3. William Penn, b. February 4, 1830. (B13,C3)
4. Sarah Parkhill, b. February 24, 1832; d. August 29, 1845. (B13,C4)
5. Elias Cornelius, b. August 1, 1834, whose 2d wife was
Delight Sargent of Manchester, Vt., sister of Judge
Sargent. (B13,C5)
6. Frank Brinsmade, b. May 15, 1836; captain of New York
Mounted Rifles; d. as a result of fall from horse. (B13,C6)
B13,D.
Hezekiah Sedgwick Gold, 13th child of Deacon Benjamin and
Eleanor (Johnson) Gold was born June 6, 1807. He married
September 6, 1836, Chloe A. Peet. Children:
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