Maria Theresa Gold Appleton was born 7 November 1786 in Pittsfield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States to Thomas Gold (1759-1827) and Martha Marsh (1765-c1827) and died 10 February 1833 Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States of unspecified causes. She married Nathan Appleton (1779-1861) 23 March 1806 in Pittsfield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States.
Maria Theresa Gold Appleton, wife of industrialist and Congressman Nathan Appleton, whom she married April 13, 1806. The couple had five children, including a daughter named Frances who later married the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in 1843. Cause of death: Tuberculosis
Children
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Thomas Gold Appleton (1812-1884) | 31 March 1812 Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts | 17 April 1884 New York City, New York | |
| Mary Appleton (1813-1889) | 18 October 1813 Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts | 1889 United States | Robert James Mackintosh (1811-1864) |
| Charles Sedgwick Appleton (1815-1835) | |||
| Frances Elizabeth Appleton (1817-1861) | 6 October 1817 Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts | 10 July 1861 Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) |
| George William Appleton (1826-1827) | |||
Siblings
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Maria Theresa Gold (1786-1833) | 7 November 1786 Pittsfield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States | 10 February 1833 Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States | Nathan Appleton (1779-1861) |
| Thomas Augustus Gold (1788-1854) | |||
| Elizabeth Sedgwick Gold (1790-1822) | |||
| Sarah Williams Gold (1793-1822) | |||
| Caroline Wolcott Gold (1795-) | |||
| Frances Jeanette Gold (1797-1826) | |||
| William Erskine Gold (1799-) | |||
| Martha Washington Gold (1801-) | |||
| Theodore Egbert Gold (1805-1841) | |||
| Charles Ruggles Gold (1808-) | |||
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