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COLONY SERVICE: Council, South Carolina, 1679-
1682. STANDS ON PUBLIC/PRIVATE ISSUES: execu-
tive leader in the Puritan government, 1654-
1657/58; supporter of Fendairs Rebellion,
1 659/60-1660; a warrant issued for his arrest in
1660/61 after the restoration of the proprietary
government probably motivated him to leave the
colony. WEALTH DURING LIFETIME. LAND AT
FIRST ELECTION: 300 acres; patented an additional
500 acres in 1658-1659; received a warrant for
1,020 acres in South Carolina, 1683. WEALTH AT
DEATH. DIED by 1695 in South Carolina; size of
estate unknown.
FUNK, JACOB (ca. 1725-1794). BORN: ca. 1725;
probably eldest son. IMMIGRATED, probably from
Virginia. RESIDED: in Frederick County (later be-
came part of Washington County); migrated to
Jefferson County, Kentucky, 1791. FAMILY BACK-
GROUND. FATHER: Jacob Funk (?-1746), died in
Frederick County, Virginia. MOTHER: Frances.
BROTHERS: Henry; John. SISTERS: Frances;
Elizabeth; Mary; and Barbara. MARRIED ca. 1749
Ann (ca. 1727-?). CHILDREN. SONS: John (ca.
1750-ca. 1818); Jacob (?-by 1793). DAUGHTERS:
Ann, who married Frederick Geiger; Mary, who
married Philip Ashert; Elizabeth, who married
Abraham Bains; and Rosina, who married Robert
Martin. PRIVATE CAREER. EDUCATION: literate.
RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION: Protestant. SOCIAL STA-
TUS AND ACTIVITIES: Gent., 1778. ADDITIONAL
COMMENTS Funk founded the town of Jerusalem
(later called Funkstown), located two and one-half
miles south of Elizabeth Town (later called Ha-
gerstown) in Washington County. Jerusalem and
Elizabeth Town were in competition to be named
the county seat. Because of the personal influence
of Gen. Daniel Heister and others, Elizabeth
Town was selected. Thereafter, Jerusalem, or
Funkstown, remained a village. In 1772 Funk
deeded land to both the Presbyterian and Lu-
theran congregations in Jerusalem for the purpose
of building churches. Funk was part of a group of
about fifty persons who migrated from Funkstown
to Kentucky in 1791. OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE:
farmer, by 1755-1763; merchant, 1768; yeoman,
1772; farmer, 1773-1777; land speculator. PUBLIC
CAREER. LEGISLATIVE SERVICE Lower House,
Frederick County, 1773-1774 (elected to the 2nd
session to fill vacancy); Conventions, Frederick
County, 2nd-3rd, 1774, 4th, 1775, 5th, 1775;
Lower House, Washington County, 1785, 1786-
1787, 1787-1788. LOCAL OFFICE: Committee of
Observation, Frederick County, elected 1775.
WEALTH DURING LIFETIME. PERSONAL PROP-
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ERTY, assessed value £237.12.6, including 1 mill,
Upper Antietam Hundred, Washington County,
1783; 1 slave, Jefferson County, Kentucky, 1793.
LAND AT FIRST ELECTION: ca. 1,700 acres in
Frederick County and ca. 420 acres in Prince
George's County (including a section called Ham-
burgh, later part of Washington, D.C., which was
divided into 287 lots). SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN
LAND BETWEEN FIRST ELECTION AND DEATH:
purchased 750 acres in Washington County be-
tween 1777 and 1779, of which 130 acres were
later sold; sold 25 lots in Hamburgh between 1780
and 1788; time of disposal of remaining Maryland
land unknown; owned 983 acres in Jefferson
County, Kentucky, plus land in other Kentucky
counties, 1793. WEALTH AT DEATH. DIED: will
probated on May 6, 1794, in Jefferson County,
Kentucky. LAND: over 7,400 acres in Kentucky.
GALE, GEORGE (1671-1712). BORN: in 1671 in
Whitehaven, Cumberland, England; younger son.
IMMIGRATED: by 1707 as a free adult from Vir-
ginia. RESIDED: in Monie Hundred, Somerset
County. ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: immigrated to
Virginia, ca. 1690. FAMILY BACKGROUND. FA-
THER: John Gale. BROTHERS: Mathias Gale, a mer-
chant of London, England; John Gale. MARRIED
first, in 1700 Mildred (?-1701), widow of Law-
rence Washington (1650-1698); daughter of Col.
Augustine Warner, of Gloucester County, Vir-
ginia. MARRIED second, Elizabeth (1674-1736),
daughter of Levin Den wood (ca. 1648-1726). Her
brothers were Levin (1670-1703); Arthur
(1671/72-1720). Her sister was Mary (1676-
1735), who married Henry Hill, son of Richard
Hill (ca. 1640-1700). CHILDREN. SONS: Levin Gale
(ca. 1704-1744), who married Leah Littleton;
George Gale (?-ca. 1772), who married Elizabeth;
John Gale (?-ca. 1744), who married Milcah Hill;
Mathias (?-1748), who married Margaret Gordon,
of Virginia. STEPSONS: Augustine Washington
(1695-1743); John Washington (1691-?). DAUGH-
TER: Mildred (January 25, 1701-March 26, 1701).
STEPDAUGHTER: Mildred Washington (ca. 1698-
?). PRIVATE CAREER. EDUCATION: literate, proba-
bly well educated. RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION: Angli-
can; his second wife was a devout Quaker, but his
children were raised as Anglicans. SOCIAL STATUS
AND ACTIVITIES, owned part of the ship Cumber-
land in the late 1600s; in 1700 he returned to
Whitehaven, England, with his wife and her chil-
dren, where she died in early 1701; a dispute over
the Washington estate brought him back to Vir-
ginia by 1704, and he moved to Maryland soon
thereafter; Gent, on arrival in Maryland; his edu-
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