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Baltimore County. PRIVATE CAREER. EDUCATION:
literate; may have entered the College of New Jer-
sey (later Princeton University) in 1774, but was a
nongraduate. RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION: Anglican.
OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE: owned 5 mill seats and
races and probably a sawmill; his inventory in-
cluded "2,600 ft. of pine plank for decking ves-
sels" ; first president of the Baltimore branch of
the Bank of the United States, established in Feb-
ruary 1792; stockholder in the Havre de Grace
Company, established ca. 1795. PUBLIC CAREER.
LEGISLATIVE SERVICE Lower House, Somerset
County, 1784 (resigned on December 6, 1784);
Senate, Eastern Shore, Term of 1781-1786: 1784
(elected on December 4, 1784, to fill vacancy;
qualified on December 6, 1784), 1785, Term of
1786-1791: 1786-1787, 1787-1788, 1788, 1789,
1790. OTHER STATE OFFICE: Constitution Ratifi-
cation Convention, Somerset County, 1788. LOCAL
OFFICES: justice, Somerset County, commissioned
1785 and 1786; justice, Orphans' Court, Somerset
County, commissioned 1785 and 1786, Cecil
County, commissioned 1799. OUT OF STATE SER-
VICE: representative, U. S. Congress, 1789-1791;
appointed supervisor of distilled liquors for the
district of Maryland by President Washington,
1791. WEALTH DURING LIFETIME. PERSONAL
PROPERTY 15 slaves, 1783; assessed value
£615.0.0, including 25 slaves, 1793-1795. LAND
AT FIRST ELECTION: at least 799 acres in Somerset
County, 1783. SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN LAND
BETWEEN FIRST ELECTION AND DEATH: sold all
of his land in Somerset County, at least 842 acres,
by ca. 1796; purchased 2,831 acres in Cecil
County, of which 1,050 acres were mortgaged,
plus ca. 55 acres of lots in Havre de Grace, Cecil
County, 1795-1800; sold 1,088 acres and mort-
gaged an additional 625 acres in Cecil County,
and sold his lots in Harve de Grace, Cecil County,
1800-1815. WEALTH AT DEATH. DIED: on January
2, 1815, in Cecil County; buried in St. Mark's
(Episcopal) churchyard, Aiken, Cecil County. PER-
SONAL PROPERTY: TEV, $8,806.35 (including
more than 20 slaves); FB, $479.78. LAND possibly
1,743 acres in Cecil County, of which 625 acres
were mortgaged. ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: Gale's
estate was not settled until 1840. Some real and
personal property was sold to settle debts, and
some debts were assumed by his son Levin prior
to 1835. A large tract of land that remained as
part of the estate was sold in 1838 to settle the
combined estates of Gale and his son Levin.
GALE, JOHN (?-ca. 1744). BORN: by 1712 in
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Somerset County; probably third son. NATIVE:
second generation. RESIDED: in Somerset County
(probably in that section that later became part of
Wicomico County). FAMILY BACKGROUND. FA-
THER. George Gale (1671-1712). MOTHER: Betty
(1674-1736). BROTHERS: Levin Gale (ca. 1704-
1744); George Gale (?-ca. 1772); and Matthias (?-
1748). NEPHEW: Levin Gale (ca. 1730-1791).
OTHER KINSHIP: his great-nephew was George
Gale (1756-1815). ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: his
father's first wife was probably Mildred (?-1701),
widow of Lawrence Washington (1650-1698), and
the daughter of Col. Augustine Warner, of
Gloucester County, Virginia. She was the grand-
mother of George Washington (1731/32-1799).
MARRIED his first cousin Milcah (Mileah, Miliah),
daughter of Henry Hill, a mariner of Anne Arun-
del and Dorchester counties, and wife Mary Den-
wood; stepdaughter of Sarah; granddaughter of
both Richard Hill (ca. 1640-1700) and Levin
Den wood; niece of Joseph Hill (ca. 1670-1724).
Milcah subsequently married Rev. Thomas Airey,
rector of Christ Church, Cambridge, Dorchester
County. Her brothers were Joseph; Rjchard, who
married Deborah; and Levin, who married
Elizabeth. Her sisters were Mary Gillespie, who
married Ezekiel Gilliss; Priscilla, who married
Caleb Dorsey. CHILDREN. SONS: George (ca. 1731-
1765), who married on January 30, 1750, his step-
sister Elizabeth (?-1799), daughter of Rev.
Thomas Airey and wife Elizabeth Pitt; Henry (ca.
1740-?); and Levin (ca. 1743-?). DAUGHTERS:
Mary (ca. 1734-by 1790), who married Samuel
Wilson (1735-1790); Betty (ca. 1737-?). PRIVATE
CAREER. EDUCATION, literate. RELIGIOUS AFFILIA-
TION: Protestant. His father was an Anglican; his
mother and wife were Quakers. He specified in his
will that his sons were to be raised as Anglicans.
SOCIAL STATUS AND ACTIVITIES: Gent., 1733. OC-
CUPATIONAL PROFILE: merchant; probably a
planter. PUBLIC CAREER. LEGISLATIVE SERVICE:
Lower House, Somerset County, 1739-1741 (Bills
of Credit 3). LOCAL OFFICE: justice, Somerset
County, commissioned 1738. MILITARY SERVICE:
captain, by 1741. WEALTH DURING LIFETIME.
PERSONAL PROPERTY: his wife's dower was
£48.0.0. LAND AT FIRST ELECTION: ca. 1,872
acres in Somerset, Queen Anne's, Calvert, and
Baltimore counties (ca. 988 acres inherited; ca. 884
acres purchased at public auction). SIGNIFICANT
CHANGES IN LAND BETWEEN FIRST ELECTION
AND DEATH: sold 287 acres in Queen Anne's
County in 1740; purchased and patented ca. 566
acres in Somerset County, 1741-1742. WEALTH AT
DEATH. DIED: in Somerset County; administration
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