George Gale (b. ? - d. ?)
MSA SC 5496-24661
Slave Owner, Anne Arundel County, Maryland

Biography:

According to the Slave Schedule of the 1850 Census, George Gale is listed as the owner of 67 slaves on his property in the first district of Anne Arundel County. In the "fugitive" column, which was designed by census takers to account for slaves that absconded from their owner, it is recorded that three males ran from Gale in 1846. Indeed an ad was recovered from the pages of the Maryland Republican on 10 October 1846. The $600 reward was offered by George Gale for the return of his three slaves, James Williams, Jacob Boston, and Lewis Coward in the Republican. It would require more research to determine the ultimate fate of Williams, Boston, and Coward, but it is clear the three were fugitives for at least four years.

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