Gale, John P., 1789-1840

John P. Gale was the son of Gen. John Gale and Amelia Williams Gale, and they lived at Cedar Grove in Somerset County. He married Caroline A.H. Jones on September 9, 1819. In the 1820 census, he enslaved fifty-two people in his household.

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[Letter from Elizabeth Upshur Teackle to her husband, Littleton Dennis Teackle, January 15, 1810]

Letter from Elizabeth Upshur Teackle to her husband Littleton Dennis Teackle. She talks of sending hair in a locket and her love for him. She says she will write to his mother, Elizabeth Dennis Teackle, and tells him to talk highly of his wife in the American nobility circles.