TER GALE FAMILY RECORDS IN ENGLAND AND THE UNITED STATES; TO WHICH ARE ADDED, THE TOTTINGHAM FAMILY OF NEW EN- GLAND, AND SOME ACCOUNT OF THE BOGARDUS, WALDRON AND YOUNG FAMILIES OF NEW YORK. BY GEORGE GALE, LL. D., GALESVILLE, WISCONSIN. LEITH & GALE, PRINTERS. PREFACE. The writer of the following pages has devoted a por tion of his time for the last four years in collecting and preparing for publication the records of the Gale Families in the United States and England. In accomplishing this work, he sent circulars and letters to all the persons that he could hear of by this name, both in England and the United States, soliciting communications and family records. He also made one visit to Boston where he spent nearly three weeks in copying the military records of Massachusetts. The writer, however, has to regret that the enterprise has not met with that favor which he thinks its importance demanded, as nearly one half of those who have received his circular, have failed to respond to its reasonable requests. In some instances, town and county officers have neglected to answer letters,even containing money, and stamps for return postage, while others have promptly, not only answered letters, but several have delined receiving any compensation for the information furnished. While many of the Gales have neglected to answer letters and circulars, others have taken hold of the enterprise with zeal and furnished all the information within their reach. Of the Gale Families in England, we have obtained the most of our information from "Burke's Dictionary of the Lineage of the Landed Gentry of England." The writer has, First, given the descendents of Richard Gale of Watertown, Massachusetts, who settled there about 1640; Second, the genealogy of his mother's family; Tottingham; Third, that of his wife, Young; and Fourth, another family of Gales whom the writer believes were nephews to Richard Gale. Of these families the writer has given all the information he has been able to collect, without personally visiting the different towns of their residences, which he had not the time to do. In many instances this information is very meagre, but he can only answer that it is all obtained. The Author, however, hopes that this publication will so far attract the attention of the Gales, as to arouse some enterprising one, at some future time, to revise the work and make it more complete. GALESVILLE, Wis., March, 1866. THE AUTHOR. ABBREVIATIONS. To all towns in Massachusetts the name of the State has not been added; but otherwise in other States; b. born-m. married-unm. unmarried-d. deceased-dau. daughters. p. without issue. For abbreviations in Heraldry, see Webster's Dictionary |