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About John Gale, of the Cashew
JOHN GALE, of the Cashew in the parish of St. Elizabeth, Jamaica, b. Dec 1637, ‘went when a youth to the Island of Jamaica at the first conquest by Penn and Venables A.D. 1655’, patented 533 acres at Wel Savanna in the parish of St. Elizabeth, Jamaica on 28 Apr 1673, Major in the Militia, m. MARY JACKSON, who was b. 24 Dec 1647. Matthew Gregory Lewis, the well-known author of The Monk, stayed at the Cashew on 4 Mar 1816 prior to climbing the Bogr. He d. 9 Oct 1689, aged 52, and she d. 10 Apr 1711, aged 64, and they were both buried in the garden at the Cashew.
Biography
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Gale-3392
John was born in December of 1637 in Yorkshire. [1]. He passed away in 1689. John was the third son of Robert Gale (abt.1600-abt.1669) of Acomb Grange and Elizabeth (Langdale) Gale (abt.1601-).
Family
Marriage
John Gale married Mary Jackson (1637-1711) [2]
Children
John and Mary had 13 children.
- Colonel Jonathan Gale of Fullerswood in the parish of St. Elizabeth, Jamaica, Colonel and Custos of the parish of St. Elizabeth, Member of the Assembly for St. Elizabeth 1708-09 and 1711, Member of the Assembly for Westmoreland 1721-22 and 1725-26, b. 10 Mar 1675/76, m. 18 May 1699 at Vere, Eleanor. She was buried at St. Elizabeth on 16 Oct 1725 and he d. 21 Apr 1727 and was buried at St. Elizabeth on 28 Apr 1727
- Henry Gale, of the Cashew, b. 30 Oct 1666, d.s.p. 15 Jun 1697, aged 30
- John Gale b. 11 Nov 1668, d. unmarried 8 Apr 1690 buried in the Cashew garden
- Isaac Gale, of the Cashew and Luana in the parish of St. Elizabeth, b. 16 Jan 1671/72 at the Cashew, m. 1stly 7 Jun 1695 at the Cashew, Mary, dau of Richard Slinger of Philpot Lane, London and his wife Elizabeth. She d. 11 Jul 1698 and was buried in the garden at the Cashew having had issue:
- George, b. 19 Jul 1680, d. 7 Nov 1689, aged 9, and was buried in the garden at the Cashew
- Jacob Gale, b. 26 Jan 1681/82, d. 27 Nov 1702, aged 20
- Joseph Gale, b. 23 Oct 1688, d.s.p. 1717 in London
- Mary Gale, b. and d. Nov 1670
- Mary Gale, b. 8 Jan 1673/74, m. 1699 in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, Jonathan Dickinson and d. 1719 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Anna Gale, b. 18 Mar 1678/79, d. 13 Jul 1690, aged 11 and was buried in the Cashew garden
- Sarah Gale, b. 11 Jun 1684, m. John Foster and d. 3 Feb 1702/03, aged 18
- Ruth (Gale) Vassal (1685-1734), b. 30 Sep 1685, m. Major Leonard Vassall (in some sources spelt Vassal, but Vassall is correct) of the parish of St. Elizabeth, son of John Vassall and his wife Anna née Lewis. She d. 14 Mar 1733/34 at Boston, Massachusetts [3] [4] [5]
Career and Social
He first arrived in Jamaica in 1655 aged 18 yrs, the year the English took control of the Island, but he must have travelled back and forth since on 5 February 1660 a pass was issued to John Gale in London to join his father, Robert Gale, in Port Royal, Jamaica. [6]
John and his wife settled in an area known as the Cashew in St. Elizabeth's Parish where he established his plantations. Initially he was a horse catcher. John was said to be illiterate. He then became a successful and wealthy planter [7]
John was a Major in the militia and served as a member of the legislative Jamaica Council. His will states he was a Quaker.
On 28 April 1673, John patented 533 acres in Savanna, St. Elizabeth's Parish, Westmoreland along with other lands he owned on the island. This would have been jungle and needed clearing to establish tobacco, sugar and crop plantations. John owned many slaves to do the manual farm work; one partial list refers to them as: Hercules, Grace, Jeffery and an unnamed negro boy and girl.
Death
John died 19 Oct 1689. On 10 September 1689, aged 51 he had written his will, inscribed with his family crest - Gale of Acomb (a Grange in Yorkshire); it was proved on 25 Jan 1690. Mary died on 4 October 1711 and was buried in the garden at the Cashew with her husband and some of their children.
His wife died 10 Apr 1711, aged 64, and they were both buried in the garden at the Cashew house.
Will
Will of John Gale of the Parish of St Elizabeth, Jamaica, 1689:
In the name of God Amen the ninth day of October in the first year of the reign of King William and Queen Mary Anno Dom 1689 I John Gale of the parish of Elizabeth, within the island above Eqà being sick and weak in body but of sound and perfect memory and understanding do make ordance and publick this to be my last will and testament hereby revoking all other wills by me family made my soul I comitt into the mercyfull hands of almighty God who gave me the same and by whom of his once and only grace I hope to be saved and recà into eternal rest through the death of Jesus Christ my Savior, and my body I comitt to the earth from whence it was taken to be decently buried at the descretion of my Executex hereafter named and as tending my Estate which God in mercy hath blessed me I deplore of the same my debts and funerale expences being first pd and discharged in an maner and forme following that is Esay
First all my land at the round hill by estamacon Six hundred acres together with all my land at the Figurares and well avance except two hundred acres to be hand out and disperced of as here after mentioned as also Negroe man named Hercules and Negro woman named Grace I give and bequeth to my son Henry Gale his heirs and asignes for ever
Item I give unto my son John Gale his heirs and asignes for ever the two hundred acres of land before excepted to be run out square on Sr Thomas Lynch and the land in compà of Esq à Favels and Captain Mathews together with the long _____ _____ plantacon therein and all my land in the Great Carhoe the land ____ platacon ____ and all my land belonging thereto joining on Black River and a Negro man named Jeffry
Item I give my Son Isaac Gale his heirs and asignes for ever two hundred and thirty acres of land at Point Pedra joining on George Woodard and John Paris Eighty acres of woodland lying between Francis Dickinson and Sta____ Bay three hundred acres of land at _____ joining with Thomas Lynch and John Wilmott and a negroe boy
Item I give to my Son Jonathan Gale Six hundred Acres of land I bought of Richard Green and all the Savana land joining in the ____ of ______ in _________ and half my land at Point Pedro lying without the pasture and joining of the said pasture ________ his heirs and asignes for ever
Item I give my son Jacob Gale the hundred and twenty acres of land in Fullerwood joining on ____________________ and about Six hundred acres of land at G____ _____________ Isaac Gale and ________ Thomas Lynch __________________.
Item I give to my Son Joseph Gale two hundred thirty acres of land joining on the Cashew River ___________ of this my last will and testament and at her decease my sons Henry and John surviving Exedr whom I am constitute trustees to aid and �..assist my said Executrix desiring you all to see this my said last will and testament performed according to the express letter thereof which I declare my proper ______ and meaning In Witness where of I the said John Gale hereunto sett my hand and seale the day and year first before menconed
John Gale (seal) Signed Sealed and delivered In the presence of __________. J Turner 1689, John Saniton Rand Richardson
By virtue of the will hereunto ___ I administered and ____ to John Turner and John Santon who both swore ____ they say Maj John Gale ____ & Seale and hand _____ publick the will in the ____ as his last will and testament did _____ memory to the best of their ____ and ____ I being a Quaker ____________ 25 day of Jan 1689/90 [8]
Sources
- ↑ Coombs Genealogies Chapter 8, The Gale/Gayle Families of the West Indies [1]
- ↑ Archer Family [2]
- ↑ English Origins of New England Families, Second Series Vol. III The Vassalls of New England pg 577
- ↑ Sheridan R B.1731–1925. Gale Morant Papers, held in the University of Exeter Library
- ↑ Coombs Genealogies Chapter 8 - The Gale/Gayle Families of the West Indies [3]
- ↑ Coombs Genealogies Chapter 8, The Gale/Gayle Families of the West Indies [4]
- ↑ Coombs Genealogies Chapter 8 - The Gale/Gayle Families of the West Indies [5]
- ↑ Jamaica Wills. Volume 6, folio 111
- Gale Morant Papers, University of Exeter. Ancestry.com records.
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John Gale, of the Cashew's Timeline
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1637
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Acomb, York, England
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1673
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1689
Age 52
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St. Elizabeth Parish, Jamaica
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