George Gale
BIRTH
Jun 3, 1756
Somerset County, Maryland
DEATH
January 2, 1815
Cecil County, Maryland
FAMILY
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Gale, George
(1756-1815)
George Gale was a Maryland Continental Army veteran, legislator, and member of the state convention that ratified the United States Constitution. He represented Maryland in the First Congress and later served as federal supervisor of distilled liquors for the state.
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Places | Image | Address | GPS | Site |
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Brookland Marker | 175 St Marks Church Rd, Perryville, MD 21903 | MARKER |
DIED:
Cecil County, Maryland
Jan 2, 1815
George Gale was born on Jun 3, 1756 in Somerset County, Maryland. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies George Gale with work or public activity as a soldier, statesman. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. George Gale died on Jan 2, 1815 in Cecil County, Maryland. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.