Gales Papers, PC.146
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Gales Papers
- Call Number
- PC.146
- Creator
- Gales family
- Date
- 1794-1864
- Extent
- 0.400 cubic feet
- Repository
- State Archives of North Carolina
Collection Overview
Papers of Joseph Gales, Sr. (1761-1841), state printer, editor (1799-1833) of the Raleigh Register, and mayor of Raleigh (1819- 1833, 1840-1841), and of his wife Winifred, their sons, and gradson. Photocopied reminiscences of Winifred Gales (original in Southern Historical Collection, UNC) describe her family and her husband's family in England; his work as printer, bookseller, and editor of the Sheffield Register; parliamentary reform movement and his involvement with reform societies; danger of arrest and persecution (1794); passage to Germany, life with other emigrants in Hamburg, and voyage to America; and their lives in Philadelphia and Raleigh. Gale's cashbook and diary (1794-1795) record his preparations in Germany and voyage to America. Photocopies of letters (1820-1837) from Gales, his wife, and two sons to historian Jared Sparks concern family, persecution of Unitarians, publications by Sparks and Joseph Gales, Jr., in Washington, D.C. novelist Caroline Lee Whiting Hentz and husband at Chapel Hill, and North Carolina Revolutionary records (including the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence). Also original speech to the Raleigh City Guards (1834) and correspondence (1863-1864) between Maj. Seaton Gales, brigade staff officer in Virginia, and his wife concerning Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, death of Stonewall Jackson, Generals W. R. Cox and S. D. Ramseur, shortages, slaves, the peace movement, and the convention of North Carolina troops to condemn it.