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GALES FAMILY PAPERS, #2652, 1815-1939

Papers of and about Joseph Gales, his wife Winifred (Marshall) Gales, and their descendants, including manuscript reminiscences of their experiences as printers, publishers, and booksellers in England, as refugees in Germany, and as immigrants in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Raleigh, North Carolina. The manuscript volume "Recollections" relates the Gales' purchase of slaves for household, farm, printing, and later, paper making.