Works in the index that concern this person directly, or were written by them. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it; background reading with wider context sits further down.
Biographical history of North Carolina from colonial times to the present
Ashe, Samuel A. · 1905 · C.L. Van Noppen
Samuel A. Ashe's eight volume set of North Carolina biographies, published by C.L. Van Noppen from 1905 and running from the colonial period forward. The sketches take in governors, judges and public men, among them William Tryon, Frederick Nash, Richard Henderson and Matt W. Ransom. Genealogists use the set as a name source for families across the state, Orange County included.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the NC Cardinal record: Gale, Christopher.
Chief Justice Gale, of North Carolina
Haywood, Marshall De Lancey, 1871-1933 · 1893 · Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies
Marshall De Lancey Haywood's sketch of Christopher Gale, chief justice of North Carolina in the proprietary period, who died in 1735. It was detached from the February 1893 North Carolina University Magazine and printed at Chapel Hill by the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Gale, Christopher.
