"2. John2 Gale (Abel1), born about 1670; a soldier in Capt. Peter Schuyler's Company, New York Militia, in 1692, probably to serve against the French; later a miller at Jamaica, where he obtained leave on 1 April 1704 to build a 'great mill.' He was rated at 16s. 8d. on 4 Feb. 1708/9. He was a vestryman of the church at Jamaica in 1717. On 11 Feb. 1720/1, he sold out his dwelling house, lands and grist mills at Jamaica to William Bennett of Hempstead for £1500, and in 1721 he and his family removed with several other families from Jamaica to Goshen, Orange Co., N.Y., where they became proprietors of a tract known as the Wawayanda Patent. He was appointed elisor of Goshen in 1726. He held lands in Ulster County, as well as in Orange County, N. Y., and died at Goshen between 3 May 1746 (the date of his will) and 24 Oct. 1750 (the date of probate) (N.Y. Hist. Soc., Abstracts, vol. 4, pp. 299-300, where the date of probate is erroneously given as 24 Oct. 1753 instead of 1750)."
