1752 Gale

Captain: Thomas Casson
From: Rotterdam 5 Jun 1752
Arrival: 26 Aug or 6 Sep 1752, disembarked 26 Sep

Left with 249 passengers and arrived with 220 persons. 29 (11.6 %) persons died on the voyage. The Gale had a long and stormy passage with violent westerly winds. Some seamen died on the trip. The disembarkment was delayed due in part to illness on the ship. The delay may have also been due to barracks to house them not yet finished. 

The original ship list was organized by the size of the family. The single men over 15 years old were listed first, followed by the men with a wife but no children, then by those with a wife and one child, etc. The following list has been restructured by locality from the southwest and to the northeast. The single men who were listed separately but were apparently part of a family, are included in this list with their parents. It appears that those from northern and eastern German provinces were fewer and usually single young men, probably more the adventurers than the more typical family emigration that came from southern German provinces.

It is not possible to identify all the people on the ship because often a family would take an older parent or step children who are not easy to identify in the available sources, however all those in each household were listed under "Freight". The first number represents the number of adult males, the second number adult females, the third number represents the half-freights (children between 4-14), the fourth number represents children under four who were free, the fifth number represents the number of freights that were owed for passage costs, and the fifth number represents the total number of people in the household. 

The place of origin was generally the state, province, or city-state, however in some cases a town was listed (or the town might have been a small duchy or independent town in 1753). Most of the people on this ship appear to have been from the Palatine region (Bayern-Pfalz) of Germany. The actual towns of origin of these people will be verified in the future and updated on this site as time permits.