eral assembly of Alabama territory in 1817, of the state legislature in 1819-'20 and 1834-'8, and of that of Mississippi in 1886. In 1831 he was one of a commission to locate a public road from Tusca- loosa through Pensacola to Blakely and Port Clai- borne, and, on the completion of his duty, was made brigadier-general by the Alabama legislature and given a life-pension. In 1831 he was ap- pointed by the secretary of war, together with Col. George S. Gaines, to remove the Choctaw Indians to their new home on the Arkansas and lied rivers. See "Life and Times of Gen. Sam. Dale," from notes of his own conversations, bv John F. H. Claiborne (New York. 1860).
DALE, Sir Thomas, colonial governor of Vir-
ginia ; d. near Bantam, East Indies, early in 1030.
He had been a soldier of distinction in the Low
Countries, and had been knighted by King James
in June, 1606. The London company, before the
retu-ement of Lord Delaware, had sent him to Vir-
ginia with supplies, and on his arrival in the Chesa-
peake he assumed the government. He found the
colony, then consisting of about 200 men, in great
despondency over the departure of Delaware, and
gave them new cause for sorrow by his administra-
tion of the government, which he carried on under
a code (chiefly compiled from the rules of war of
the United Provinces) sent to Virginia, without
the company's authority, by its treasurer, Thomas
Smythe. Notwithstanding this introduction of
martial law, Dale has received praise for his vigor
and industry. Seeing the feeble state of the colony,
lie wrote at once to England for aid ; and in Au-
gust, 1611, a new fleet reached Jamestown under Sir
Thomas (urates, who relieved Dale in the govei'n-
ment. The latter continued, however, to be active
in colonial aft'airs, founding the new settlement of
Henrico, and conquering the Appomattox Indians.
On Gates's return to England in March, 1014, the
government was again left with Dale, and he ad-
ministered it till 1616. when he sailed for home in
the same vessel with Pocohontas and Jolni Rolfe,
who had been married during his term of otflce.
Dale was in Holland in February, 1617, and in
January, 1619, made commander of the East In-
dian fleet, participating in an engagement with the
Dutch near Bantam. The climate at his post
proved fatal to him. Dale deserves special praise
for the important changes that he introduced in
the colonial land-laws, under which, as established
by him, the cultivator was given a chance of be-
coming proprietor of the soil, which was an impos-
sibility under the old system.
DALE, William Johnson, physician, b. in
Gloucester, Mass., 5 Sept., 1815. His grandfather,
William Johnson, fought at Bunker Hill ; his pa-
ternal grandfather, Ebenezer, at Lexington ; and
his father, Ebenezer, was a surgeon in the war of
1813. He was graduated at Harvard in 1837, at its
medical school in 1840, and began pi'actice in Bos-
ton. In June, 1861, he was commissioned surgeon-
general of Massachusetts, holding the rank of colo-
nel, and in December of that year was appointed
acting assistant surgeon of the U. S. army, which
place he retained till the close of the war. He was
on duty in Boston, Mass., during the civil war, and
had general supervision of all matters connected
with the medical staff and the care and treatment
of the sick and wounded that were sent home. In
October, 1863, he was raised to the rank of briga-
dier-general, in connection with his appointment
as surgeon-general of Massachusetts. In recog-
nition of his services, the U. S. authorities gave his
name to a general hospital established at Worces-
ter, Mass., opened in September, 1865. He is a
member of the Massachusetts medical society, and
was its anniversary chairman.
DALHOUSIE, George Ramsay, Earl of, Scottish general, b. in 1770; d. at Dalhousie castle, near Edinburgh, Scotland, 21 March, 1838. He entered the British army as a cornet in the guards, raised a company, and was made captain. He was wounded at Martinique, and served in Ireland, during the rebellion of 1798, in the expedition to the Helder, at Belleisle and Minorca, and under Sir Ralph Abercromby in Egypt, attaining the rank of major-
general in 1805. He subsequently fought at the
Scheldt and at Flushing, and through the Peninsu-
lar war, distinguishing himself at the battles of
Vittoria and the Pyrenees. In 1815 he was raised
to the peerage as Baron Ramsay. In 1816 he was
sent to Nova Scotia as commander-in-chief of the
forces, and after the death of the Duke of Rich-
mond, in 1819, was appointed governor-general of
British North America. During his administra-
tion efforts to efl'eet a union of the provinces were
continued, provoking the intense hostility of the
French population, and ceaseless disputes took
place between the executive and the assembly re-
specting the civil list and the crown lands. He
left Canada in September, 1838, and served in India
as commander-in-chief, but returned to Scotland
with broken health in 1833.
DALL, Charles Henry Appleton (dal), clergy-
man, b. in Baltimore, Md., 13 Feb., 1816; d. in
Calcutta, British India, 18 July, 1886. He was
educated in the Boston public and Latin schools,
and was graduated at Harvard in 1837, and at
Harvard divinity-school in 1840. In November,
1841, he was ordained an evangelist of the Unita-
rian church in St. Louis, after which he was settled
in Baltimore, Md., Portsmouth, N. H., Needham,
Mass., and Toronto, Canada. Failing health, from
excessive pastoral duties, with a preference for
missionary work, induced him to take up that oc-
cupation as his life labor. He became the first for-
eign missionary of the Unitarian church in America,
and in February, 1855, sailed for Calcutta. There
he instituted the first girls' school for natives, the
first school for homeless and friendless children, and
the first children's temperance society. Mr. Dall was
elected a member of the American oriental society
and the Asiatic society of Bengal, and a foreign
associate of the Hungarian Unitarian consistory.
He was the author of many tracts, educational and
moral, for circulation in British India, a small work
on the Suez canal, many hymns and devotional
poems, and notes'of travel contributed to periodicals
in the United States and India. The number of pam-
phlets written by Mr. Dall in India exceeded one
hundred, and many of them were several times re-
jirinted in response to a demand from the natives
for whose instruction they were intended.— His
wife, Caroline Healey, daughter of Mark Healey,
b, in Boston, Mass., 22 June, 1822, was educated
by private tutors and governesses, after which she
became a teacher, and in 1840 was made vice-
principal of the celebrated " Miss English's school
for young ladies," in Georgetown. D. C. In September, 1844, she married Mr. Dall, and, although occupied thenceforth with duties incidental to the life of a clergyman's wife, she continued her studies and literary activity. Her early work was especially devoted to reform topics, principally the opening of new fields of labor to women. Mrs. Dall's later labors have been chiefly literary and critical. In 1877 she received the degree of LL. D. from Alfred university. She has published many books, among which are " Essays and Sketches " (Boston, 1849); "Historical Pictures Retouched,
