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==Galligo family==
As per [https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/onhistory/2007-v99-n1-onhistory04967/1065795ar.pdf ''From Immigrant to Establishment''] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Canada_College Wikipedia], Peter was the first Black theology student at Upper Canada College , enrolling in 18371831, and mentored by Bishop [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Strachan John Strachan] (1778-1867), who was the first Anglican Bishop of Toronto. Strachan hired him in 1840 to compile the first census of Toronto's Black population.
His father was a "successful York St. merchant" who founded the Gallego Flour Mills which exported product to South America, and was based in Richmond before emigrating to Canada. Peter and his friend Edward de St. Remy founded an abolitionist newspaper for the British-American Anti-Slavery Society, as per John Lorinc's 2018 article "[https://www.thestar.com/life/first-census-of-toronto-s-black-population-in-1840-counted-525-people/article_bc4efc23-25b6-5b0a-8280-e37ffea0908b.html First Census...]. He took several trips to Jamaica in the early 1840's encouraging voluntary emigrationthere from the U.S.
[https://books.google.com/books?id=NFB1JdDSDm8C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false ''The Underground Railroad: Next Stop, Toronto!] (pp. 67-68) mentioned that Peter's next door neighbor in Toronto, was William Hickman, Sr., a barber who moved with his family in 1833 from Virginia, freed from slavery as he had fought in "both the American Revolution and the War of 1812". He moved there with his family because freed slaves were unable to live in Virginia at the time. In Toronto, he had a "practical approach to helping fugitive slaves; they built extra housing in the backyards of their downtown properties so that newcomers would have somewhere to live when they first came to Toronto." From an excerpt from the front page of the [https://archive.org/details/6d1a6686-d899-49e1-8ee5-c3b754d992d0/mode/2up?q=%22Peter+Gallego%22 1841-4-8] issue of the first volume, published in New York, of the ''National Anti-Slavery Standard'': "Dr. Thomas Rolph, in the course of his remarks at the World's Convention, when speaking of Peter, described him as "about being ordained a clergyman... a gentleman whose capacity, vast attainments, and singular modesty command the regard of all who know him." Here, in addition to the editor of the Standard, who describes him as appearing to be "a gentleman of observation and intelligence..." Also see a letter from Nov. 1st, 1841 between Gallego (then in Toronto) and Rolge published in ''The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Reporter'', entitled [https://archive.org/details/the-british-and-foreign-anti-slavery-reporter-volumenes-1-3/page/142/mode/2up?q=%22Peter+Gallego%22 American Prejudice Against Colour In Canada]. From +1870-1881+, he was employed as a teacher. 1870 @ 1418 Poplar, Richmond, VA; 1874 @ 2015 NW 11th, D.C.; 1874-1881 @ D.C.
* Peter Gallego @ 214 S.W. 7th St. '''+1878-1880+''' (b. 1814 Richmond, [[Virginia|VA]] - d. 1883 Kingston, [[Jamaica]])