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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].
In [https://archive.org/details/blackabolitionis0000unse/page/92/mode/2up?q=%22Peter+Gallego%22 '''The Black Abolitionist Papers'''], a footnote on p. 87 indicates that Dr. Rolph, a prominent British physician, acted as an adviser to Gallego who, with two other Canadian blacks, "drafted a memorial to Queen Victoria seeking protection (particularly jury trials) for Canadian blacks charged with crimes committed while in American slavery. They presented the petition to the secretary of Lord Durham, the governor-general of the Canadas in 1838, but it was misplaced and never reached the Queen. In 1839 Rolph visited England and inquired about its fate. Despite persistent appeals to the Colonial Office, he received no satisfactory response, even though he brought the matter before the World's Anti-Slavery Convention in London during June 1840", as per pp. 38-39, 133-43 of Murray's "Canada and Anglo-American Anti-Slavery Movement".
In 1840, Bishop Strachan hired Peter to compile the first census of Toronto's Black population. In 1841, he took the first of several trips to Jamaica, sponsored by a black convention at Ancaster, Canada West, to "investigate and report on the advantages of emigration to the island". He went throughout Canada West holding meetings attempting to encourage black immigration. Charles B. Ray also sponsored him to speak at black anticolonization meetings in New York City, and elsewhere in the state. Returning to Canada in 1844, he published a promotional pamphlet which generated limited interest, but he remained a "strong supporter of Jamaican immigration as late as the mid-1850s". In 1856, he had moved away from this activism and settled in Chatham, Ontario. Perhaps this is where he was introduced to the PB.
* Peter Gallego @ 214 S.W. 7th St. '''+1878-1880+''' (b. 1814 Richmond, [[Virginia|VA]] - d. 1883 Kingston, [[Jamaica]]). 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.
* Mary Waddai Waddal Gallego (m. 1841 St. James Anglican, Toronto, ON). Wedding officiated by H.J. Grasett.
* Catherine Sharten Gallego (b. 1831 Ireland; m. 1869 Manhattan, NYC, NY)
