Can anyone help or assist me as to who-what or where to look. Read the following letter. November 1, 1934 Dear John Carter and William G: I am writing from memory the outstanding facts of our family history. You could call it a genealogy I suppose. First generation, John Cale, Indian, lived near Edenton, N.C. His name appears in the old records of Albemarle settlement. He leased to the officers in charge of Albemarle Settlement his interest in the land for a period of 99 years for the sum of $100. This document is to be found among the papers of an old minister who lived in Edenton. The present register of deeds is a relative of this man, and took me to the home of the minister to see the record. Since I am not especially good at remembering names, I shall not attempt to write the name of this minister, who died just a few years before my father, and is well known in Edenton. John Cale married an English lady of high rank. I am not able to tell you more about the children of this Indian and his English wife than the fact that one of these was a son whom they named Charney. This word in Indian dialect meant beautiful. He died when my father was about eight years old, or not more than 70 years ago. He was 80 when he died. That would make his birth the year 1775. His father John must have been about 40 to 50 when he was exiled and later killed the English settlers who at this time had just become independent colonies. Charney Cale had a large family but I remember the names of only three boys. These were Gilbert, Graham and Duncan L. Duncan L was my grandfather and his children were William H., Emerline, John, Millie, Jane, Dancy and Franklin. Duncan L. was born in 1817, and my father was born in 1852. Graham Cale went to Texas in early life, and Gilbert went to Alabama to engage in the drug business. He had one son the age of my father named Robert M. whose daughter Fannie visited our home the year I married your mother. John Cale, my uncle died in Plymouth, N.C. in the Confederate Army, or a Yankee prisoner captured in an engagement near that town. Uncle William H. called "Billie" returned from the war a Yankee or Union soldier, married Miss Mary Butler of Windsor, who had three children, Duncan, Elizabeth, and Emma. These three died without marrying, and Uncle Billie lived only a few years after the birth of the youngest. My grandfather married Harriet Hoggard, daughter of Patrick Hoggard, a full blooded Irishmen. My father married Martha C. Castellow, a beautiful women of French, Irish and English blood. The Castellows live in Bertie County, and spelled the Castellaw, when they first bought lands in that county. My mother's father was Larry Castellow, who died in 1784. He had four sons and three daughters. My mother was the oldest, James the next and Aunt Jane, the wife of my Father's brother Franklin, called Frank, the next Cullen L. Lemuel-a handsome youth when he died in 1881, Henry B. and Barbara A., now living in Windsor. She is Mrs. Daniel B. Jones. She is just five years older than I am, and was my big sister when I started to school 54 years ago. William H. Cale Hendersonville, North Carolina.