found: Alabama. General Assembly. Sale of public lands, 1830:p. 2 (John Gayle, speaker of the House of Representatives)
found: Owen, T.M. Hist. of Alabama and dict. of Ala. bio., 1929:v. 3, p. 647 (Gayle, John; lawyer; jurist; legislator; congressman; sixth governor of Alabama; b. 9/11/1792 in Sumter District, S.C.; d. 7/21/1859 at Mobile, Ala.)
found: Biog. dir. of the U.S. Congress, 1989(Gayle, John; representative from Ala.; lawyer at Mobile, Ala.; speaker of the Ala. House, 1829; gov. of Ala., 1831-1835; b. 9/11/1792; d. 7/21/1859)
found: Biog. dir. of the governors of the U.S., 1978:p. 9 (Gayle, John, 1831-1835, b. 9/11/1792; d. 7/28/1859)
found: Finding aid for Gayle and Crawford family papers, via UNC University Libraries WWW site, Jan. 20, 2021(The collection includes travel diaries, 1839-1854, and about 20 family letters, 1826-1895, of Sarah Ann Gayle Crawford (1824-1895), daughter of John Gayle. Sarah Crawford's diaries describe traveling from Alabama to New York and attending school there, 1839-1840; visiting in South Carolina; attending President Zachary Taylor's inaugural ball; traveling in Vermont and Canada, 1849; and travels in the South, New York, England, France, and Spain, and returning to Mobile, Ala., 1853-1854. Also included is William Crawford's diary, 1852, kept while he was traveling in Switzerland and Italy) - https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/02777/
