Barnabas Yale was an American abolitionist attorney, vice-president and cofounder of the Central New-York Anti-Slavery Society, part of the American Anti-Slavery Society. He petitioned Congress in 1838 for the abolition of slavery, about 30 years before the American Civil War, and was made Justice of the Peace of Martinsburg, New York.
Portrait of Barnabas Yale's nephew, Walter D. Yale, public notary and professor of the Bible for 30 years
A copy of The Liberator, an abolitionist newspaper in which Barnabas Yale is featured during the Utica convention
The World Anti-Slavery Convention of 1840 at Exeter Hall in London. William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan, founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society were participants
Lorenzo Da Ponte' Opera House, on Leonard Street, New York, 1833
Captain Theophilus Yale was a British military officer, magistrate, and one of the early settlers of Wallingford, Connecticut. His grandnephew, Dr. Lyman Hall, became one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, and a signatory of the Declaration of Independence. Yale was also a deputy of the Connecticut House of Representatives and Justice of the Peace for Wallingford.
Capt. Theophilus Yale's great-grandnephew, Sea captain Theophilus Yale, nephew of Capt. Elihu Yale
Center Congregational Church, Meriden, Connecticut, Theophilus Yale's brother was one of its founders
Valparaiso Bay, Chile, where Sea captain Theophilus Yale died, in the early 19th century
The General Armstrong, Joseph Yale's brother-in-law, Capt. Winship, was captured aboard during the War of 1812
