Member EdwardDale

Documented in a list of books owned by Dale, drawn up by Thomas and Edward Carter on 16 February 1695 and written on a blank leaf in a copy of Holyday's Juvenal (1673) in the collections of the Folger Shakespeare Library. Dale's copy of Shakespeare's Second Folio may be the earliest recorded copy of Shakespeare in America.

Major Edward Dale (1620-1695), an early settler of Lancaster County, Virginia. A Royalist, he emigrated to Virginia during the English Civil War, and held various local offices until the time of his death. He married Diana Skipwith; their daughter Katherine was the wife of Thomas Carter.