The Gamble Family in the USN and USMC

From the "Biographical Register of Saint Andrew's Society of the State of New York"  by William Munro MacBean.

Colonel John Marshall Gamble

**  Colonel Gamble  was one of  four sons of  Major William Gamble of the United States Marine Corps, all of whom served in the U.S. Navy.

**  Captain Thomas Gamble of the U.S. Sloop of War Erie, the eldest, died at Pisa, Italy, October  10, 1818.  He was named after his uncle who was Quartermaster-General of British forces in North America in 1769,  and died as a Major in  London in 1821 at the age of 86, leaving 14,500 pounds toward paying off the British national debt, probably because he never forgave his brother and nephews for their disloyalty.

**  Lieutenant Francis R. Gamble, commander of the U.S. Storeship Decoy, died off Cape Hatteras, September 29, 1824.

**  Lieutenant Peter Gamble, the youngest of the four brothers was killed at the Battle of Lake Champlain, on Commodore Macdonough's ship.

--Brock-Perry