Caesar was an African American man living in Pasquotank County, North Carolina who was enslaved by the Gale family. Caesar was enslaved by the Gales by 1738, when Edmund Gale named "new Caesar" in his will, bequeathing Caesar's labor to Gale's wife Mary. In 1740, while still enslaved by Mary Gale, Caesar visited Mary Becket's home in the middle of the night alongside another enslaved man named Ned. If Caesar was punished for leaving the Gale plantation, it was not recorded. Caesar appeared in records again in 1741, when Mary Gale sent him to Macrora Scarborough's plantation, also in Pasquotank, to receive medical care for a sore leg. Caesar received medical care and labored at the Scarborough plantation for ten months before returning to the Gale property. Any further records regarding Caesar have not been located. He was not mentioned by name in Mary Gale's will, nor those of her two sons.