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Researched biography · Glasgow-1144

James Glasgow

24 May 1731 – c. 1793

The research recommends recording the death as “before 13 July 1793”. See the recommended correction.

Kilwaughter, Larne, County Antrim, Ireland

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About James

James's 1775 will names his wife Mary and six children: Robert, John, Archibald, Wilson, Margaret and Rachel. The 1817 equity complaint repeats the children, identifies Margaret as wife of John Kinard and Rachel as wife of Robert McCrackin, and identifies James as a son of Rachel Wilson. Robert Glasgow-1983's sworn answer independently calls James his father, Mary his mother and Rachel his paternal grandmother. The amended answer makes Archibald Wilson Rachel's brother, so it also identifies James's maternal uncle and Robert's paternal great-uncle.

Birth24 May 1731 · Kilwaughter, Larne, County Antrim, Ireland
Deathc. 1793 · Newberry, South Carolina, United States
LocalityKilwaughter, Larne, County Antrim, Ireland
Last reviewed7 October 2026

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Original evidence and remaining gaps

Original-image proof: Robert's son James — 21 September 2026

Registry of Deeds memorial 159661, pp. 415–416, records Robert Glasgow of Ballykeel, parish of Kilwaughter, granting Hugh Shannon of the same parish a lease dated 20 December 1764. The opening reads Twentyth day of Decr, not a twenty-seventh date. The premises comprise one half of Lower Ballykeel, estimated at thirty-one acres and a half, with half the office houses and associated appurtenances, held under William Agnew of Kilwaughter.

The continuation expressly includes Jas Glasgow son of the sd Robt among the lease lives, alongside Robert Glasgow the grantor and Elinor [surname not legible on the saved screenshot; the FamilySearch machine text reads Jones] otherwise Agnew, daughter of William Agnew. This is direct contemporary father–son wording, rather than an inference from the James Glasgow junior life in memorial 74015 (13 February 1738/9). Read in the same Ballykeel tenure and independently documented household, it corroborates Robert-1143 as father of James-1144. The memorial itself gives James no age, birthplace, mother or later American residence: those identity details still depend on the register and other records.

Hugh Shannon's participation is proved, but this lease does not call him Robert's son-in-law. His marriage to Ann Glasgow belongs to the independent family evidence. Nor does this document identify Robert's own father or supply a bridge to Robert-1502 or James-1081.

The deed and memorial were witnessed by James Shutter and Hugh Kennedy; the continuation records James Shutter's affidavit at Carrickfergus on 29 March 1766. The registration was probably on 18 April 1766: the memorial's own margin note lies outside the saved screenshot of image 542, the neighbouring memorials 159660 and 159663 were registered on 18 April 1766, and the FamilySearch machine text reads "13th". The reviewed screenshots independently expose the lease-day and kinship wording; the memorial number is from the accompanying main-task header reading, since the opening screenshot is cropped at its left edge. Re-check the margin of image 542 at full resolution before quoting the day as certain.

Sources: Registry of Deeds memorial 159661, pp.415–416, FamilySearch images 542, 3Q9M-CSH3-33Q6-L and 543, 3Q9M-CSH3-33QZ-Y. These are images of the registered memorial, not the separately executed lease.

What the research found

These research notes were last revised on 7 October 2026.

Summary of the research

Overall conclusion

Rachel's McCrackin marriage was part of a repeated alliance within this exact family. Her brother Wilson Crossier Glasgow-1982 married Mary McCracken, and their daughter Mariah married William McCracken. The three unions span two successive generations of Robert Glasgow-1143's descendant line. Their force depends on identifying the relationships among Robert, Mary and William McCracken; no inspected record yet supplies those relationships or an Irish origin for the Newberry McCrackens.

The congregation-register chronology additionally records James born 24 May 1731 to Robert and Rachel Glasgow. The conclusions are strongly supported by concordant transcriptions of distinct original records. Original-image review of memorial 159661 (20 December 1764) now independently corroborates his father Robert with the express wording Jas Glasgow son of the sd Robt; see the dated proof section below. That inspection does not verify the images of the other records.

The equity pleadings say James's wife Mary was a daughter of one of Rachel Wilson's five sisters. On the pleaded relationships James and Mary were first cousins. Neither the pleadings nor James's will gives Mary the surname Crozier/Crosier or identifies which sister was her mother. The structured Crosier-512 identity therefore exceeds the documentary evidence.

Private family details withheld.

Later additions

Newest first. Each addition adds to the summary above; it does not replace it.

Oxford Hackman witness reprint, 5 October 2026

James is a named witness in one reprinted report, with no checked profile identified. The postal and shipmaster James subjects remain separate; no kinship or travel history is established.

James Glasgow and Andrew Doyle, styled chairmen, are named among persons examined in the Hackman/Miss Ray affair; Glasgow reportedly removed the pistol and gave it to Halliburton. The Hackman/Miss Ray report names James Glasgow and Andrew Doyle as chairmen among those examined, and says Glasgow took the pistol from Hackman and gave it to constable Halliburton. Chairmen is preserved without expanding the occupation. Two original issues reprint one account; reported testimony is not a separate trial verdict or proof of family identity. James is a named witness in one reprinted report, with no checked profile identified. The postal and shipmaster James subjects remain separate; no kinship or travel history is established. Gloucester Journal, 1779-04-12, p.3, Berrow's Worcester Journal, 1779-04-15, p.1, Jackson’s Oxford Journal, 1779-04-10, p.3

Additional newspaper originals, 5 October 2026

James Glasgow, Hackman affair witness, 1779: Adult lifespan compatible; no London bridge to the South Carolina family. The approximate death is not a precise boundary. James is a named witness in one reprinted report, with no checked profile identified. The postal and shipmaster James subjects remain separate; no kinship or travel history is established. No family or life-date change follows.

Postal and certificate originals, 5 October 2026

James Glasgow, Charlestown postal addressee, 1775: Born 24 May 1731, Kilwaughter, County Antrim, exact; death c.1793, Newberry, South Carolina, estimated. A James Glasgow with a South Carolina location and a 1775 will is chronologically compatible with the Charleston addressee, but the will does not bridge him to the letter list. The estimated c.1793 death is not evidence he lived to December 1789; it also is not a precise death boundary excluding the 1789 entry. The profile's exact birth and Newberry family are distinct from Glasgow-804's; the catalogue calls them similar, which does not establish identity or justify combining their family evidence. Glasgow-804 and Glasgow-1144 have compatible South Carolina context, but no letter-list identity bridge. Their family evidence remains separate. No connection to co-listed Ezekiel, the Philadelphia addressee or the Greenwich Packet master is proved. No relationship change follows.

What the records show

Source findings

Private family details withheld.

Source findings

James Glasgow and Ezekiel Glasgow appear in the list of letters remaining in Charlestown’s General Post Office, dated 21 August 1775. Alphabetical entries printed surname first: Glasgow James, followed by a small 2 marker, and Glasgow Ezekiel. The marker is not read as an age. Letter-list appearance alone proves no kinship, occupation, continuous residence or identity with later James records. The South-Carolina and American General Gazette, 1775-08-25, p.1

Source findings

James Glasgow and Andrew Doyle, styled chairmen, are named among persons examined in the Hackman/Miss Ray affair; Glasgow reportedly removed the pistol and gave it to Halliburton. The Hackman/Miss Ray report names James Glasgow and Andrew Doyle as chairmen among those examined, and says Glasgow took the pistol from Hackman and gave it to constable Halliburton. Chairmen is preserved without expanding the occupation. Two original issues reprint one account; reported testimony is not a separate trial verdict or proof of family identity. James is a named witness in one reprinted report, with no checked profile identified. The postal and shipmaster James subjects remain separate; no kinship or travel history is established. Gloucester Journal, 1779-04-12, p.3, Berrow's Worcester Journal, 1779-04-15, p.1

Source findings — Finley entries in the Kilwaughter source notes, 1793–1795The archived Kilwaughter source notes that report Ann Finley's 1802 will also say that James Glasgow's will was executed in 1793 by James Finley and witnessed by Ann Finley , and that the 1795…

The archived Kilwaughter source notes that report Ann Finley's 1802 will also say that James Glasgow's will was executed in 1793 by James Finley and witnessed by Ann Finley, and that the 1795 will of James Finlay (wife Ann; brothers Robert and Hugh; sisters Margaret, Eleanor and Mary) was executed on the oath of Robert Glasgow and witnessed by John Glasgow and Archibald Glasgow. No will book, page or county is given for the 1795 will.

Seen as: a later researcher's abstract copied into the owner's notes; the originals have not been read. That these Robert, John and Archibald are James's sons is an inference from the names and setting, not a statement in the abstract. With the 1802 will, this strengthens the Finley–Glasgow association but states no kinship. Next record: the Newberry County will books for 1793 and 1795.

Recorded in archive/dump/TheGlasgows.md (owner's checklist export of 10 March 2025); carried into this file on 7 October 2026.

Source findingsFindmypast sweep — 7 October 2026New context, not a passenger record: a Larne ship for Charleston in 1773 had a Shutter as master.
  • New context, not a passenger record: a Larne ship for Charleston in 1773 had a Shutter as master. Belfast News-Letter, 5 March 1773, p. 3 (BNA article BL/0000038/17730305/011). Full-page OCR: "For CHARLESTOWN in SOUTH-CAROLINA. THE Ship JUPITER, Robert Shutter, Master, shortly expected in this Harbour from Baltimore, will be clear to sail from hence for the Port aforesaid the 10th of May next. Those that intend taking their Passage by said Vessel, are desired to apply to John Montgomery and Co. of Larne, Andrew Thompson of Newry, or Thomas Bark[...; OCR unclear] ... on Saturday, in Ballymena." No Glasgow is named. It shows a Larne-based sailing to South Carolina in May 1773, fitting the reported 1772/73 migration of James's family, and links it to the Shutter family, who already had a business connection with the Larne Glasgows (1749 mortgage). It does not show that James or anyone of his household sailed on her. This record was not in the research corpus.
  • Searches that found nothing: Findmypast record searches keyed to Kilwaughter, Ballykeel, Raloo and Carncastle returned no Glasgow-surname records of any period. The British Newspaper Archive searches "glasgow" with Larne for 1765–1775 (11 hits: the 1768 rope-walk advertisement and the 1773 Jupiter notice above), "james glasgow" with Kilwaughter (28 hits), "glasgow" with Kilwaughter for 1738–1830 (13 hits) and "glasgow" with "larne carolina" (first 200 of 3,991 read) found no notice naming James, Robert or Archibald Glasgow, no 1772 petition text and no emigrant passenger list.

Identity and family

Identity assessment — newspaper candidates withdrawn, 6 October 2026
  • The South-Carolina and American General Gazette, 1775-08-25, p.1: no longer a candidate for this profile. James Glasgow and Ezekiel Glasgow in the Charlestown, South Carolina, General Post Office letter list of 21 August 1775. James is possibly the Ayr-born James of Newberry District (Glasgow-804, arrived South Carolina 1769); the Kilwaughter James (Glasgow-1144), reported to have emigrated in late 1772 or 1773 and recorded in South Carolina on 16 November 1774 (derivative chronology), is equally compatible. Nothing links either man to the letter list, so the entry is unassigned. (Corrected 6 October 2026: an earlier note wrongly said his children were still being born in County Antrim to 1775.) No WikiTree Ezekiel fits.
Identity assessment — newspaper candidates withdrawn, 6 October 2026
  • Jackson’s Oxford Journal, 1779-04-10, p.3: no longer a candidate for this profile. April 1779 reports of the Hackman/Martha Ray shooting name James Glasgow, chairman (sedan-chair carrier), who took the pistol and handed it to Halliburton. A London chairman with no identifying detail; no WikiTree profile can be assigned.

Other research notes

McCrackin probate and descendant update — 13 August 2026King’s Creek cemetery evidence now uniquely identifies Rachel's husband as the Robert McCrackin who died 10 August 1817 aged 46.

King’s Creek cemetery evidence now uniquely identifies Rachel's husband as the Robert McCrackin who died 10 August 1817 aged 46. Ruth and Pulauski are explicitly called children of R. and R. McCrackin. Cyrus McCrackin, who administered Robert's 1817 estate and is buried in the same family plot, is a strong but still unproved son candidate. The 1821 Robert estate belongs to a different man.

The 1790 Newberry transcript has five McCrackin households, not two: two James households plus Arthur, John and Thomas. If Robert, then about 19, was already in Newberry, Thomas's one-adult-male household cannot contain him; a James or Arthur household could. Arrival after 1790 remains a competing explanation. Volume II of Bundrick and Suber's probate abstracts covers boxes 11–25, exactly including Thomas 1804, William 1805 and Arthur 1812/1817. William's estate, jointly administered by Thomas and Robert, remains the best non-PRONI kinship target; no free online copy of volume II was located.

The same public collection's links for South Carolina implied marriages, volumes VI and VII, were checked as a further-marriage route. Each download is only a two-page cover/sample file and contains no searchable Glasgow or McCracken entry; it is not the advertised full volume.

The grandchild generation has also expanded. Hiram Glasgow-3995, a son of Wilson and Mary, married Mary Ann Brandon Kennedy. Their daughter Cleora Glasgow married Leland McNary Speers on 17 October 1867; their son Leonidas is independently identified in a biographical account. John Leland Glasgow, Absolom's son, married Sarah Owens and later Susannah Cromer. These marriages extend the Newberry descendant map but do not identify Robert McCrackin's father.

Missing profiles and conflict
  • Create or identify Margaret Glasgow, wife of John Kinard.
  • Update Rachel Glasgow-3978 and Mariah Glasgow-3994; both were newly created before the second live audit. Do not create the stale drafts.
  • Create or identify Rachel's husband Robert McCrackin and Mariah's husband William McCracken. No compatible profiles were found.
  • The sworn answer calls Robert the oldest son, but present cemetery-derived dates make John older. Do not alter either birth year until the stones and original court file are compared.
  • Do not treat Crosier or Crozier as Mary's established birth surname.
Original-image proof: Robert's son James — 21 September 2026Registry of Deeds memorial 159661 , pp.

Registry of Deeds memorial 159661, pp. 415–416, records Robert Glasgow of Ballykeel, parish of Kilwaughter, granting Hugh Shannon of the same parish a lease dated 20 December 1764. The opening reads Twentyth day of Decr, not a twenty-seventh date. The premises comprise one half of Lower Ballykeel, estimated at thirty-one acres and a half, with half the office houses and associated appurtenances, held under William Agnew of Kilwaughter.

The continuation expressly includes Jas Glasgow son of the sd Robt among the lease lives, alongside Robert Glasgow the grantor and Elinor [surname not legible on the saved screenshot; the FamilySearch machine text reads Jones] otherwise Agnew, daughter of William Agnew. This is direct contemporary father–son wording, rather than an inference from the James Glasgow junior life in memorial 74015 (13 February 1738/9). Read in the same Ballykeel tenure and independently documented household, it corroborates Robert-1143 as father of James-1144. The memorial itself gives James no age, birthplace, mother or later American residence: those identity details still depend on the register and other records.

Hugh Shannon's participation is proved, but this lease does not call him Robert's son-in-law. His marriage to Ann Glasgow belongs to the independent family evidence. Nor does this document identify Robert's own father or supply a bridge to Robert-1502 or James-1081.

The deed and memorial were witnessed by James Shutter and Hugh Kennedy; the continuation records James Shutter's affidavit at Carrickfergus on 29 March 1766. The registration was probably on 18 April 1766: the memorial's own margin note lies outside the saved screenshot of image 542, the neighbouring memorials 159660 and 159663 were registered on 18 April 1766, and the FamilySearch machine text reads "13th". The reviewed screenshots independently expose the lease-day and kinship wording; the memorial number is from the accompanying main-task header reading, since the opening screenshot is cropped at its left edge. Re-check the margin of image 542 at full resolution before quoting the day as certain.

Sources: Registry of Deeds memorial 159661, pp.415–416, FamilySearch images 542, 3Q9M-CSH3-33Q6-L and 543, 3Q9M-CSH3-33QZ-Y. Locally reviewed original-register image captures: opening, continuation. These are images of the registered memorial, not the separately executed lease.

Still open

Questions the records have not yet answered, suggested next searches and suggested corrections.

Correction: 1768 Larne assignment — 20 August 2026

The 28 March 1768 assignment should be removed from this profile. Inspection of the original memorial image shows that the assignor was James Glasgow, ropemaker, not soapmaker. He was assigning the plot, workhouse and remainder of the same ropewalk lease granted in 1760 to James Glasgow of Belfast, ropemaker. The occupational and property continuity, followed by a Larne “Roper” reference in Alexander Holmes's 1799 will, identifies the record with the local ropemaker represented by Glasgow-1509, not with the South Carolina settler.

The same 1768 memorial separately names another James Glasgow, a tanner, as witness. That tanner sequence is treated under Glasgow-3991. The deed therefore documents two contemporary Larne men and cannot be used as evidence that this profile disposed of property before emigrating.

Next questions

Compare original local tax, land, probate and institutional records, preserving the list’s stated role; check plausible catalogue profiles before an identity or relationship change.

Next questions

Inspect original inquest and trial testimony for residence and occupation; compare namesakes only when an identifier bridges them.

Recommended correction — death date and children's birthplaces, 6 October 2026Death: before 13 July 1793 , when his will, dated 17 October 1775, was proved (Newberry, Will Book A, p.

Death: before 13 July 1793, when his will, dated 17 October 1775, was proved (Newberry, Will Book A, p. 194; known through a derivative transcription). No death date is recorded; the present "about 1793" should read "before 13 July 1793".

Children's birthplaces. WikiTree gives Margaret (Glasgow-3977, born 1773) and Rachel (Glasgow-3978, born 1775) a County Antrim birthplace, marked uncertain. James is reported to have emigrated in late 1772 or 1773 and is recorded in South Carolina on 16 November 1774 (derivative chronology), so those birthplaces are unsupported and conflict with that chronology. They are the origin of the mistaken statement, now corrected in the newspaper notes above, that his children were still being born in County Antrim to 1775. Archibald (Glasgow-2304, born 1768/9) has the opposite problem: a South Carolina birthplace before the family emigrated.

These are proposals for the WikiTree date fields and are queued for review; nothing has been changed on WikiTree.

Next records — Y-DNA testing recommendation, 6 October 2026

Neither Kilwaughter kit has an SNP result: the one reported for James 1731-1775 (Y-37) and the one reported for his father Robert c.1710 (Y-111). The recommendation of 6 October 2026 asks first, through the project administrator, which of James's sons each kit descends from, and whether either runs through Archibald Glasgow-2304. A kit that does is a test of the James J Glasgow-2738 hypothesis, not an independent line. The Robert c.1710 kit is the first to upgrade to Big Y-700, and this one the second if it descends through a different son. No result can name a father. Full recommendation.

Family and relationships

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Parents 2✓ Robert Glasgowc. 1710–c. 1772Rachel (Wilson) Glasgowc. 1680–c. 1742
Person and datesRelationshipCurrent assessmentWhy this relationship is shown
Robert Glasgow
c. 1710–c. 1772		fatherDocumented father–son relationship; original memorialThe original registered memorial 159661, lease dated 20 December 1764, expressly names Jas Glasgow as son of Robert Glasgow of Ballykeel, Kilwaughter. The register chronology and equity evidence identify the son with James Glasgow-1144; the deed alone does not prove his American migration.
Supporting record
Rachel (Wilson) Glasgow
c. 1680–c. 1742		motherStrongly supported motherThe maintained research assesses this relationship; the linked record and qualification explain what is established.
Spouse or partner 1Mary (Crosier) Glasgowc. 1737–10 October 1822
Person and datesRelationshipCurrent assessmentWhy this relationship is shown
Mary (Crosier) Glasgow
c. 1737–10 October 1822		spouseStrongly supported spouseThe maintained research assesses this relationship; the linked record and qualification explain what is established.
Children 6John Glasgowc. 1756–11 December 1826Robert Glasgowc. 1763–17 January 1835Archibald Glasgowc. 1769–22 July 1818Wilson Crossier Glasgowc. 1772–11 September 1817Margaret Kinard Glasgow1773–date not establishedRachel McCrackin Glasgow1775–date not established
Person and datesRelationshipCurrent assessmentWhy this relationship is shown
John Glasgow
c. 1756–11 December 1826		sonStrongly supported sonThe maintained research assesses this relationship; the linked record and qualification explain what is established.
Robert Glasgow
c. 1763–17 January 1835		sonStrongly supported sonThe maintained research assesses this relationship; the linked record and qualification explain what is established.
Archibald Glasgow
c. 1769–22 July 1818		sonStrongly supported sonThe maintained research assesses this relationship; the linked record and qualification explain what is established.
Wilson Crossier Glasgow
c. 1772–11 September 1817		sonStrongly supported sonThe maintained research assesses this relationship; the linked record and qualification explain what is established.
Margaret Kinard Glasgow
1773–date not established		daughterUnassessed daughter linkFrom the family tree; not yet checked against records.
Rachel McCrackin Glasgow
1775–date not established		daughterUnassessed daughter linkFrom the family tree; not yet checked against records.
Brothers and sisters 2Ann Taggard Shannon15 November 1733–date not establishedRachel Glasgow8 November 1738–date not established
Person and datesRelationshipCurrent assessmentWhy this relationship is shown
Ann Taggard Shannon
15 November 1733–date not established		siblingUnassessed sibling linkFrom the family tree; not yet checked against records.
Rachel Glasgow
8 November 1738–date not established		siblingUnassessed sibling linkFrom the family tree; not yet checked against records.

Life and records

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Historical chronology

Birth

Subject

Life events

Kilwaughter, Larne, County Antrim, Ireland

Son of Robert Glasgow and Rachel Wilson

Record association

Records mentioning this person

Kilwaughter

Record detail

The derivative congregation-register chronology gives the exact date and parents; deed and equity evidence independently corroborate the household.

Source register · Open record

Former session member in discipline entry

Record association

Records mentioning this person

Kilwaughter

Record detail

The record does not establish whether this was the older 1699 actor or Robert married to Rachel Wilson.

Source register · Open record

Robert Glasgow to Hugh Shannon: Ballykeel lease, memorial 159661

Named life, Jas, expressly son of Robert

Records mentioning this person

Ballykeel, Kilwaughter, County Antrim

Record detail

The original registered memorial 159661, lease dated 20 December 1764, expressly names Jas Glasgow as son of Robert Glasgow of Ballykeel, Kilwaughter. The register chronology and equity evidence identify the son with James Glasgow-1144; the deed alone does not prove his American migration. Hugh Shannon is not called son-in-law by this lease.

Source register · Open record

Death

Subject

Life events

Newberry, South Carolina, United States

Sources

Browse 3 source recordsReferences and source limitations

  1. Son of Robert Glasgow and Rachel Wilson

    24 May 1731 · Kilwaughter · Source association

    The derivative congregation-register chronology gives the exact date and parents; deed and equity evidence independently corroborate the household.

    Open cited record or transcription · Back to chronology

  2. Former session member in discipline entry

    17 May 1747 · Kilwaughter · Source association

    The record does not establish whether this was the older 1699 actor or Robert married to Rachel Wilson.

    Open cited record or transcription · Back to chronology

  3. Robert Glasgow to Hugh Shannon: Ballykeel lease, memorial 159661

    20 December 1764 · Ballykeel, Kilwaughter, County Antrim · Original registered memorial images reviewed

    The original registered memorial 159661, lease dated 20 December 1764, expressly names Jas Glasgow as son of Robert Glasgow of Ballykeel, Kilwaughter. The register chronology and equity evidence identify the son with James Glasgow-1144; the deed alone does not prove his American migration. Hugh Shannon is not called son-in-law by this lease.

    Open cited record or transcription · Back to chronology

Each entry is a separately identified record. Shared URLs may represent one transcription or search page containing more than one record; they are not independent confirmations.

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Research notes as originally written

Current conclusion

James's 1775 will names his wife Mary and six children: Robert, John, Archibald,
Wilson, Margaret and Rachel. The 1817 equity complaint repeats the children,
identifies Margaret as wife of John Kinard and Rachel as wife of Robert
McCrackin, and identifies James as a son of Rachel Wilson. Robert Glasgow-1983's
sworn answer independently calls James his father, Mary his mother and Rachel
his paternal grandmother. The amended answer makes Archibald Wilson Rachel's
brother, so it also identifies James's maternal uncle and Robert's paternal
great-uncle.

Rachel's McCrackin marriage was part of a repeated alliance within this exact
family. Her brother Wilson Crossier `Glasgow-1982` married Mary McCracken, and
their daughter Mariah married William McCracken. The three unions span two
successive generations of Robert `Glasgow-1143`'s descendant line. Their force
depends on identifying the relationships among Robert, Mary and William
McCracken; no inspected record yet supplies those relationships or an Irish
origin for the Newberry McCrackens.

The congregation-register chronology additionally records James born 24 May 1731
to Robert and Rachel Glasgow. The conclusions are strongly supported by concordant
transcriptions of distinct original records. Original-image review of memorial
159661 (20 December 1764) now independently corroborates his father Robert with
the express wording `Jas Glasgow son of the sd Robt`; see the dated proof
section below. That inspection does not verify the images of the other records.

The equity pleadings say James's wife Mary was a daughter of one of Rachel
Wilson's five sisters. On the pleaded relationships James and Mary were first
cousins. Neither the pleadings nor James's will gives Mary the surname
Crozier/Crosier or identifies which sister was her mother. The structured
`Crosier-512` identity therefore exceeds the documentary evidence.

Private family details withheld.

Source findings

Private family details withheld.

McCrackin probate and descendant update — 13 August 2026

King’s Creek cemetery evidence now uniquely identifies Rachel's husband as the
Robert McCrackin who died 10 August 1817 aged 46. Ruth and Pulauski are
explicitly called children of R. and R. McCrackin. Cyrus McCrackin, who
administered Robert's 1817 estate and is buried in the same family plot, is a
strong but still unproved son candidate. The 1821 Robert estate belongs to a
different man.

The 1790 Newberry transcript has five McCrackin households, not two: two James
households plus Arthur, John and Thomas. If Robert, then about 19, was already
in Newberry, Thomas's one-adult-male household cannot contain him; a James or
Arthur household could. Arrival after 1790 remains a competing explanation.
Volume II of Bundrick and Suber's probate abstracts covers boxes 11–25, exactly
including Thomas 1804, William 1805 and Arthur 1812/1817. William's estate,
jointly administered by Thomas and Robert, remains the best non-PRONI kinship
target; no free online copy of volume II was located.

The same public collection's links for South Carolina implied marriages,
volumes VI and VII, were checked as a further-marriage route. Each download is
only a two-page cover/sample file and contains no searchable Glasgow or
McCracken entry; it is not the advertised full volume.

The grandchild generation has also expanded. Hiram `Glasgow-3995`, a son of
Wilson and Mary, married Mary Ann Brandon Kennedy. Their daughter Cleora
Glasgow married Leland McNary Speers on 17 October 1867; their son Leonidas is
independently identified in a biographical account. John Leland Glasgow,
Absolom's son, married Sarah Owens and later Susannah Cromer. These marriages
extend the Newberry descendant map but do not identify Robert McCrackin's
father.

Missing profiles and conflict

- Create or identify Margaret Glasgow, wife of John Kinard.
- Update Rachel `Glasgow-3978` and Mariah `Glasgow-3994`; both were newly
  created before the second live audit. Do not create the stale drafts.
- Create or identify Rachel's husband Robert McCrackin and Mariah's husband
  William McCracken. No compatible profiles were found.
- The sworn answer calls Robert the oldest son, but present cemetery-derived dates
  make John older. Do not alter either birth year until the stones and original
  court file are compared.
- Do not treat `Crosier` or `Crozier` as Mary's established birth surname.

Correction: 1768 Larne assignment — 20 August 2026

The 28 March 1768 assignment should be removed from this profile. Inspection of the [original memorial image](https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSJW-DDXW) shows that the assignor was **James Glasgow, ropemaker**, not soapmaker. He was assigning the plot, workhouse and remainder of the same ropewalk lease granted in 1760 to James Glasgow of Belfast, ropemaker. The occupational and property continuity, followed by a Larne “Roper” reference in Alexander Holmes's 1799 will, identifies the record with the local ropemaker represented by `Glasgow-1509`, not with the South Carolina settler.

The same 1768 memorial separately names another James Glasgow, a tanner, as witness. That tanner sequence is treated under `Glasgow-3991`. The deed therefore documents two contemporary Larne men and cannot be used as evidence that this profile disposed of property before emigrating.

Original-image proof: Robert's son James — 21 September 2026

Registry of Deeds memorial **159661**, pp. **415–416**, records Robert Glasgow
of Ballykeel, parish of Kilwaughter, granting Hugh Shannon of the same parish
a lease dated **20 December 1764**. The opening reads `Twentyth day of Decr`,
not a twenty-seventh date. The premises comprise one half of Lower Ballykeel,
estimated at thirty-one acres and a half, with half the office houses and
associated appurtenances, held under William Agnew of Kilwaughter.

The continuation expressly includes `Jas Glasgow son of the sd Robt` among the
lease lives, alongside Robert Glasgow the grantor and Elinor [surname not
legible on the saved screenshot; the FamilySearch machine text reads Jones] otherwise
Agnew, daughter of William Agnew. **This is direct contemporary father–son
wording**, rather than an inference from the `James Glasgow junior` life in
memorial 74015 (13 February 1738/9). Read in the same Ballykeel tenure and independently
documented household, it corroborates Robert-1143 as father of James-1144.
The memorial itself gives James no age, birthplace, mother or later American
residence: those identity details still depend on the register and other records.

Hugh Shannon's participation is proved, but this lease does **not** call him
Robert's son-in-law. His marriage to Ann Glasgow belongs to the independent
family evidence. Nor does this document identify Robert's own father or supply
a bridge to Robert-1502 or James-1081.

The deed and memorial were witnessed by James Shutter and Hugh Kennedy; the
continuation records James Shutter's affidavit at Carrickfergus on **29 March
1766**. The registration was probably on **18 April 1766**: the memorial's own
margin note lies outside the saved screenshot of image 542, the neighbouring memorials
159660 and 159663 were registered on 18 April 1766, and the FamilySearch machine text
reads "13th". The reviewed screenshots independently expose the lease-day and kinship
wording; the memorial number is from the accompanying main-task header reading, since the
opening screenshot is cropped at its left edge. Re-check the margin of image 542 at full
resolution before quoting the day as certain.

Sources: Registry of Deeds memorial 159661, pp.415–416, FamilySearch images
[542, 3Q9M-CSH3-33Q6-L](https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSH3-33Q6-L)
and [543, 3Q9M-CSH3-33QZ-Y](https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSH3-33QZ-Y).
Locally reviewed original-register image captures:
[opening](../larne-proof-2026-09-21/sources/fs-33Q6-original.png),
[continuation](../larne-proof-2026-09-21/sources/fs-33QZ-original.png).
These are images of the registered memorial, not the separately executed lease.

Current conclusion — postal and certificate originals, 5 October 2026

James Glasgow, Charlestown postal addressee, 1775: Born 24 May 1731, Kilwaughter, County Antrim, exact; death c.1793, Newberry, South Carolina, estimated. A James Glasgow with a South Carolina location and a 1775 will is chronologically compatible with the Charleston addressee, but the will does not bridge him to the letter list. The estimated c.1793 death is not evidence he lived to December 1789; it also is not a precise death boundary excluding the 1789 entry. The profile's exact birth and Newberry family are distinct from Glasgow-804's; the catalogue calls them similar, which does not establish identity or justify combining their family evidence. Glasgow-804 and Glasgow-1144 have compatible South Carolina context, but no letter-list identity bridge. Their family evidence remains separate. No connection to co-listed Ezekiel, the Philadelphia addressee or the Greenwich Packet master is proved. No relationship change follows.

Source findings

James Glasgow and Ezekiel Glasgow appear in the list of letters remaining in Charlestown’s General Post Office, dated 21 August 1775. Alphabetical entries printed surname first: Glasgow James, followed by a small 2 marker, and Glasgow Ezekiel. The marker is not read as an age. Letter-list appearance alone proves no kinship, occupation, continuous residence or identity with later James records. [The South-Carolina and American General Gazette, 1775-08-25, p.1](https://www.newspapers.com/image/605068969/)

Next questions

Compare original local tax, land, probate and institutional records, preserving the list’s stated role; check plausible catalogue profiles before an identity or relationship change.

Current conclusion — additional newspaper originals, 5 October 2026

James Glasgow, Hackman affair witness, 1779: Adult lifespan compatible; no London bridge to the South Carolina family. The approximate death is not a precise boundary. James is a named witness in one reprinted report, with no checked profile identified. The postal and shipmaster James subjects remain separate; no kinship or travel history is established. No family or life-date change follows.

Source findings

James Glasgow and Andrew Doyle, styled chairmen, are named among persons examined in the Hackman/Miss Ray affair; Glasgow reportedly removed the pistol and gave it to Halliburton. The Hackman/Miss Ray report names James Glasgow and Andrew Doyle as chairmen among those examined, and says Glasgow took the pistol from Hackman and gave it to constable Halliburton. Chairmen is preserved without expanding the occupation. Two original issues reprint one account; reported testimony is not a separate trial verdict or proof of family identity. James is a named witness in one reprinted report, with no checked profile identified. The postal and shipmaster James subjects remain separate; no kinship or travel history is established. [Gloucester Journal, 1779-04-12, p.3](https://www.newspapers.com/image/970974651/), [Berrow's Worcester Journal, 1779-04-15, p.1](https://www.newspapers.com/image/1211966255/)

Next questions

Inspect original inquest and trial testimony for residence and occupation; compare namesakes only when an identifier bridges them.

Current conclusion — Oxford Hackman witness reprint, 5 October 2026

James is a named witness in one reprinted report, with no checked profile identified. The postal and shipmaster James subjects remain separate; no kinship or travel history is established.

James Glasgow and Andrew Doyle, styled chairmen, are named among persons examined in the Hackman/Miss Ray affair; Glasgow reportedly removed the pistol and gave it to Halliburton. The Hackman/Miss Ray report names James Glasgow and Andrew Doyle as chairmen among those examined, and says Glasgow took the pistol from Hackman and gave it to constable Halliburton. Chairmen is preserved without expanding the occupation. Two original issues reprint one account; reported testimony is not a separate trial verdict or proof of family identity. James is a named witness in one reprinted report, with no checked profile identified. The postal and shipmaster James subjects remain separate; no kinship or travel history is established. [Gloucester Journal, 1779-04-12, p.3](https://www.newspapers.com/image/970974651/), [Berrow's Worcester Journal, 1779-04-15, p.1](https://www.newspapers.com/image/1211966255/), [Jackson’s Oxford Journal, 1779-04-10, p.3](https://www.newspapers.com/image/396539533/)

Identity assessment — newspaper candidates withdrawn, 6 October 2026

- [The South-Carolina and American General Gazette, 1775-08-25, p.1](https://www.newspapers.com/image/605068969/): no longer a candidate for this profile. James Glasgow and Ezekiel Glasgow in the Charlestown, South Carolina, General Post Office letter list of 21 August 1775. James is possibly the Ayr-born James of Newberry District (Glasgow-804, arrived South Carolina 1769); the Kilwaughter James (Glasgow-1144), reported to have emigrated in late 1772 or 1773 and recorded in South Carolina on 16 November 1774 (derivative chronology), is equally compatible. Nothing links either man to the letter list, so the entry is unassigned. (Corrected 6 October 2026: an earlier note wrongly said his children were still being born in County Antrim to 1775.) No WikiTree Ezekiel fits.

Identity assessment — newspaper candidates withdrawn, 6 October 2026

- [Jackson’s Oxford Journal, 1779-04-10, p.3](https://www.newspapers.com/image/396539533/): no longer a candidate for this profile. April 1779 reports of the Hackman/Martha Ray shooting name James Glasgow, chairman (sedan-chair carrier), who took the pistol and handed it to Halliburton. A London chairman with no identifying detail; no WikiTree profile can be assigned.

Recommended correction — death date and children's birthplaces, 6 October 2026

**Death: before 13 July 1793**, when his will, dated 17 October 1775, was proved (Newberry, Will Book A, p. 194; known through a derivative transcription). No death date is recorded; the present "about 1793" should read "before 13 July 1793".

**Children's birthplaces.** WikiTree gives Margaret (Glasgow-3977, born 1773) and Rachel (Glasgow-3978, born 1775) a County Antrim birthplace, marked uncertain. James is reported to have emigrated in late 1772 or 1773 and is recorded in South Carolina on 16 November 1774 (derivative chronology), so those birthplaces are unsupported and conflict with that chronology. They are the origin of the mistaken statement, now corrected in the newspaper notes above, that his children were still being born in County Antrim to 1775. Archibald (Glasgow-2304, born 1768/9) has the opposite problem: a South Carolina birthplace before the family emigrated.

These are proposals for the WikiTree date fields and are queued for review; nothing has been changed on WikiTree.

Next records — Y-DNA testing recommendation, 6 October 2026

Neither Kilwaughter kit has an SNP result: the one reported for James 1731-1775 (Y-37) and the one reported for his father Robert c.1710 (Y-111). The recommendation of 6 October 2026 asks first, through the project administrator, which of James's sons each kit descends from, and whether either runs through Archibald Glasgow-2304. A kit that does is a test of the James J Glasgow-2738 hypothesis, not an independent line. The Robert c.1710 kit is the first to upgrade to Big Y-700, and this one the second if it descends through a different son. No result can name a father. [Full recommendation](/people/glasgow-951.html#next-research).

Source findings — Finley entries in the Kilwaughter source notes, 1793–1795

The archived Kilwaughter source notes that report Ann Finley's 1802 will also say that James Glasgow's will was executed in 1793 by **James Finley** and witnessed by **Ann Finley**, and that the 1795 will of **James Finlay** (wife Ann; brothers Robert and Hugh; sisters Margaret, Eleanor and Mary) was executed on the oath of **Robert Glasgow** and witnessed by **John Glasgow** and **Archibald Glasgow**. No will book, page or county is given for the 1795 will.

Seen as: a later researcher's abstract copied into the owner's notes; the originals have not been read. That these Robert, John and Archibald are James's sons is an inference from the names and setting, not a statement in the abstract. With the 1802 will, this strengthens the Finley–Glasgow association but states no kinship. Next record: the Newberry County will books for 1793 and 1795.

Recorded in `archive/dump/TheGlasgows.md` (owner's checklist export of 10 March 2025); carried into this file on 7 October 2026.

Source findings

### Findmypast sweep — 7 October 2026
- **New context, not a passenger record: a Larne ship for Charleston in 1773 had a Shutter as master.** *Belfast News-Letter*, 5 March 1773, p. 3 (BNA article BL/0000038/17730305/011). Full-page OCR: "For CHARLESTOWN in SOUTH-CAROLINA. THE Ship JUPITER, Robert Shutter, Master, shortly expected in this Harbour from Baltimore, will be clear to sail from hence for the Port aforesaid the 10th of May next. Those that intend taking their Passage by said Vessel, are desired to apply to John Montgomery and Co. of Larne, Andrew Thompson of Newry, or Thomas Bark[...; OCR unclear] ... on Saturday, in Ballymena." No Glasgow is named. It shows a Larne-based sailing to South Carolina in May 1773, fitting the reported 1772/73 migration of James's family, and links it to the Shutter family, who already had a business connection with the Larne Glasgows (1749 mortgage). It does not show that James or anyone of his household sailed on her. This record was not in the research corpus.
- Searches that found nothing: Findmypast record searches keyed to Kilwaughter, Ballykeel, Raloo and Carncastle returned no Glasgow-surname records of any period. The British Newspaper Archive searches "glasgow" with Larne for 1765–1775 (11 hits: the 1768 rope-walk advertisement and the 1773 Jupiter notice above), "james glasgow" with Kilwaughter (28 hits), "glasgow" with Kilwaughter for 1738–1830 (13 hits) and "glasgow" with "larne carolina" (first 200 of 3,991 read) found no notice naming James, Robert or Archibald Glasgow, no 1772 petition text and no emigrant passenger list.
Research data and downloads

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