Robert Glasgow II

Biography
Robert Glasgow is the name used in later compiled genealogies for the supposed husband of Ann Johnson, also reported as Ann Johnston, and the alleged father of several people associated with colonial Virginia.

Robert's date and place of birth have not been identified. No inspected contemporary record names his parents, occupation, wife or children.
Reported marriage to Ann Johnson
Later family trees and compiled genealogies represent Robert as the husband of Ann Johnson or Ann Johnston.

No marriage record, deed, will, court order, parish entry, land record or other contemporary source has yet been found identifying Robert and Ann as spouses.

A 1994 compiled family history has been cited for the family, but it was written more than three centuries after the supposed marriage and does not itself constitute primary evidence. Thomas Rudolph Topping, comp., Topping/Latham Family History and Allied Families: Alligood, Brewer, Chilton, Ethridge, Glasgow, Satchwell, Shavender, Sillery, Wiggins, Windley and Winstead: Generation to Generation (https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/154949-topping-latham-family-history-and-allied-families-alligood-brewer-chilton-ethridge-glasgow-satchwell-shavender-sillery-wiggins-windley-and-winstead-generation-to-generation) (Charlotte, North Carolina: compiler, 1994), FamilySearch Digital Library book 154949. The underlying contemporary evidence for Robert's marriage, dates and children has not been identified. 

The relationship to Ann should remain marked uncertain unless a contemporary record naming the couple together is found.
Possible identification with Robert Glascocke
A man recorded as Robert Glascocke was living in the Elizabeth River area of colonial Virginia during the 1630s and 1640.

On 7 October 1635 Robert Glascocke received a patent for 200 acres in Elizabeth City County. The land was situated on the south side of the main river, adjoining land of Lieutenant Cheeseman. The patent was granted for the transportation of four servants. Nell Marion Nugent, ed., Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, 1623–1800 (https://archive.org/details/cavalierspioneer00nuge/page/33/mode/2up), vol. 1 (Richmond, Virginia: Dietz Printing Company, 1934), p. 33, abstract of Virginia Patent Book 1, p. 290: patent to Robert Glascocke, 200 acres, Elizabeth City County, 7 October 1635. 

On 10 June 1639 Robert Glascocke received a further patent for 50 acres in Lower New Norfolk County. The property was situated up the western branch of the Elizabeth River, above the land of Jonathan Langworth. The patent was granted for the transportation of Iszabella Dixon. Nell Marion Nugent, ed., Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, 1623–1800 (https://archive.org/details/cavalierspioneer00nuge/page/111/mode/2up), vol. 1 (Richmond, Virginia: Dietz Printing Company, 1934), p. 111, abstract of Virginia Patent Book 1, p. 658: patent to Robert Glascocke, 50 acres, Lower New Norfolk County, 10 June 1639. 

A Lower Norfolk County court order dated 6 July 1640 directed that the local minister preach every other Sunday at the house of Robert Glascocke until a church could be built for the inhabitants of the Elizabeth River area. Edward W. James, ed., The Lower Norfolk County Virginia Antiquary (https://archive.org/details/lowernorfolkcoun01newy/page/84/mode/2up), vol. 1 (1895; reprint, New York: Peter Smith, 1951), p. 84, Lower Norfolk County court order, 6 July 1640: the minister was to preach at the house of Robert Glascocke until a church was constructed. 

The matching name and Elizabeth River locality make it probable that the patents and court order concern the same Robert Glascocke.

These records prove that a man named Robert Glascocke owned land and maintained a household in the Elizabeth River area between 1635 and 1640. They do not identify:

* his wife;
* any children;
* his age or birthplace;
* his parents;
* a connection with Scotland;
* a connection with Ann Johnson or Johnston; or
* a connection with Daniel Glasco.

The identity of Robert Glascocke with the Robert Glasgow represented by this profile remains uncertain. The surnames should not be treated as interchangeable without a record demonstrating that they referred to the same family.
Reported children
Later family trees have attributed several children to Robert and Ann, including:

* Edward Travis Glasgow;
* Robert Glasgow;
* Thomas Glasgow;
* Mary Glasgow, later represented as a wife of a Moncrief; and
* Daniel or William Daniel Glasgow.

No inspected contemporary record identifies any of these people as a child of Robert Glasgow and Ann Johnson or Johnston.

The reported relationships appear to derive from compiled pedigrees rather than original colonial records. They should remain uncertain or be removed unless independent evidence is found.
Daniel Glasco and Mary Gamon
A Daniel Glasco is independently documented in Lower Norfolk County during the 1690s.

The will of John Gamon, dated 4 October 1693 and proved 15 March 1694, identified Daniel Glasco as Gamon's son-in-law and named Daniel's wife as Mary. John Gamon left the couple eighty acres bordering Richford Swamp. Charles Fleming McIntosh, Brief Abstract of Lower Norfolk County and Norfolk County Wills, 1637–1710 (Virginia: Colonial Dames of America, 1914), p. 149, abstract of the will of John Gamon, dated 4 October 1693 and proved 15 March 1694; discussed in Legacy Tree Genealogists, “Research Report” (https://www.legacytree.com/wp-content/uploads/T1508095.CLIENTGlasgow1508.report.public.pdf) (1 March 2016), pp. 3–4. 

That record proves:

* Daniel Glasco was married to Mary Gamon by October 1693;
* John Gamon was Mary's father; and
* Daniel and Mary were associated with Lower Norfolk County.

The will does not identify Daniel's parents.

A professional review of the family found that online trees commonly represented Daniel as a son of Robert Glasgow and Ann Johnson, but those trees supplied no documentary evidence for the relationship. Legacy Tree Genealogists, “Research Report” (https://www.legacytree.com/wp-content/uploads/T1508095.CLIENTGlasgow1508.report.public.pdf) (1 March 2016), pp. 3–4: the report noted that online trees asserted Daniel Glasco was a son of Robert Glasgow and Ann Johnson but provided no documentary support. 

Daniel should not be attached as a certain son of Robert and Ann.
Unsupported birth and death information
Robert has previously been assigned a birth date of about 1612 in Scotland and a death date of about 1690 in Virginia.

No inspected record supports either date or place.

The earliest record belonging to the possible Virginia candidate is the 1635 patent to Robert Glascocke. This proves only that the patentee was living by 7 October 1635.

The latest presently inspected record is the Lower Norfolk County court order of 6 July 1640. If the Glascocke records concern the man represented by this profile, Robert was alive on that date.

A death date after 6 July 1640 may therefore be used only as uncertain. The former 1690 estimate should be removed.
Distinct from Scottish Robert Glasgows
This Robert should not be confused with Robert Glasgow, the cordiner who married Jonet or Janet Thomsone at Edinburgh on 1 July 1652.

The Edinburgh marriage record explicitly describes that Robert as a cordiner in Edinburgh. It contains no connection with Virginia, Ann Johnson or the colonial Glasco family.

This Robert should also not be confused with the Robert Glasgow buried at Duddingston, Midlothian, on 17 January 1647. No inspected record connects the Duddingston man with Virginia or with Ann Johnson.

Shared names and approximate chronology do not establish identity.
Ann's identity
No inspected record establishes:

* whether Ann's surname was Johnson or Johnston;
* her date or place of birth;
* her parents;
* a marriage to Robert;
* the identity of any children; or
* the reported death in James City County in 1682.

Her profile should not state these details as facts without contemporary evidence.
Possible Glasscock conflation
The Virginia records consistently identify the documented landholder as Robert Glascocke.

Separate compiled pedigrees associate a Robert Glasscock or Glascock with a wife named Deborah Ivey. Those pedigrees may have contributed to the later combination of the Glasgow, Glasco, Glascocke and Glasscock families.

No inspected record proves that:

* Robert Glascocke used the surname Glasgow;
* the Glascocke and Glasgow families were the same paternal family;
* Deborah Ivey was connected with this Robert;
* Robert married both Deborah Ivey and Ann Johnson; or
* either woman was the mother of Daniel Glasco.

Deborah Ivey should not be attached to this profile.
DNA evidence
A 2016 research report examined Y-DNA from a documented later Glasgow line. The tested line did not match the group then represented in the Glasgow surname project and instead had close matches to men bearing the Murtishaw or related surnames. Legacy Tree Genealogists, “Research Report” (https://www.legacytree.com/wp-content/uploads/T1508095.CLIENTGlasgow1508.report.public.pdf) (1 March 2016), pp. 4–10. 

The result may indicate a paternal-line break somewhere among the later descendants, or a separate paternal origin for that particular Glasgow line. It does not identify where such a break occurred and does not prove or disprove the existence of this Robert or his reported marriage to Ann.
Further research
Useful remaining research includes:

* the original 1635 and 1639 Virginia land patents;
* all surviving Lower Norfolk County court orders mentioning Robert Glascocke;
* Lower Norfolk and Elizabeth City County deeds and probate material;
* records concerning the later ownership of the Glascocke patents;
* any estate administration for Robert Glascocke;
* records identifying his wife, heirs or nearest relatives;
* evidence establishing whether Glascocke, Glasco and Glasgow were used for the same family;
* the original source used by the 1994 Topping compilation;
* records concerning Ann Johnson or Johnston;
* evidence identifying the parents of Daniel Glasco;
* records concerning the attributed children Edward, Robert, Thomas and Mary; and
* evidence connecting or separating the Virginia Glascocke and Glasco families.
SourcesAcknowledgements
This profile was separated from Scottish records formerly combined with the colonial Virginia family. The documented Edinburgh cordiner is now represented by Robert Glasgow.

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== Biography ==

'''Robert Glasgow''' is the name used in later compiled genealogies for the supposed husband of '''Ann Johnson''', also reported as Ann Johnston, and the alleged father of several people associated with colonial Virginia.

Robert's date and place of birth have not been identified. No inspected contemporary record names his parents, occupation, wife or children.

=== Reported marriage to Ann Johnson ===

Later family trees and compiled genealogies represent Robert as the husband of '''Ann Johnson''' or '''Ann Johnston'''.

No marriage record, deed, will, court order, parish entry, land record or other contemporary source has yet been found identifying Robert and Ann as spouses.

A 1994 compiled family history has been cited for the family, but it was written more than three centuries after the supposed marriage and does not itself constitute primary evidence.<ref name="Topping">Thomas Rudolph Topping, comp., [https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/154949-topping-latham-family-history-and-allied-families-alligood-brewer-chilton-ethridge-glasgow-satchwell-shavender-sillery-wiggins-windley-and-winstead-generation-to-generation ''Topping/Latham Family History and Allied Families: Alligood, Brewer, Chilton, Ethridge, Glasgow, Satchwell, Shavender, Sillery, Wiggins, Windley and Winstead: Generation to Generation''] (Charlotte, North Carolina: compiler, 1994), FamilySearch Digital Library book 154949. The underlying contemporary evidence for Robert's marriage, dates and children has not been identified.</ref>

The relationship to Ann should remain marked uncertain unless a contemporary record naming the couple together is found.

=== Possible identification with Robert Glascocke ===

A man recorded as '''Robert Glascocke''' was living in the Elizabeth River area of colonial Virginia during the 1630s and 1640.

On '''7 October 1635''' Robert Glascocke received a patent for 200 acres in Elizabeth City County. The land was situated on the south side of the main river, adjoining land of Lieutenant Cheeseman. The patent was granted for the transportation of four servants.<ref name="Patent1635">Nell Marion Nugent, ed., [https://archive.org/details/cavalierspioneer00nuge/page/33/mode/2up ''Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, 1623–1800''], vol. 1 (Richmond, Virginia: Dietz Printing Company, 1934), p. 33, abstract of Virginia Patent Book 1, p. 290: patent to Robert Glascocke, 200 acres, Elizabeth City County, 7 October 1635.</ref>

On '''10 June 1639''' Robert Glascocke received a further patent for 50 acres in Lower New Norfolk County. The property was situated up the western branch of the Elizabeth River, above the land of Jonathan Langworth. The patent was granted for the transportation of Iszabella Dixon.<ref name="Patent1639">Nell Marion Nugent, ed., [https://archive.org/details/cavalierspioneer00nuge/page/111/mode/2up ''Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, 1623–1800''], vol. 1 (Richmond, Virginia: Dietz Printing Company, 1934), p. 111, abstract of Virginia Patent Book 1, p. 658: patent to Robert Glascocke, 50 acres, Lower New Norfolk County, 10 June 1639.</ref>

A Lower Norfolk County court order dated '''6 July 1640''' directed that the local minister preach every other Sunday at the house of Robert Glascocke until a church could be built for the inhabitants of the Elizabeth River area.<ref name="Court1640">Edward W. James, ed., [https://archive.org/details/lowernorfolkcoun01newy/page/84/mode/2up ''The Lower Norfolk County Virginia Antiquary''], vol. 1 (1895; reprint, New York: Peter Smith, 1951), p. 84, Lower Norfolk County court order, 6 July 1640: the minister was to preach at the house of Robert Glascocke until a church was constructed.</ref>

The matching name and Elizabeth River locality make it probable that the patents and court order concern the same Robert Glascocke.

These records prove that a man named Robert Glascocke owned land and maintained a household in the Elizabeth River area between 1635 and 1640. They do not identify:

* his wife;
* any children;
* his age or birthplace;
* his parents;
* a connection with Scotland;
* a connection with Ann Johnson or Johnston; or
* a connection with Daniel Glasco.

The identity of Robert Glascocke with the Robert Glasgow represented by this profile remains uncertain. The surnames should not be treated as interchangeable without a record demonstrating that they referred to the same family.

=== Reported children ===

Later family trees have attributed several children to Robert and Ann, including:

* Edward Travis Glasgow;
* Robert Glasgow;
* Thomas Glasgow;
* Mary Glasgow, later represented as a wife of a Moncrief; and
* Daniel or William Daniel Glasgow.

No inspected contemporary record identifies any of these people as a child of Robert Glasgow and Ann Johnson or Johnston.

The reported relationships appear to derive from compiled pedigrees rather than original colonial records. They should remain uncertain or be removed unless independent evidence is found.

=== Daniel Glasco and Mary Gamon ===

A Daniel Glasco is independently documented in Lower Norfolk County during the 1690s.

The will of John Gamon, dated 4 October 1693 and proved 15 March 1694, identified Daniel Glasco as Gamon's son-in-law and named Daniel's wife as Mary. John Gamon left the couple eighty acres bordering Richford Swamp.<ref name="GamonWill">Charles Fleming McIntosh, ''Brief Abstract of Lower Norfolk County and Norfolk County Wills, 1637–1710'' (Virginia: Colonial Dames of America, 1914), p. 149, abstract of the will of John Gamon, dated 4 October 1693 and proved 15 March 1694; discussed in Legacy Tree Genealogists, [https://www.legacytree.com/wp-content/uploads/T1508095.CLIENTGlasgow1508.report.public.pdf “Research Report”] (1 March 2016), pp. 3–4.</ref>

That record proves:

* Daniel Glasco was married to Mary Gamon by October 1693;
* John Gamon was Mary's father; and
* Daniel and Mary were associated with Lower Norfolk County.

The will does not identify Daniel's parents.

A professional review of the family found that online trees commonly represented Daniel as a son of Robert Glasgow and Ann Johnson, but those trees supplied no documentary evidence for the relationship.<ref name="LegacyReport">Legacy Tree Genealogists, [https://www.legacytree.com/wp-content/uploads/T1508095.CLIENTGlasgow1508.report.public.pdf “Research Report”] (1 March 2016), pp. 3–4: the report noted that online trees asserted Daniel Glasco was a son of Robert Glasgow and Ann Johnson but provided no documentary support.</ref>

Daniel should not be attached as a certain son of Robert and Ann.

=== Unsupported birth and death information ===

Robert has previously been assigned a birth date of about 1612 in Scotland and a death date of about 1690 in Virginia.

No inspected record supports either date or place.

The earliest record belonging to the possible Virginia candidate is the 1635 patent to Robert Glascocke. This proves only that the patentee was living by 7 October 1635.

The latest presently inspected record is the Lower Norfolk County court order of 6 July 1640. If the Glascocke records concern the man represented by this profile, Robert was alive on that date.

A death date after 6 July 1640 may therefore be used only as uncertain. The former 1690 estimate should be removed.

=== Distinct from Scottish Robert Glasgows ===

This Robert should not be confused with '''[[Glasgow-3938|Robert Glasgow]]''', the cordiner who married Jonet or Janet Thomsone at Edinburgh on 1 July 1652.

The Edinburgh marriage record explicitly describes that Robert as a cordiner in Edinburgh. It contains no connection with Virginia, Ann Johnson or the colonial Glasco family.

This Robert should also not be confused with the Robert Glasgow buried at Duddingston, Midlothian, on 17 January 1647. No inspected record connects the Duddingston man with Virginia or with Ann Johnson.

Shared names and approximate chronology do not establish identity.

=== Ann's identity ===

No inspected record establishes:

* whether Ann's surname was Johnson or Johnston;
* her date or place of birth;
* her parents;
* a marriage to Robert;
* the identity of any children; or
* the reported death in James City County in 1682.

Her profile should not state these details as facts without contemporary evidence.

=== Possible Glasscock conflation ===

The Virginia records consistently identify the documented landholder as '''Robert Glascocke'''.

Separate compiled pedigrees associate a Robert Glasscock or Glascock with a wife named Deborah Ivey. Those pedigrees may have contributed to the later combination of the Glasgow, Glasco, Glascocke and Glasscock families.

No inspected record proves that:

* Robert Glascocke used the surname Glasgow;
* the Glascocke and Glasgow families were the same paternal family;
* Deborah Ivey was connected with this Robert;
* Robert married both Deborah Ivey and Ann Johnson; or
* either woman was the mother of Daniel Glasco.

Deborah Ivey should not be attached to this profile.

=== DNA evidence ===

A 2016 research report examined Y-DNA from a documented later Glasgow line. The tested line did not match the group then represented in the Glasgow surname project and instead had close matches to men bearing the Murtishaw or related surnames.<ref name="LegacyDNA">Legacy Tree Genealogists, [https://www.legacytree.com/wp-content/uploads/T1508095.CLIENTGlasgow1508.report.public.pdf “Research Report”] (1 March 2016), pp. 4–10.</ref>

The result may indicate a paternal-line break somewhere among the later descendants, or a separate paternal origin for that particular Glasgow line. It does not identify where such a break occurred and does not prove or disprove the existence of this Robert or his reported marriage to Ann.

=== Further research ===

Useful remaining research includes:

* the original 1635 and 1639 Virginia land patents;
* all surviving Lower Norfolk County court orders mentioning Robert Glascocke;
* Lower Norfolk and Elizabeth City County deeds and probate material;
* records concerning the later ownership of the Glascocke patents;
* any estate administration for Robert Glascocke;
* records identifying his wife, heirs or nearest relatives;
* evidence establishing whether Glascocke, Glasco and Glasgow were used for the same family;
* the original source used by the 1994 Topping compilation;
* records concerning Ann Johnson or Johnston;
* evidence identifying the parents of Daniel Glasco;
* records concerning the attributed children Edward, Robert, Thomas and Mary; and
* evidence connecting or separating the Virginia Glascocke and Glasco families.

== Sources ==

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== Acknowledgements ==

This profile was separated from Scottish records formerly combined with the colonial Virginia family. The documented Edinburgh cordiner is now represented by '''[[Glasgow-3938|Robert Glasgow]]'''.