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Nancy Annie (Glasgow) McMinn

1771-04-22 – 1857-06-27

Glasgow-370 · 1 mapped association

Dobbs, North Carolina→Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States
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Identity & family

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1Mapped records
4Close relations
3Evidence items
0Candidate leads
Birth
1771-04-22 · Dobbs, North Carolina
Death
1857-06-27 · Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States
Parents
James GlasgowunmarkedPhereby (Sheppard) Glasgowunmarked
Spouses
Joseph McMinnWilloughby Williams
Children
Not recorded
Gender
Female
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Glasgow-370
Research clusters
Worldwide One-Tree profile leads
Mapped descendants
0

Comparison context

These child positions and checks are the subject details used to rank possible parents below.

Naming sequence used by the parentage model

Paternal grandfather positionNot identifiable from dated child profiles
Maternal grandfather positionNot identifiable from dated child profiles
Maternal grandmother positionNot identifiable from dated child profiles
Paternal grandmother positionNot identifiable from dated child profiles

Known-position checks: 0 support · 0 conflict. Ordinals retain unnamed children and recognise reused names.

Estimate and relationship notes
  • WikiTree marks this person as having children, but no named child profile is recoverable from this export.

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Potential parents or duplicates

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No named children are recoverable, so child-naming analysis cannot be run.

How parent leads are calculated

Automated leads use birth surnames—not married surnames—as parental eligibility, role-specific biological age limits, bounded and approximate-date uncertainty, household chronology, specific time-aware localities, mapped distance, tenancy succession, migration destinations and sex-aware Scottish naming positions across generations. People already attached as the subject's parents stay in the identity summary and are excluded from this alternative-candidate list, regardless of relationship confidence. The main calibration uses clues available on disconnected profiles; existing parent and sibling links are retained as comparison context rather than treated as transferable evidence. Common ordered names and grandparent-to-child echoes receive a small non-zero weight, so a John or James match can support several independent criteria without producing a lead alone. Rare names, repeated bearers and bundles across otherwise distinct branches receive substantially more weight according to catalogue frequency. An exact migration place is weighted by its rarity and repetition across both branches; a shared destination country is worth only one point. Extra weight is added only when at least three independent clue types converge: naming, locality, specific migration, household chronology or collateral networks. Sparse profiles retain a clearly labelled chronology-only fallback instead of disappearing. Countries, states, counties and research clusters do not count as a shared locality, and fallback, broad representative or kin-inferred coordinates are excluded from distance scoring. Shared descendant profiles are removed before branch-name comparison. A candidate already recorded as a parent-in-law is excluded. A confident or independently supported parent is treated as settled; uncertain and unassessed attachments remain open to alternative comparison. A different linked parent, an uncle/aunt or grandparent path, and a matching existing child profile prevent an alternative from being classified as a strong direct-parent lead until the underlying tree conflict or duplicate is resolved. Familiar forms such as Bessie are normalised. Surname remains an eligibility filter worth zero points.

Naming customs, shared farms and occupations are circumstantial. Children, spouses and collateral relatives may be missing, and tree-derived family networks are not independent evidence. Scores rank research leads; they do not prove parentage.

No sufficiently similar same-name person is currently indexed.

How duplicate leads are calculated

Dates are eligibility gates, not merely deductions: chronologically impossible people are excluded. Dates, places, spouses, parent certainty and children's profiles and names are then compared. A high score is a prompt to inspect records, not a merge recommendation.

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Life and record timelineChronological mapped occurrences and their underlying sources.1 record
b. 1771

Profile-stated birthplace: Dobbs, North Carolina

Dobbs, North Carolina

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WikiTree profile export for Glasgow-370

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Precision: Country-centre fallback for profile locality

Evidence assessmentWhat is supported, uncertain or disputed in the current case model.8 claims
2Unknown
1Tree Only

Documented or strongly supported

No claims in this category have been formally assessed.

Working hypotheses and conflicts

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Research questionsOpen problems, missing bridges and the next records to inspect.0 open

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Sources and provenanceStructured citations and source-quality classifications.3 sources

Source or provenance: quality describes the record layer, not every conclusion drawn from it.

  1. unknown Nancy Wooten Walker, "Out of a Clear Blue Sky, Tennessee First Ladies and Their Husbands", Cleveland, Tennessee.
  2. unknown https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/mcminn/831/
  3. tree_only WikiTree profile export for Glasgow-370
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WikiTree profile information

Glasgow-370

Nancy Annie (Glasgow) McMinn

Updated 2025-07-29

Dataset: ONT_Glasco_2026-08-18T16_05.json · generated 2026-08-20

Machine-readable dossier

WikiTree biography, citations and relationship snapshot

Glasgow-370 was captured 2026-08-07T09:54:35+00:00; WikiTree profile revision 2025-07-29.

Profile location claims

EventDateLocationStatus
birth—Dobbs, North CarolinaWikiTree profile field
death—Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United StatesWikiTree profile field
marriage1786-01-01Snow Hill, Greene, North Carolina, United StatesWikiTree relationship field
marriage1816-05-04Sullivan County, Tennessee, United StatesWikiTree relationship field

Immediate relationship snapshot

RelationshipPersonWikiTree IDDates and places returned
ParentsGov. James GlasgowGlasgow-6341735-00-00 · Maryland · 1819-11-17 · Tennessee
ParentsPhereby GlasgowSheppard-21421748-00-00 · 1800-00-00 · Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States
ChildrenWilloughbyWilliams-1338321798-06-14 · Snow Hill, Greene, North Carolina, United States · 1882-12-08 · Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States
SiblingsElizabeth MartinGlasgow-20551772-05-20 · Greene, Province of North Carolina · 1847-04-18 · Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States
SiblingsJames GlasgowGlasgow-24921776-00-00 · North Carolina, United States · 1850-09-00 · Smith, Tennessee, United States
SiblingsFerreba ReynoldsGlasgow-29931790-00-00 · 1880-00-00
SpousesWilloughbyWilliams-1338311756-00-00 · North Carolina, United States · 1802-06-06 · Rutledge, Grainger, Tennessee, United States · 1786-01-01 · Snow Hill, Greene, North Carolina, United States
SpousesJosephMcMinn-261758-06-22 · West Marlborough Township, Chester, Pennsylvania · 1824-10-17 · Cherokee Agency Headquarters, Calhoun, McMinn County, Tennessee · 1816-05-04 · Sullivan County, Tennessee, United States

Record-bearing passages

  • Biography Source for this information: The RW Pension application of Willoughby WILLIAMS (fn122NC),Davidson County, TN. Transcribed by Will Graves.
  • In March 1848, Nancy MCMINN appeared before the court of Davidson Co., TN to make a declaration in order to obtain pension benefits. Nancy made application as the widow of Willoughby WILLIAMS, and officer in the RW. She stated that her husband, Willoughby WILLIAMS, had entered the service in Dobbs Co., NC. Abram SHEPPARD was his COl, and George WASHINGTON his Gen. She stated that Col. James GLASSCO, the Secretary of the State of NC, was her father and had served with Willoughby WILLIAMS in the RW. She md. WILLIAMS after the war on 1 Jan 1786.
  • Her husband, Willoughby WILLIAMS, died 6 June 1802 during their move from Greene Co., NC to the State of TN. They had four chldren. Two were J.G. and Willoughby WILLIAMS. Their son, Willoughby WILLIAMS md. Nancy GLASSCO whose 6th child, also a Willoughby WIlliams, b. June 14, 1798 was living in Nashville, TN in 1851.

  • Widow Nancy GLASSCO WILLIAMS md. Joseph MCMINN, Esq. in August of 1816. Nancy MCMINN died 27 Jun 1857. Joseph died 17 Nov 1824. Joseph had served as Governor of Tennessee from 1815 to 1821. Sources

    • Nancy Wooten Walker, "Out of a Clear Blue Sky, Tennessee First Ladies and Their Husbands", Cleveland, Tennessee.

Profile source citations

  1. Nancy Wooten Walker, "Out of a Clear Blue Sky, Tennessee First Ladies and Their Husbands", Cleveland, Tennessee.
  2. https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/mcminn/831/ source link 1
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Biography
Source for this information: The RW Pension application of Willoughby WILLIAMS (fn122NC),Davidson County, TN. Transcribed by Will Graves.

In March 1848, Nancy MCMINN appeared before the court of Davidson Co., TN to make a declaration in order to obtain pension benefits. Nancy made application as the widow of Willoughby WILLIAMS, and officer in the RW. She stated that her husband, Willoughby WILLIAMS, had entered the service in Dobbs Co., NC. Abram SHEPPARD was his COl, and George WASHINGTON his Gen. She stated that Col. James GLASSCO, the Secretary of the State of NC, was her father and had served with Willoughby WILLIAMS in the RW. She md. WILLIAMS after the war on 1 Jan 1786.

Her husband, Willoughby WILLIAMS, died 6 June 1802 during their move from Greene Co., NC to the State of TN. They had four chldren. Two were J.G. and Willoughby WILLIAMS. Their son, Willoughby WILLIAMS md. Nancy GLASSCO whose 6th child, also a Willoughby WIlliams, b. June 14, 1798 was living in Nashville, TN in 1851.

Widow Nancy GLASSCO WILLIAMS md. Joseph MCMINN, Esq. in August of 1816. Nancy MCMINN died 27 Jun 1857. Joseph died 17 Nov 1824. Joseph had served as Governor of Tennessee from 1815 to 1821.
Sources
* Nancy Wooten Walker, "Out of a Clear Blue Sky, Tennessee First Ladies and Their Husbands", Cleveland, Tennessee.

*https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/mcminn/831/
Raw WikiTree biography markup
== Biography ==

Source for this information: The RW Pension application of Willoughby WILLIAMS (fn122NC),Davidson County, TN. Transcribed by Will Graves.

In March 1848, Nancy MCMINN appeared before the court of Davidson Co., TN to make a declaration in order to obtain pension benefits. Nancy made application as the widow of Willoughby WILLIAMS, and officer in the RW. She stated that her husband, Willoughby WILLIAMS, had entered the service in Dobbs Co., NC. Abram SHEPPARD was his COl, and George WASHINGTON his Gen. She stated that Col. James GLASSCO, the Secretary of the State of NC, was her father and had served with Willoughby WILLIAMS in the RW. She md. WILLIAMS after the war on 1 Jan 1786.

Her husband, Willoughby WILLIAMS, died 6 June 1802 during their move from Greene Co., NC to the State of TN. They had four chldren. Two were J.G. and Willoughby WILLIAMS. Their son, Willoughby WILLIAMS md. Nancy GLASSCO whose 6th child, also a Willoughby WIlliams, b. June 14, 1798 was living in Nashville, TN in 1851.

Widow Nancy GLASSCO WILLIAMS md. Joseph MCMINN, Esq. in August of 1816. Nancy MCMINN died 27 Jun 1857. Joseph died 17 Nov 1824. Joseph had served as Governor of Tennessee from 1815 to 1821.




== Sources ==
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* Nancy Wooten Walker, "Out of a Clear Blue Sky, Tennessee First Ladies and Their Husbands", Cleveland, Tennessee.

*https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/mcminn/831/