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Martha Jones (Glasgow) Scurlock

c. 1753 – 1818-07-06

Glasgow-452 · 1 mapped association

Maryland→Pittsboro, Chatham, North Carolina, United States
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Birth
c. 1753 · Maryland
Death
1818-07-06 · Pittsboro, Chatham, North Carolina, United States
Parents
James Patrick GlasgowunmarkedMary Jonesunmarked
Spouses
Benjamin SheppardJoseph Scurlock
Children
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Gender
Female
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  1. unknown http://files.usgwarchives.net/tx/bexar/military/alamo/alamo.txt
  2. unknown He was the brother of Mial Scurlock that died in the Alamo on March 6, 1836. 2) Mial Scurlock, Alamo Defender (Chatham County, North Carolina, on May 25, 1809 - Mar 6,1836) killed in the Alamo, Texas Colony
  3. unknown A source for this information is needed.
  4. derivative The Scurlocks, seekers of Freedom (https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/390499-redirection)
  5. unknown The Alamo heroes and their Revolutionary ancestors : bicentennial project, Alamo...by Dar of Texas (https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE1113506)
  6. derivative Ancestry.com. U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011
  7. tree_only WikiTree profile export for Glasgow-452
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Glasgow-452

Martha Jones (Glasgow) Scurlock

Updated 2025-07-27

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

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EventDateLocationStatus
birth—MarylandWikiTree profile field
death—Pittsboro, Chatham, North Carolina, United StatesWikiTree profile field
marriage1782-00-00Dobbs County, North Carolina, USAWikiTree relationship field
marriage1800-07-13Chatham, North Carolina, United StatesWikiTree relationship field

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RelationshipPersonWikiTree IDDates and places returned
ParentsReverend James Patrick GlasgowGlasgow-6351680-00-00 · Ireland · 1753-03-23 · Worcester County, Maryland
ParentsMary JonesJones-962101710-00-00 · 0000-00-00
ChildrenPherebySheppard-21381784-01-22 · Dobbs county, NC · 1804-07-31
ChildrenJamesSheppard-21251786-03-03 · Pitt County, North Carolina · 1841-07-08 · Hernando, DeSoto County, Mississippi
ChildrenBenjaminSheppard-21391791-06-18 · Dobbs county, NC · 1817-01-01
ChildrenWilliamSheppard-21401794-05-17 · Dobbs county, NC · 1795-00-00
ChildrenAbrahamSheppard-21411796-03-15 · 0000-00-00
ChildrenJosephScurlock-3301801-08-28 · Green County, North Carolina · 1845-02-00 · Desoto, Mississippi
ChildrenMilesScurlock-1551803-05-25 · Chatham, North Carolina, United States · 1836-03-06 · San Antonio, TX
ChildrenElizaScurlock-1541805-00-00 · Chatham County, North Carolina, United States · 1865-00-00 · Yalobusha, Leflore County, Mississippi, United States
ChildrenWilliamScurlock-111807-00-00 · Chatham, North Carolina, United States · 1885-01-21 · San Augustine, Sabine County, Texas, United States
ChildrenMialScurlock-1431809-05-25 · Chatham County, North Carolina, United States · 1836-03-06 · the Alamo, San Antonio, Bexar, Texas
ChildrenTimothyScurlock-1581812-00-00 · Chatham, North Carolina, United States · 1867-05-20 · Jackson, Tennessee, United States
SiblingsGov. James GlasgowGlasgow-6341735-00-00 · Maryland · 1819-11-17 · Tennessee
SpousesBenjaminSheppard-19381751-00-00 · Dobbs County, North Carolina Colony · 1798-10-01 · Glasgow County, North Carolina, United States · 1782-00-00 · Dobbs County, North Carolina, USA
SpousesJosephScurlock-1231782-00-00 · Pittsboro, Chatham, North Carolina · 1844-00-00 · Chatham, Washington, Mississippi, United States · 1800-07-13 · Chatham, North Carolina, United States

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  • Biography Martha Jones Glasgow was born about 1753, daughter of Col. James Glasgow (1740-1790). http://files.usgwarchives.net/tx/bexar/military/alamo/alamo.txt Parents were Rev. James Patrick Glasgow and Martha Jones daughter of Thomas and Mary Wilson Jones of Cecil county, Maryland. She is the sister of Gov. James Glasgow.
  • Marriage 1 Martha married Benjamin Sheppard (1751 – 1798) Martha died 6 of July 1818, Chatham Co., N.C.
  • The case below shows many family interactions but these excerpts from it show that 1. Martha was married to Benjamin at the time of his death; and 2. that she and her brother, James Glasgow, were the administratix and administrator of Benjamin's estate; and 3. that Martha married Joseph Scurlock.
  • http://www.speightfamily.net/data/n_63a.htm "From N.C. Supreme Court Original Cases, Case #79, SHEPPARD vs. GLASGOW, 1814
  • Your orators, JAMES GLASGOW SHEPPARD, BENJAMIN C.D.B. SHEPPARD, & ABRAM SHEPPARD, infants, by their guardian, the said James G. Sheppard, show that BENJAMIN SHEPPARD your orators father died intestate some time in or about the month of October 1798 possessed of a very large real & personal estate. That administration of his estate was granted to JAMES GLASGOW and MARTHA JONES SHEPPARD, his widow, who entered into bond with WILLIAM SPEIGHT & MARTIN G. SHEPPARD their securities for the faithful administration of the estate." and "Your orators further shew that the sd MARTHA administratrix intermarried with JOSEPH SCURLOCK & the said JAMES & JOSEPH & MARTHA adminstrators greatly mismanaged the estate by making improper sales thereof & by suffering judgments agst the estate when nothing was really due."
  • Marriage 2 She married (secondly) Joseph Scurlock 13 July 1800 in Greene County, North Carolina. Joseph Scurlock married Martha Jones (Glasgow), a widow of Col. Benjamin Sheppard, July 13, 1800, in Green County, North Carolina. Abstracts of North Carolina marriages *"Scurlock, Joseph of Chatham county to Mrs. Martha J. Sheppard of Greene county, Jly. 13, Greene county. R. R. Aug. 5, 1800
  • 1) William Scurlock (1807 - 1877) William Scurlock was an early settler and involved in the Texas Revolution. He was the brother of Mial Scurlock that died in the Alamo on March 6, 1836.
  • She passed away July 6, 1818 in Pittsboro, Chatham, North Carolina. NOTES A father's death date (Glasgow-635 died 23 Mar 1753) should not be more than nine months before one of his children's birth dates (Glasgow-452 born 1761)
  • Although this profile had at one time a birthdate in 1774, this is not possible, given her first marriage to Sheppard and her first child born in 1784.
  • She passed away in 1818. A source for this information is needed. Sources *The Scurlocks, seekers of Freedom (https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/390499-redirection)

Profile source citations

  1. http://files.usgwarchives.net/tx/bexar/military/alamo/alamo.txt source link 1
  2. Joseph Scurlock married Martha Jones (Glasgow), a widow of Col. Benjamin Sheppard, July 13, 1800, in Green County, North Carolina. Abstracts of North Carolina marriages *"Scurlock, Joseph of Chatham county to Mrs. Martha J. Sheppard of Greene county, Jly. 13, Greene county. R. R. Aug. 5, 1800 Shepard, Mrs. Martha J. of Greene county to Joseph Scurlock of Chatham county, Jly. 13, Greene county. R. R. Aug. 5, 1800" Children: 4 1) William Scurlock (1807 - 1877) William Scurlock was an early settler and involved in the Texas Revolution. He was the brother of Mial Scurlock that died in the Alamo on March 6, 1836. 2) Mial Scurlock, Alamo Defender (Chatham County, North Carolina, on May 25, 1809 - Mar 6,1836) killed in the Alamo, Texas Colony https://www.thealamo.org/remember/battle-and-revolution/defenders/mial-scurlock#fromDefendersList source link 1
  3. A source for this information is needed.
  4. The Scurlocks, seekers of Freedom (https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/390499-redirection) source link 1
  5. The Alamo heroes and their Revolutionary ancestors : bicentennial project, Alamo...by Dar of Texas (https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE1113506) source link 1
  6. Ancestry.com. U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011

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Biography
Martha Jones Glasgow was born about 1753, daughter of Col. James Glasgow (1740-1790). http://files.usgwarchives.net/tx/bexar/military/alamo/alamo.txt Parents were Rev. James Patrick Glasgow and Martha Jones daughter of Thomas and Mary Wilson Jones of Cecil county, Maryland. She is the sister of Gov. James Glasgow.

Marriage 1 
Martha married Benjamin Sheppard (1751 – 1798) Martha died 6 of July 1818, Chatham Co., N.C. 

The case below shows many family interactions but these excerpts from it show that 1. Martha was married to Benjamin at the time of his death; and 2. that she and her brother, James Glasgow, were the administratix and administrator of Benjamin's estate; and 3. that Martha married Joseph Scurlock.

*http://www.speightfamily.net/data/n_63a.htm
"From N.C. Supreme Court Original Cases, Case #79, SHEPPARD vs. 
GLASGOW, 1814

N.C., Greene County - Equity Docket, Oct. term 1814
JAMES G. SHEPPARD & Others vs JAMES GLASGOW & Others. Original Bill
1811.

Your orators, JAMES GLASGOW SHEPPARD, BENJAMIN C.D.B. SHEPPARD, &
ABRAM SHEPPARD, infants, by their guardian, the said James G. Sheppard,
show that BENJAMIN SHEPPARD your orators father died intestate some
time in or about the month of October 1798 possessed of a very large
real & personal estate. That administration of his estate was granted
to JAMES GLASGOW and MARTHA JONES SHEPPARD, his widow, who entered into
bond with WILLIAM SPEIGHT & MARTIN G. SHEPPARD their securities for the
faithful administration of the estate." 
and 
"Your orators further shew that the sd MARTHA administratrix 
intermarried with JOSEPH SCURLOCK & the said JAMES & JOSEPH & MARTHA
adminstrators greatly mismanaged the estate by making improper sales
thereof & by suffering judgments agst the estate when nothing was really
due."

Marriage 2 
She married (secondly) Joseph Scurlock 13 July 1800 in Greene County, North Carolina. Joseph Scurlock married Martha Jones (Glasgow), a widow of Col. Benjamin Sheppard, July 13, 1800, in Green County, North Carolina. 
Abstracts of North Carolina marriages
*"Scurlock, Joseph of Chatham county to Mrs. Martha J. Sheppard of Greene county, Jly. 13, Greene county. R. R. Aug. 5, 1800

Shepard, Mrs. Martha J. of Greene county to Joseph Scurlock of Chatham county, Jly. 13, Greene county. R. R. Aug. 5, 1800"

Children: 4 

1) William Scurlock (1807 - 1877) William Scurlock was an early settler and involved in the Texas Revolution. He was the brother of Mial Scurlock that died in the Alamo on March 6, 1836.

2) Mial Scurlock, Alamo Defender (Chatham County, North Carolina, on May 25, 1809 - Mar 6,1836) killed in the Alamo, Texas Colony https://www.thealamo.org/remember/battle-and-revolution/defenders/mial-scurlock#fromDefendersList 

She passed away July 6, 1818 in Pittsboro, Chatham, North Carolina.
NOTES
A father's death date (Glasgow-635 died 23 Mar 1753) should not be more than nine months before one of his children's birth dates (Glasgow-452 born 1761)

Although this profile had at one time a birthdate in 1774, this is not possible, given her first marriage to Sheppard and her first child born in 1784. 

 She passed away in 1818. A source for this information is needed. 
Sources
*The Scurlocks, seekers of Freedom (https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/390499-redirection)

* The Alamo heroes and their Revolutionary ancestors : bicentennial project, Alamo...by Dar of Texas (https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE1113506)

*Ancestry.com. U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011

*http://files.usgwarchives.net/tx/bexar/military/alamo/alamo.txt
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== Biography == 

Martha Jones Glasgow was born about 1753, daughter of Col. James Glasgow (1740-1790).  <ref name=Martha>http://files.usgwarchives.net/tx/bexar/military/alamo/alamo.txt</ref>Parents were Rev. James Patrick Glasgow and Martha Jones daughter of Thomas and Mary Wilson Jones of Cecil county, Maryland. She is the sister of Gov. James Glasgow.

'''Marriage 1''' <br>
Martha  married Benjamin Sheppard (1751 – 1798)  Martha died 6 of July 1818, Chatham Co., N.C. 

The case below shows many family interactions but these excerpts from it show that 1. Martha was married to Benjamin at the time of his death; and 2. that she and her brother, James Glasgow, were the administratix and administrator of Benjamin's estate; and 3. that Martha married Joseph Scurlock.

*http://www.speightfamily.net/data/n_63a.htm
"From N.C. Supreme Court Original Cases, Case #79, SHEPPARD vs. 
GLASGOW, 1814

N.C., Greene County - Equity Docket, Oct. term 1814
JAMES G. SHEPPARD & Others vs JAMES GLASGOW & Others. Original Bill
1811.

Your orators, JAMES GLASGOW SHEPPARD, BENJAMIN C.D.B. SHEPPARD, &
ABRAM SHEPPARD, infants, by their guardian, the said James G. Sheppard,
show that BENJAMIN SHEPPARD your orators father died intestate some
time in or about the month of October 1798 possessed of a very large
real & personal estate. That administration of his estate was granted
to JAMES GLASGOW and MARTHA JONES SHEPPARD, his widow, who entered into
bond with WILLIAM SPEIGHT & MARTIN G. SHEPPARD their securities for the
faithful administration of the estate."<br>
and<br>
"Your orators further shew that the sd MARTHA administratrix 
intermarried with JOSEPH SCURLOCK & the said JAMES & JOSEPH & MARTHA
adminstrators greatly mismanaged the estate by making improper sales
thereof & by suffering judgments agst the estate when nothing was really
due."

'''Marriage 2''' <br>
She married (secondly) Joseph Scurlock 13 July 1800 in Greene County, North Carolina.<ref name=Martha />  Joseph Scurlock married Martha Jones (Glasgow), a widow of Col. Benjamin Sheppard, July 13, 1800, in Green County, North  Carolina. 
Abstracts of North Carolina marriages
*"Scurlock, Joseph of Chatham county to Mrs. Martha J. Sheppard of Greene county, Jly. 13, Greene county. R. R. Aug. 5, 1800

Shepard, Mrs. Martha J. of Greene county to Joseph Scurlock of Chatham county, Jly. 13, Greene county. R. R. Aug. 5, 1800"

Children: 4 

1) William Scurlock (1807 - 1877) <ref name=Martha />William Scurlock was an early settler and involved in the Texas Revolution. He was the brother of Mial Scurlock that died in the Alamo on March 6, 1836.

2) Mial Scurlock, Alamo Defender (Chatham County, North Carolina, on May 25, 1809  - Mar 6,1836) killed in the Alamo, Texas Colony <ref name=Martha /><ref>https://www.thealamo.org/remember/battle-and-revolution/defenders/mial-scurlock#fromDefendersList</ref>

She passed away July 6, 1818 in Pittsboro, Chatham, North Carolina.

==== NOTES ====

A father's death date (Glasgow-635 died 23 Mar 1753) should not be more than nine months before one of his children's birth dates (Glasgow-452 born 1761)

Although this profile had at one time a birthdate in 1774, this is not possible, given her first marriage to Sheppard and her first child born in 1784.  

 She passed away in 1818.<ref>A source for this information is needed.</ref>

== Sources ==
<references />

*[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/390499-redirection The Scurlocks, seekers of Freedom]

* [https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE1113506 The Alamo heroes and their Revolutionary ancestors : bicentennial project, Alamo...by Dar of Texas]

*Ancestry.com. U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011

*http://files.usgwarchives.net/tx/bexar/military/alamo/alamo.txt
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