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James Glasgow, North Carolina office, postal and land-warrant records to 1799

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James Glasgow is named with Kingston Lodge No.3 and as Grand Secretary among elected and installed North Carolina Grand Lodge officers, at a Tarborough convention on 9–11 December 1787. Newbern report dated 20 December 1787, printed 7 January 1788. W. is the roster’s Masonic style, not an inferred first-name initial. Membership and office are reported; no family is supplied. Glasgow-634 is a probable candidate for the explicit North Carolina Secretary of State records, matching the existing sourced public study. The Masonic officer, Dobbs candidate, Contentney and Raleigh addressee records form a compatible regional cluster; cross-record identity is inferred and remains qualified. Name, titles and locality do not prove spouse, parents or children.[1]

James Glasgow, Contentney, is an addressee in letters remaining at Newbern post office, notice dated 19 March 1788. Original place spelling Contentney retained. The letters would be returned if not collected by 5 April; no proof of collection, family or permanent residence. Contentney is a geographic qualifier, not another person. Glasgow-634 is a probable candidate for the explicit North Carolina Secretary of State records, matching the existing sourced public study. The Masonic officer, Dobbs candidate, Contentney and Raleigh addressee records form a compatible regional cluster; cross-record identity is inferred and remains qualified. Name, titles and locality do not prove spouse, parents or children.[2]

A Newbern report dated 16 April 1788 lists James Glasgow among Dobbs County candidates supposed to favor the federal constitution for the Hillsborough convention. Candidate and supposed political stance are the report’s language. No election victory is proved. Four issues reprint the same report; they are one event, not independent confirmations. Glasgow-634 is a probable candidate for the explicit North Carolina Secretary of State records, matching the existing sourced public study. The Masonic officer, Dobbs candidate, Contentney and Raleigh addressee records form a compatible regional cluster; cross-record identity is inferred and remains qualified. Name, titles and locality do not prove spouse, parents or children.[3][4][5][6]

James Glasgow, Esq., is reported chosen Secretary of State of North Carolina. The preceding councillors’ election is dated Tuesday the 11 th ultimo; the separate secretary sentence does not explicitly assign that day to him. Issue date is 4 December 1788. No exact appointment day or household is inferred. Glasgow-634 is a probable candidate for the explicit North Carolina Secretary of State records, matching the existing sourced public study. The Masonic officer, Dobbs candidate, Contentney and Raleigh addressee records form a compatible regional cluster; cross-record identity is inferred and remains qualified. Name, titles and locality do not prove spouse, parents or children.[7]

A Fayetteville Grand Lodge report names James Glasgow, Esq., as elected Grand Senior Warden for the ensuing year. The report says the lodge met on the 18 th ultimo; its precise meeting date needs the complete dated report header or minutes. The two papers reprint one appointment report, not independent elections. Masonic role is distinct from Secretary of State. Glasgow-634 is a probable candidate for the explicit North Carolina Secretary of State records, matching the existing sourced public study. The Masonic officer, Dobbs candidate, Contentney and Raleigh addressee records form a compatible regional cluster; cross-record identity is inferred and remains qualified. Name, titles and locality do not prove spouse, parents or children.[8][9]

An Edenton report dated 17 December 1789 names James Glasgow as Deputy Grand Master among North Carolina Grand Lodge officers appointed for the ensuing year. Contemporary office report; actual appointment minutes and cross-record identity are not independently checked. The newspaper report date is not an exact appointment day. Glasgow-634 is a probable candidate for the explicit North Carolina Secretary of State records, matching the existing sourced public study. The Masonic officer, Dobbs candidate, Contentney and Raleigh addressee records form a compatible regional cluster; cross-record identity is inferred and remains qualified. Name, titles and locality do not prove spouse, parents or children.[10]

A Newbern report dated 31 December names the Honorable James Glasgow as appointed Secretary of State by the North Carolina legislature. Two issues dated 25 January 1792 reprint the same report. The reported Thursday last is not converted into an exact appointment date; year context suggests the preceding December. No family is stated. Provider collection label retained; contemporary masthead title has not been independently checked. Glasgow-634 is a probable candidate for the explicit North Carolina Secretary of State records, matching the existing sourced public study. The Masonic officer, Dobbs candidate, Contentney and Raleigh addressee records form a compatible regional cluster; cross-record identity is inferred and remains qualified. Name, titles and locality do not prove spouse, parents or children.[11][12]

Hon. James Glasgow, Raleigh, is an addressee in a post-office letters list dated 1 October 1795. Issue date 26 October 1795 differs from the list’s 1 October dateline. Thomas Banks is a separate addressee; this is not Thomas Glasgow. Raleigh is a geographic qualifier; no family or letter collection is proved. Glasgow-634 is a probable candidate for the explicit North Carolina Secretary of State records, matching the existing sourced public study. The Masonic officer, Dobbs candidate, Contentney and Raleigh addressee records form a compatible regional cluster; cross-record identity is inferred and remains qualified. Name, titles and locality do not prove spouse, parents or children.[13][14]

James Glasgow, Fayetteville, is an addressee in letters remaining at Fayetteville post office, list dated 5 November 1793. Post-office heading and entry saved separately. Fayetteville is the printed address qualifier; neither collection, permanent residence, age, household nor continued life is established.[15]

James Glasgow, Esq., is an addressee in a Raleigh post-office letters list headed 1 January 1795, as printed in 1796 issues. Original heading and personal entry visually checked; long-s normalized to Glasgow. List date differs from issue date; postal title or address does not establish occupation, family, collection or that the addressee was still alive. All three saved headings actually print 1795; this anomalous year is retained, not silently corrected to 1796.[16][17][18]

Col. James Glasgow, at Raleigh, is an addressee in letters remaining at Raleigh post office, list dated 1 April 1796. Original heading and personal entry visually checked; long-s normalized to Glasgow. List date differs from issue date; postal title or address does not establish occupation, family, collection or that the addressee was still alive.[19]

Hon. James Glasgow is an addressee in letters remaining at Raleigh post office, list dated 1 July 1796. Original heading and personal entry visually checked; long-s normalized to Glasgow. List date differs from issue date; postal title or address does not establish occupation, family, collection or that the addressee was still alive.[20]

James Glasgow, Muscadine Mathews and John Gray Blount are named signatories for holders of western land entries in a petition dated Raleigh, 23 December 1796. Two newspapers reprint one petition. The excerpt states land claims, a request for justice and conditional proposals concerning land possession; these are petitioners’ claims, not a judicial finding, a proved land grant to James individually or a family link. Provider collection title retained; contemporary masthead title not independently verified.[21][22]

Wm. White of Lenoir is reported elected North Carolina Secretary of State in the room of James Glasgow, resigned. Parallel reports give Newbern, 8 December, and Halifax, 10 December 1798 datelines. They report one replacement/resignation event, not its precise day or cause. Provider collection titles retained where contemporary mastheads have not been independently verified.[23][24]

A University notice dated 10 May 1799 names Mr. James Glasgow, Newbern, among trustees who would form the visitation committee for the planned 4 July examination. Printed trustee and planned committee roster, not proof of attendance, completion of the examination, kinship or individual identity beyond the regional comparison.[25]

A commissioners’ report names James Glasgow, Esq., the late Secretary, while attributing irregular military land warrants to him. Reported commissioners’ allegations and conclusions, not an adjudicated conviction. The bounded paragraph introduces the attributed practices; later continuation gives further allegations. No family connection is stated.[26][27][28]

The Raleigh Minerva continuation names James Glasgow in allegations about a warrant and assignment involving soldier James Harrison and witness Samuel Holladay, and grants issued by the Secretary to himself. Continuation of the commissioners’ report: these are attributed allegations, including a proposed need for Holladay’s testimony, not independent evidence of guilt or an adjudicated conviction. Harrison and Holladay are distinct people; county of Glasgow is a place. Only the clean left column is preserved here.[29]

James Glasgow, Esq., 4, is an addressee in a Raleigh post-office letters list headed April 1, reprinted in April–May 1797 issues. Three issues repeat one list. The marker 4 is preserved without interpreting it as age or independently proving a letter count. The heading prints no year in the bounded excerpt; 1797 is the issue context. Neither residence, collection, household nor continued life is proved.[30][31][32]

An Edenton proclamation dated February 1 reports that a chest belonging to James Glasgow, containing Secretary of State’s office papers, was thrown from a State-House window during a burglary attempt; the thieves had no time to carry it away. Issue date is 1 February 1798. Wm. Tyrrel’s separate trunk is reported stolen; James’s chest was not carried off. Papers had been deposited for an enquiry into suspected military land-warrant fraud. Property ownership and the proclamation do not establish James’s guilt or by themselves prove his office.[33]

A printed response to warrant accusations reproduces a conveyance dated 20 July 1785, purporting to transfer Francis Harrison’s claimed heir-at-law rights in Stephen and James Harrison’s military lands to James Glasgow, witnessed by Samuel Holladay. The document is reproduced as part of a response to allegations: this newspaper extract does not authenticate a signature, title or completed transfer. Francis claims Harrison kinship; it is not Glasgow kinship. Publication in December 1799 differs from the printed deed date 1785. The two Register 31 December URLs are archive copies of the same page. The supplementary reply passage attributes unsigned warrants to hurried business and denies fraudulent intention; this is his reported explanation, not a finding that the accusations were disproved.[34][35][36]

The Register says it has seen a reply by Mr. Glasgow to the land-fraud charges and plans to print it in a future paper. This paragraph announces a reply without printing its text. Forename is not stated in this bounded notice; attribution to James follows the same issue’s late-Secretary report and remains contextual. It establishes neither guilt nor exoneration.[37]

A committee report says that among those it considered offenders in the land-warrant matter, none had been arrested except James Glasgow. This is the committee’s reported statement, not a conviction or an exact arrest date. Its language about offenders is attributed, not adopted as an independently proved description.[38]

A legislative debate reports a proposed amendment to include James Glasgow’s case if it should be thought proper to bring him to trial. Conditional proposed trial provision, not proof that a trial occurred, that an amendment became law or that guilt was adjudicated.[39]

James Glasgow is an addressee in letters remaining at Newbern post office, list headed 1 July 1794. Two issues reprint one list. The complete heading and surname entry are saved; no identity, residence, collection, occupation, family or continued life is proved.[40][41]

James Glasgow, Sec’ry, signs by Governor Richard Caswell’s command a North Carolina proclamation dated Newbern 10 January 1778 concerning the snow Diamond’s cargo after its wreck near Ocracoke Bar. Signed official secretary context supports probable correspondence with Glasgow-634’s North Carolina office study; no family or personal life date is established. The 10 Januarycargo-taking accusation is the proclamation’s attributed claim, not a conviction or a charge against Glasgow. The 14 January proclamation begins on the preceding page and continues onpage 3.[42]

James Glasgow, Sec’ry, signs by Governor Richard Caswell’s command a North Carolina proclamation dated Newbern 14 January 1778 announcing the qualification of superior-court clerks. Signed official secretary context supports probable correspondence with Glasgow-634’s North Carolina office study; no family or personal life date is established. The 10 Januarycargo-taking accusation is the proclamation’s attributed claim, not a conviction or a charge against Glasgow. The 14 January proclamation begins on the preceding page and continues onpage 3.[43]

A Halifax, North Carolina proclamation dated 21 January, printed 8 February 1798, names James Glasgow, Esq., as owner of a chest containing papers appertaining to the Secretary of State’s office; it reports thieves threw it into the yard and left it unopened. Original pixels verify the personal name despite quoted viewer search returning No matches. The chest was reportedly deposited in the Comptroller’s office; a separate stolen trunk is attributed to William Tyrell. Claims about fraud/forgery evidence are the proclamation’s account, not an adjudicated finding. The thieves are not James Glasgow.[44]

Research Notes

Glasgow-634 is a probable candidate for the explicit North Carolina Secretary of State records, matching the existing sourced public study. The Masonic officer, Dobbs candidate, Contentney and Raleigh addressee records form a compatible regional cluster; cross-record identity is inferred and remains qualified. Name, titles and locality do not prove spouse, parents or children. The 1798 former-secretary resignation report and 1799 report naming the late Secretary strongly fit that office comparison. Trustee and postal records remain compatible, without a distinctive identity bridge. The warrant allegations are attributed to the commissioners, not presented as a conviction. The published response and reproduced conveyance are retained alongside the accusations. The committee’s arrest claim and conditional trial debate are not convictions; no reply establishes exoneration by itself.

Bounded profile JSON and current public dossier/study checked; uncertain c. 1735 Maryland birth and recorded 1819 Tennessee death allow these acts. No exact birth date is inferred.

Glasgow-634’s current source field says clerk; the separate public study identifies North Carolina Secretary of State. That existing study is comparison context, not a fresh reading of all its underlying sources.

Four Dobbs reprints and two pairs of office reports are grouped by reported event. Candidate is not a winner; different Masonic offices are preserved as separate reports.

Regional consolidation is provisional; this is not a proved household and does not identify similarly named James men in Lancaster, Charlestown or London.

Raleigh letter lists preserve their own datelines; three 1796 issues print a heading year of 1795, retained as printed. Postal addressees need not still be alive.

The two 1797 petition reprints are one statement, not two independent land claims. A 1799 planned trustee visitation does not prove attendance.

Register 24/31 December paired URLs include duplicate archive scans; each source URL remains linked, while identical passages are consolidated.

The Edenton proclamation distinguishes Tyrrel’s stolen trunk from Glasgow’s chest, which thieves did not carry off.

Glasgow-634: Existing sourced North Carolina Secretary of State study matches the explicit state-office reports; postal, election and Masonic contexts are compatible without an individual bridge.

Compare original state appointment minutes, Grand Lodge membership/office records and Dobbs election returns with Glasgow-634’s own identifying records; identify postal addresses through land and tax records. Check the original resignation/appointment minutes, University trustee minutes and full commissioners’ report and subsequent court record before asserting an exact resignation date, attendance or conviction.

Sources

    1. Identity review — 6 October 2026

No compatible WikiTree profile after a duplicate search; kept on **HOLD**.

WikiTree searchPerson for Muscadine Mathews and Musendine Matthews returned no profiles. He is a non-Glasgow associate with no stated kinship, so no draft is recommended for this lane.

- [The North American, 1797-02-18, p.3](https://www.newspapers.com/image/467046163/): A petition dated Raleigh, 23 December 1796, by holders of western land entries is signed for them by James Glasgow, Muscadine Mathews and John Gray Blount. A US Senate committee report of March 1797 refers to 'the petition of J. Glasgow and others, relative to lands entered in the office of John Armstrong', which identifies the James Glasgow signer as Glasgow-634 (probable). The co-signers are not kin.

Searches: As group 604128613: WikiTree searchPerson for James Glasgow/Glasco/Glascoe/Glascow (1700–1780); wt.py profile/local Glasgow-634; NCpedia (DNCB), Wikipedia, UNCA Speculation Lands biography; archive.org full texts of Battle's History of UNC vol. 1 and the 1889 UNC catalogue grepped for Glasgow. WikiTree searchPerson: John Blount (1740–1760; Blount-181 found), Muscadine Mathews, Musendine Matthews, Muscoe Mathews (none). UNCA bibliography entry for the US Senate report of 1 March 1797.

Source references

  1. The Columbian Herald, or Independent Courier of North-America, 1788-01-07, p.2.
  2. The State Gazette of North-Carolina, 1788-03-27, p.3.
  3. Independent Gazetteer, 1788-05-13, p.2.
  4. Poulson's American Daily Advertiser, 1788-05-12, p.2.
  5. The Carlisle Gazette, and the Western Repository of Knowledge, 1788-05-21, p.3.
  6. Pittsburgh Weekly Gazette, 1788-06-07, p.2.
  7. The State Gazette of North-Carolina, 1788-12-04, p.3.
  8. The Independent Gazetteer, 1788-12-23, p.2.
  9. Poulson's American Daily Advertiser, 1788-12-24, p.3.
  10. The State Gazette of North-Carolina, 1789-12-17, p.3.
  11. The North American, 1792-01-25, p.1.
  12. The Pennsylvania Herald, and York General Advertiser, 1792-01-25, p.2.
  13. The North-Carolina Journal, 1795-10-26, p.4.
  14. The North-Carolina Journal, 1795-11-02, p.4.
  15. The Encyclopedian Instructor, 1793-11-19, p.1.
  16. The North-Carolina Journal, 1796-01-11, p.3.
  17. The North-Carolina Journal, 1796-01-25, p.4.
  18. The North-Carolina Journal, 1796-02-01, p.4.
  19. The North-Carolina Journal, 1796-05-16, p.4.
  20. The North-Carolina Journal, 1796-07-25, p.3.
  21. The North American, 1797-02-18, p.3.
  22. The Washington Gazette, 1797-03-04, p.3.
  23. North American, 1798-12-24, p.3.
  24. Newbern Gazette, 1798-12-08, p.3.
  25. North-Carolina Gazette and Wilmington Weekly Post-Boy, 1799-06-13, p.2.
  26. Raleigh Minerva, 1799-12-17, p.2.
  27. Weekly Raleigh Register, 1799-12-24, p.4.
  28. Weekly Raleigh Register, 1799-12-24, p.4.
  29. Raleigh Minerva, 1799-12-17, p.3.
  30. North-Carolina Journal, 1797-04-17, p.3.
  31. North-Carolina Journal, 1797-04-24, p.3.
  32. North-Carolina Journal, 1797-05-08, p.4.
  33. State Gazette of North Carolina, 1798-02-01, p.3.
  34. Raleigh Minerva, 1799-12-24, p.4.
  35. Weekly Raleigh Register, 1799-12-31, p.4.
  36. Weekly Raleigh Register, 1799-12-31, p.4.
  37. Weekly Raleigh Register, 1799-12-24, p.3.
  38. Raleigh Minerva, 1799-12-31, p.4.
  39. Weekly Raleigh Register, 1799-12-31, p.1.
  40. The North Carolina Gazette, or, Impartial Intelligencer, and Weekly General Advertiser, 1794-07-12, p.1.
  41. The North Carolina Gazette, or, Impartial Intelligencer, and Weekly General Advertiser, 1794-08-02, p.4.
  42. The North-Carolina Weekly Gazette, 1778-01-16, p.2.
  43. The North-Carolina Weekly Gazette, 1778-01-16, p.3.
  44. The North American, 1798-02-08, p.2.
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