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Reviewed newspaper notices
1 distinct notices from 2 retained pages, earliest first. Reprints of the same notice are merged; 2 pages have saved inline excerpts. Open a notice for its clipping, reading and profile assessment.
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1 distinct notices · 2 retained pages
1754Verified surname passageshipping reportPrinted in 2 issuesStrong match
Robert Glasgow
Place not statedb. by c. 1736 adult estimate
Master of the snow John and Archibald, described as of Glasgow. · Reported arriving in distress on a Virginia-to-Glasgow passage.
Birth estimate / source
Adult estimate from ship master in 1754, assuming 18+; age not stated.
Occupation / trade
Published 1754-06-25 – 1754-06-27 · The Gloucester Journal · p. 2
Faithful bounded excerpt of the inspected original. Supplemental context is separately preserved where needed; issue metadata supplied by Newspapers.com. Source reference: The Gloucester Journal · 1754-06-25 · p. 2. Open for full size; inspect the original page for context.
What the notice says
Robert Glasgow, master of the snow John and Archibald, of Glasgow, is reported arriving in distress during a Virginia-to-Glasgow passage.
Evidence and identity limits
One distress report preserved in three issues, not three masters. Later reprints give St John’s, Antigua, 15 February. The passage describes gale damage, leakage and lightning; Glasgow is also the vessel’s designation/port, not the master’s birthplace. The preceding Swanton vessel’s provisions and urine story in the Pennsylvania page belongs to a different vessel. No family or link to the 1751 defendant established. Identity review (6 October 2026): One 1754 distress report (three printings) of Robert Glasgow, master of the snow John and Archibald of Glasgow, on a Virginia-to-Glasgow passage. WikiTree already has a documentary profile for exactly this shipmaster, Glasgow-2867, built on the Maryland Gazette printing of the same Antigua report; the notice adds no kin. Glasgow-2474 (Irvine shipmaster 1738) is a possible earlier/later identity of the same man (merge question), not a separate match.
[b. c. 1736 (estimated); d. after 1754] · master of the snow John and Archibald, of GlasgowWhy this candidate?
Glasgow-2867 is a profile whose biography is specifically 'Robert Glasgow was master of the snow John and Archibald, a vessel described in 1754 as of Glasgow', citing The Maryland Gazette no. 466 (11 Apr 1754) reprint of the St John's, Antigua, 15 Feb 1754 report and the Dublin Gazette reprint - the same report as these Pennsylvania Gazette/Gloucester Journal/Berrow's printings (same vessel, master, voyage Virginia-Glasgow, gale of 24 Jan 1754, lightning, Antigua). Name + unique vessel command + same dated event = record-level identity. Caveat: 2867's parents (William Glasgow-1026 and Ann McCook-217, status code 10, not confident) and 'death 1754 (after)' are not supported by this or any ins
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