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Reviewed newspaper notices
1 distinct notices from 1 retained pages, earliest first. Reprints of the same notice are merged; 1 pages have saved inline excerpts. Open a notice for its clipping, reading and profile assessment.
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1 distinct notices · 1 retained pages
1758Verified surname passagepost-office lettersPossible match
John Glasgow
Nottingham (post-office addressee)Birth unknown
Named as an addressee in letters remaining at Philadelphia post office.
Published 1758-01-12 · The Pennsylvania Gazette · p. 1
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What the notice says
John Glasgow, Nottingham, is an addressee in letters remaining at Philadelphia post office.
Evidence and identity limits
Postal-office and address context retained; an addressee is not proof of residence, letter collection, occupation, household or continued life. Nearby addressees and their localities are separate. The earlier Nottingham/Chester County/near-Oxford entries fit Glasgow-2870 as a probable candidate; Glasgow-2871 remains possible. This is a qualified regional documentary cluster, potentially more than one John. A postal list does not prove the addressee alive: the elder’s recorded May 1769 death does not absolutely exclude posthumous mail in 1771. No parent, spouse or child is proved by these notices. Identity review (6 October 2026): John Glasgow, Nottingham, Philadelphia letter list January 1758. No John Glasgow is on the Chester County tax lists before 1760 (the Nottingham Glasgows taxed in the 1750s are Samuel and James), so this addressee is either the young John who first appears as a West Nottingham freeman in 1760 (Glasgow-2871) or an untaxed elder; both Nottingham profiles stay possible.
[b. c. 1738; d. 1792-04-03] · letter addressee, NottinghamWhy this candidate?
Chester County tax index: John first appears in West Nottingham in 1760 as a 'Freeman' (single man), then householder 1762-1764, storekeeper 1765 and 1767, landholder to 1791; Hugh Glasgow then holds land in West Nottingham 1793-1799 (80 acres, as John did 1787-1791). That chain fits Glasgow-2871 (John, b. 1738, d. 3 Apr 1792 Chester County, father of Hugh Glasgow-2873). In 1758 that man was about 20, plausibly the addressee. Glasgow-2870 (b. 1722 Libberton, d. 23 May 1769 Nottingham per Find a Grave/family-Bible narrative) never appears as a taxed householder in Nottingham 1747-1764, which weakens the earlier 'probable' grade for him: the only basis was a shared place name and an age fit th
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