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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
1759Verified surname passagepost-office listPossible match
William Glasgow
Cecil County, MarylandBirth unknown
Named among letters remaining at Philadelphia post office.
Place / address
Published 1759-08-09 · The Pennsylvania Gazette · p. 1
Faithful bounded excerpt of the inspected original. Supplemental context is separately preserved where needed; issue metadata supplied by Newspapers.com. Source reference: The Pennsylvania Gazette · 1759-08-09 · p. 1. Open for full size; inspect the original page for context.
What the notice says
William Glasgow, Cecil County, is listed among letters remaining in the Philadelphia post office.
Evidence and identity limits
Alphabetical postal-letter list, not a roster of residents or an advertisement. The printed long-s glyph in Glasſgow is the f-shaped character that can yield OCR Glafgow; the normalized surname reading is Glasgow. Cecil County immediately follows this entry. This is a distinct issue-page occurrence; no identity link to other Williams is inferred. Postal addressee, not proof of continuous residence, age, occupation, family, or identity across these issues. Identity review (6 October 2026): William Glasgow, Cecil County, Philadelphia letter list 1759. No WikiTree William Glasgow has any documented Maryland or Cecil County presence; the four previously listed Williams are Scottish/Irish baptism or tree profiles, one of which (Glasgow-3326) is documented in Larne in 1772 and 1783. No match above possible.
[b. c. 1735; d. c. 1829] · letter addressee, Cecil CountyWhy this candidate?
Only name + Cecil County. Glasgow-2426 (b. c.1735 'Moneymore', d. c.1829 USA; tree-sourced, no American record) is the only William with any American context, and that context is unproved. Glasgow-4101 (bap. 1733 Dundonald) and Glasgow-4120 (bap. 1723 Irvine) are baptism-only profiles: compatible but nothing points to Maryland. Glasgow-3326 (b. 1730 Kilwaughter) is unlikely: his profile documents him in Larne signing a 1772 petition and in a 1783 Larne will index. MSA's biography of Samuel Glasgow (SC 3520-17195) reports, from Cecil County probate, a William among the children of James Glasgow Sr. (d. 1784) and Ann of Cecil County - but those children were born from c.1749, so that William w
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