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Reviewed newspaper notices
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1 distinct notices · 1 retained pages
1760Verified surname passageland-sale noticePossible match
John Glasgow
Cecil County; planned Nottingham store (business context)Birth unknown
Signs a land vendue notice for William Graham’s creditors and plans to open a Nottingham store by the end of September.
Published 1760-08-14 · The Pennsylvania Gazette · p. 3
Bounded excerpt checked against the original on 4 October 2026; the issue heading is outside the crop. Source reference: The Pennsylvania Gazette · 1760-08-14 · p. 3. Open for full size; inspect the original page for context.
What the notice says
John Glasgow signs a Cecil County land vendue notice for William Graham’s creditors and plans a Nottingham store by the end of September.
Evidence and identity limits
Original inspected; candidates Glasgow-2870 and Glasgow-2871 remain unassigned. No Irish origin or family is stated. Identity review (6 October 2026): John Glasgow signs a 1760 vendue notice for William Graham's creditors (200-acre Susquehanna tract near Shepard's Ferry, Cecil County) and announces a store at Nottingham. The Chester County tax lists show John Glasgow as a West Nottingham freeman in 1760 and as storekeeper there in 1765 and 1767, with the same holding continuing to 1791 and passing to Hugh Glasgow in 1793: this is probably Glasgow-2871 (d. 1792), not the elder Glasgow-2870.
[b. c. 1738; d. 1792-04-03] · signer of creditors' vendue notice; prospective Nottingham storekeeperWhy this candidate?
Independent record chain: Chester County tax index - John Glasgow, West Nottingham, 1760 'Freeman' (the only John in Nottingham that year), 1762-1764 taxed, 1765 'Storekeeper' (50 acres), 1767 'Storekeeper' (50 acres), landholder 50 acres 1768-1786 and 80 acres 1787-1791; then Hugh Glasgow, West Nottingham, 1793-1799, 80 acres. The notice's intention to open a Nottingham store by end of September 1760 is fulfilled by the storekeeper entries; the holding series ends in 1791 and Glasgow-2871 died 3 Apr 1792 in Chester County; WikiTree and Gibson's History of York County make Hugh (b. 1769 Nottingham) his son, and Hugh takes up an 80-acre West Nottingham holding from 1793. Name + township + occ
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