Reported events, notices, advertisements and letters. OCR matches need visual checking; place names, vessels and matches to other surnames are excluded from Glasgow surname evidence.
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Reviewed newspaper notices
3 distinct notices from 3 retained pages, earliest first. Reprints of the same notice are merged; 3 pages have saved inline excerpts. Open a notice for its clipping, reading and profile assessment.
How to read these notices
Cards lead with the person named in the notice; profile candidates are assessed separately. Birth cutoffs labelled “by c.” are estimates, usually assuming an adult professional was at least 18; open the birth note for the basis. Event groups are broad navigation aids built from each notice’s record type. A relationship filter identifies family wording in the notice, not a proved match to a WikiTree family.
listed among letters remaining at the Philadelphia post office in October 1765
Published 1765-10-10 · The Pennsylvania Gazette · p. 4
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 · 1765-10-10 · p. 4. Open for full size; inspect the original page for context.Additional excerpts from this issue — 1Faithful bounded excerpt of the inspected original. Supplemental context is separately preserved where needed; issue metadata supplied by Newspapers.com. Original excerpt page ↗
What the notice says
William Glasgow is listed among letters remaining in the Philadelphia post office in October 1765.
Evidence and identity limits
Alphabetical postal-letter list; page 4 retains the list-purpose heading and G-section context. The printed long-s glyph in Glasſgow is f-shaped and can yield OCR Glafgow; normalized surname reading Glasgow. No locality or identity beyond the immediate printed sequence is assigned to William. Postal addressee, not proof of continuous residence, age, occupation, family, or identity across these issues. Identity review (6 October 2026): William Glasgow, Philadelphia letter list October 1765, no place given. Name only; unidentifiable.
1765Verified surname passagepost-office listPossible match
John Glasgow
Nottingham Township, Chester County, PennsylvaniaBirth unknown
Named as an addressee in letters remaining at Chester post office.
Place / address
Published 1765-10-17 · The Pennsylvania Journal, or, Weekly Advertiser · p. 1
Faithful bounded original viewer excerpt; provider search highlighting retained where visible. No reconstructed text. Issue metadata supplied by Newspapers.com. Source reference: The Pennsylvania Journal, or, Weekly Advertiser · 1765-10-17 · p. 1. Open for full size; inspect the original page for context.
What the notice says
John Glasgow, in Nottingham Township, Chester County, is an addressee in letters remaining at Chester 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 Township, Chester County, Chester post-office list October 1765. In 1765 the Chester County tax list has two Johns in West Nottingham: the storekeeper-landholder (probably Glasgow-2871) and an inmate; the merchant is the likelier addressee, but only possible.
[b. c. 1738; d. 1792-04-03] · letter addressee, Nottingham Township, Chester CountyWhy this candidate?
1765 Chester County tax index: John Glascow, West Nottingham, 50 acres, Storekeeper; and John Glasco, West Nottingham, Inmate. The storekeeper is probably Glasgow-2871 (see group 39404812: freeman 1760, storekeeper 1765/1767, holding to 1791, succeeded by Hugh 1793). A storekeeper is the likelier recipient of mail, but the inmate John is a real simultaneous namesake in the same township, so possible only. Glasgow-2870 (d. 1769) is not visible as a Nottingham taxpayer at any date and is downgraded to possible for want of any distinguishing evidence.
1765Verified surname passagepost-office listPossible match
John Glasgow
NottinghamBirth unknown
Named as an addressee in letters remaining at Chester post office.
Published 1765-11-28 · The Pennsylvania Gazette · p. 4
Faithful bounded original viewer excerpt; provider search highlighting retained where visible. No reconstructed text. Issue metadata supplied by Newspapers.com. Source reference: The Pennsylvania Gazette · 1765-11-28 · p. 4. Open for full size; inspect the original page for context.
What the notice says
John Glasgow, Nottingham, is an addressee in letters remaining at Chester 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, Chester post-office list November 1765 (same period as the October list). Same assessment: storekeeper John of West Nottingham, probably Glasgow-2871, is the likelier addressee; only possible.
[b. c. 1738; d. 1792-04-03] · letter addressee, NottinghamWhy this candidate?
As group 1033731085: two Johns taxed in West Nottingham in 1765 (storekeeper 50 acres; inmate). The storekeeper chain points to Glasgow-2871; the inmate cannot be excluded for a letter. Glasgow-2870 left possible.
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