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Reviewed newspaper notices
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1 distinct notices · 1 retained pages
1766Verified surname passagesubscription advertisementPossible match
John Glasgow
Near Oxford (as stated)Birth unknown
Listed among people taking subscriptions for De Jure Regni; advertisement dated 22 May 1766.
Published 1766-05-29 · The Pennsylvania Gazette · p. 4
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What the notice says
John Glasgow near Oxford is listed among people taking in subscriptions for De Jure Regni; advertisement dated 22 May 1766.
Evidence and identity limits
The notice explicitly says subscriptions are taken in by the named people: John is a listed subscription collector/agent, not a proved paying subscriber. Oxford is preserved without assigning a modern jurisdiction; locality comparison is qualified. 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 'near Oxford' is one of the agents taking subscriptions for De Jure Regni (May 1766). Both the West Nottingham storekeeper (probably Glasgow-2871) and an East Nottingham landholder John (taxed 1768-1775) lived near Oxford, so identity stays possible.
[b. c. 1738; d. 1792-04-03] · local subscription agent for De Jure Regni, near OxfordWhy this candidate?
A subscription agent is typically a storekeeper or other local man of business, which favours the West Nottingham storekeeper John (taxed storekeeper 1765 and 1767; probably Glasgow-2871). But the Chester County tax index also has a John Glascow/Glasgow landholder in East Nottingham 1768-1775, and East Nottingham adjoins Oxford, so 'near Oxford' does not single out the West Nottingham man. Glasgow-2870 remains a possible namesake without distinguishing evidence.
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