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Reviewed newspaper notices
2 distinct notices from 7 retained pages, earliest first. Reprints of the same notice are merged; 7 pages have saved inline excerpts. Open a notice for its clipping, reading and profile assessment.
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2 distinct notices · 7 retained pages
1770Verified surname passageexecution-sale noticePrinted in 4 issuesPossible match
Samuel Glasgow
Whitpain Township (adjoining land in sale notice; not asserted as residence)Birth unknown
Named as an adjoining landowner in a Whitpain Township execution-sale notice for about fifty acres, late Isaac Williams’s estate.
Published 1770-02-01 – 1770-08-23 · The Pennsylvania Gazette · p. 3
Original downloaded scan or supported original viewer screenshot, faithfully cropped; no reconstruction; long s normalized in the maintained reading. Issue metadata follows Newspapers.com unless noted. Source reference: The Pennsylvania Gazette · 1770-02-01 · p. 3. Open for full size; inspect the original page for context.
What the notice says
Samuel Glasgow is an adjoining landowner in a Whitpain Township execution-sale notice for about fifty acres, late Isaac Williams’s estate, bounded by John Saunders, Samuel Glasgow, John Eldridge and Thomas Blackledge.
Evidence and identity limits
A boundary name, not the deceased estate owner, buyer or executor. February and August notices concern the same described estate; their planned sale dates differ, preserved in each issue assessment. Planned sale: 17 February 1770, at Abraham Wentz’s house. No completed sale is established. Identity review (6 October 2026): Samuel Glasgow is a boundary landowner in a February 1770 Whitpain Township execution-sale notice (late Isaac Williams's estate). A 1769 Philadelphia County proprietary tax list (transcription) independently places a Samuel Glascow in Whitpain, confirming a resident there; no WikiTree Samuel has any eastern-Pennsylvania record, so the best fit, Glasgow-3175, stays only possible.
[b. c. 1740; d. c. 1801] · adjoining landowner, Whitpain TownshipWhy this candidate?
Independent corroboration of residence: 1769 Philadelphia County proprietary tax list, Whitpain Township, 'Samuel Glascow' (Friends Journal Gwynedd-area transcription; John Sanders of the same notice also listed in Whitpain). WikiTree candidates: Glasgow-3175 (b. c.1740 Ulster, d. 1801 Hanover Twp, Washington Co., PA; wife Mary Stephenson) is a Pennsylvania settler of the right age, with no record placing him in Whitpain - possible only (his biography's Old Bailey 1761 'Samuel Glascow' identification is itself unproved). Glasgow-1134 (Cecil County-born c.1749-1754; probably the First Maryland sergeant of 1776-77, see group 41048937) is weak. Glasgow-1492 (Moneymore, b. c.1726; possibly the 1
1770Verified surname passageland-sale noticePrinted in 3 issuesPossible match
Samuel Glasgow
Whitpain Township, Pennsylvania (land boundary)Birth unknown
Named as boundary landowner for thirty acres of a fifty-acre tract, late Isaac Williams’s estate.
Published 1770-07-12 – 1770-07-26 · The Pennsylvania Gazette · p. 3
Original downloaded scan or supported original viewer screenshot, faithfully cropped; no reconstruction; long s normalized in the maintained reading. Issue metadata follows Newspapers.com unless noted. Source reference: The Pennsylvania Gazette · 1770-07-12 · p. 3. Open for full size; inspect the original page for context.
What the notice says
Samuel Glasgow is a boundary landowner for thirty acres, part of a fifty-acre Whitpain Township tract, late Isaac Williams’s estate, also bounded by John Saunders and John Eldridge. A sale is advertised for 9 August at William Lawrence’s house in Plymouth Township.
Evidence and identity limits
Three issue appearances of one notice. The separate Limerick property’s 7 August sale does not apply here. No completed sale, occupation or kinship is established. Identity review (6 October 2026): Same Whitpain Township estate re-advertised July 1770: Samuel Glasgow is a boundary landowner of the 30-acre part. Same conclusion as group 39398014: a real Whitpain resident (1769 tax list), no profile beyond possible (Glasgow-3175).
[b. c. 1740; d. c. 1801] · boundary landowner, Whitpain TownshipWhy this candidate?
Same man as the February 1770 notice (same estate, same neighbours John Saunders and John Eldridge). 1769 Philadelphia County tax list has Samuel Glascow in Whitpain. No WikiTree profile documents him; Glasgow-3175 is a compatible Pennsylvania namesake only; 1134 and 1492 weaker (see group 39398014).
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