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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
1771Verified surname passagepost-office listPossible match
John Glasgow
West Nottingham, Chester County, PennsylvaniaBirth unknown
Named as an addressee in the Charles-Town post-office list.
William Glasgow
Place not statedBirth unknown
Named separately as an addressee in the same post-office list.
Place / address
Published 1771-10-24 · Maryland Gazette · p. 3
Faithful bounded original viewer excerpt; provider search highlighting retained where visible. No reconstructed text. Issue metadata supplied by Newspapers.com. Source reference: Maryland Gazette · 1771-10-24 · p. 3. Open for full size; inspect the original page for context.
What the notice says
John Glasgow, in West Nottingham, Chester County, and William Glasgow are separate addressees in the Charles-Town, Maryland, post-office list headed 1 October 1771.
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 original heading says Charles-Town, Maryland, not Anne Arundel County. Sydney George is a separate next addressee; Cecil County accompanies Sydney, not a newly established address for William. 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): Charles-Town (Cecil County), Maryland letter list, 1 October 1771: John Glasgow in West Nottingham, Chester County, and a separate William Glasgow. Two Johns were taxed in West Nottingham in 1771 (landholder and inmate), so John is only possibly Glasgow-2871; Glasgow-2870 (d. 1769) is now unlikely. William has no WikiTree profile; the Cecil County William named among the children of James Glasgow Sr. (d. 1784) in Cecil probate is a plausible but unproved identity. No compatible WikiTree profile after a duplicate search for: William Glasgow.
[b. c. 1738; d. 1792-04-03] · letter addressee, West Nottingham, Chester CountyWhy this candidate?
1771 Chester County tax index: John Glasko, West Nottingham, 70 acres, landholder, and John Glascow, West Nottingham, inmate. The landholder is the continuing holding probably belonging to Glasgow-2871 (see group 39404812); the inmate is another adult John (possibly the Moneymore John, Glasgow-4027, whose family arrived in Nottingham c.1769 per Robert Glasgow's pension R4057 - he was in Peters Twp, Cumberland Co., by 1779). Glasgow-2870 is unlikely: recorded dead May 1769, and two living same-name residents of the township are available.
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