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Reviewed newspaper notices
2 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.
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2 distinct notices · 3 retained pages
1773Verified surname passageexecution-sale noticePrinted in 2 issuesPossible match
John Glascow
West Nottingham Township, Chester County (adjoining land; not asserted as residence)Birth unknown
Named as an adjoining landholder in an execution-sale notice for 22½ acres, late Michael Dintz’s estate.
Published 1773-04-28 – 1773-05-05 · The Pennsylvania Gazette · p. 1
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What the notice says
John Glascow is an adjoining landholder in a West-Nottingham Township, Chester County execution-sale notice for 22½ acres, late Michael Dintz’s estate, bounded by Abraham Bunting, John Glascow and others.
Evidence and identity limits
Planned sale 11 May at one o’clock on the premises; Henry Hayes, sheriff; notice dated 28 April 1773. John is the neighbouring landholder, not the deceased estate owner, buyer or executor. Sale completion is unproved. Identity review (6 October 2026): John Glascow is the neighbouring landholder of Michael Dintz's 22.5-acre West Nottingham tract in an April 1773 sheriff's sale. The only John taxed as a West Nottingham landholder in 1773 is the continuing storekeeper/landholder whose holding passes to Hugh Glasgow in 1793, i.e. probably Glasgow-2871.
[b. c. 1738; d. 1792-04-03] · adjoining landholder, West Nottingham TownshipWhy this candidate?
1773 Chester County tax index, West Nottingham: John Glasgow, 50 acres, Landholder, and John Glasgow, Inmate (an inmate is a non-landholding lodger and so cannot be the bounding landholder). The landholder's holding runs continuously 1765-1791 (storekeeper 1765/1767) and is followed by Hugh Glasgow's West Nottingham holding from 1793, matching Glasgow-2871 (d. 3 Apr 1792; father of Hugh, Glasgow-2873). Glasgow-2870 died 1769. Glasgow-4027 (Moneymore John, later of Peters Twp, Cumberland Co.) is at most the inmate. The East Nottingham landholder John (30 acres in 1773) is a residual competitor only if the Dintz tract straddled the township line. Name + township + landholder status + date agre
Listed among letters remaining at Lancaster post office.
Published 1773-07-21 · The Pennsylvania Gazette · p. 4
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What the notice says
James Glasgow (2) is listed among letters remaining in Lancaster’s post office.
Evidence and identity limits
Alphabetical letters-remaining list headed Post-Office, Lancaster. The (2) marker is preserved without reading it as an age. Nearby county names belong to other entries; the post office is not proof of James’s residence. Normalized Glasgow is the personal surname reading. The three checked profiles remain possible; none identifies the addressee. No link to the 1757 Philadelphia/Fogs Manor, 1775 Charlestown or 1777 shipmaster James is established. Identity review (6 October 2026): James Glasgow, with a '(2)' marker, in the Lancaster post-office letter list of July 1773. Name only; no profile can be singled out.
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