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United States newspapers, 1777

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Reviewed newspaper notices

1 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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1 distinct notices · 3 retained pages

1777Verified surname passagemilitary orderPrinted in 3 issuesPossible match

Samuel Glasgow

Place not statedb. by c. 1759 adult estimate

Named among absent soldiers of the First Maryland Regiment ordered to return by 10 November; notice threatens apprehension and punishment as deserters and offers influence toward pardons.

Birth estimate / source

Adult soldier ordered to return in 1777, assuming 18+; age not stated

Occupation / trade

Published 1777-10-23 – 1777-11-06 · Maryland Gazette · p. 2

Newspaper excerpt for 1777-10-23; reading and assessment follow
Faithful bounded original viewer excerpt; provider search highlighting retained where visible. No reconstructed text. Issue metadata supplied by Newspapers.com. Source reference: Maryland Gazette · 1777-10-23 · p. 2. Open for full size; inspect the original page for context.

What the notice says

A notice dated Baltimore, 19 October 1777, signed Joseph Ford, orders absent soldiers of the First Maryland Regiment, including Samuel Glasgow, to return by 10 November. It threatens apprehension and punishment as deserters and offers influence toward pardons.

Evidence and identity limits

Samuel appears in the final unassigned group. Capt. Murray’s company belongs to William Wood, Thomas Kenady and William Langley immediately before the dash. The notice is dated 19 October 1777, sets 10 November as rendezvous, threatens punishment for failure and offers influence toward pardons. No adjudicated desertion, return, punishment, actual pardon or 1761 military commutation is proved. Three archive page URLs preserve one reprinted notice, including two scans labelled 23 October. Glasgow-1134 is the strongest contextual candidate through his estimated Cecil County birth; service identity remains possible, not proved. The other American candidates remain compatible. Identity review (6 October 2026): Baltimore notice of 19 Oct 1777 (Joseph Ford) ordering absent First Maryland Regiment soldiers, including Samuel Glasgow, to return by 10 November. The Maryland State Archives' biography of Samuel Glasgow (SC 3520-17195) documents exactly this soldier: born Cecil County c.1753-54, enlisted 4th Company, First Maryland, 20 May 1776, captured at Brooklyn, re-enlisted as corporal, sergeant 1777, deserted at Morristown 12 July 1777. MSA tentatively places him in the Cecil County family that WikiTree has under Glasgow-2868, whose son Samuel is Glasgow-1134; that WikiTree match remains possible.

Who this may be

Samuel Glasgow (Glasgow-1134)possible
[b. c. 1749; d. c. 1834] · absent soldier, First Maryland Regiment, ordered to return
Why this candidate?

Soldier identity (not a WikiTree profile) is strong: the MSA Biographical Series entry for Samuel Glasgow, First Maryland Regiment (private 1776, corporal 1776, sergeant 1777), records his desertion from camp at Morristown on 12 July 1777 and a deserter advertisement (Maryland Journal, December 1777) giving his birth in Cecil County 1753/54 - the same man as this notice's absent Samuel of the First Maryland. The MSA biography says he 'may have been' the Samuel son of Ann and James Glasgow Sr. (d. 1784) of Cecil County, with siblings Ezekiel (d. 1780), Adam (d. 1782-83), James, Elizabeth Mary, William and Hannah - which is the WikiTree family of Glasgow-2868 and Hartshorne-320 (children 1134

Research draft (documentary subject)
Original newspaper page ↗Link to this notice
Repeated notice — 3 original issues

These issues carry the same normalized maintained reading; each original page remains available.

Alternative saved issue excerpts
Newspaper excerpt from 1777-10-23; Maryland Gazette, page 2
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: Maryland Gazette · 1777-10-23 · p. 2. Open for full size; inspect the original page for context.
Newspaper excerpt from 1777-11-06; Maryland Gazette, page 2
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: Maryland Gazette · 1777-11-06 · p. 2. Open for full size; inspect the original page for context.
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