Reported events, notices, advertisements and letters. OCR matches need visual checking; place names, vessels and matches to other surnames are excluded from Glasgow surname evidence.
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Reviewed newspaper notices
2 distinct notices from 2 retained pages, earliest first. Reprints of the same notice are merged; 2 pages have saved inline excerpts. Open a notice for its clipping, reading and profile assessment.
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2 distinct notices · 2 retained pages
1793Verified surname passagepost-office listPossible match
John Glasgow
Carlisle (care-of address in list)Birth unknown
Addressee in the Carlisle post-office list headed 1 January 1793; the entry gives care of William Brown, Esq.
Published 1793-03-06 · The Carlisle Gazette, and the Western Repository of Knowledge · p. 1
Faithful bounded original viewer excerpt; provider search highlighting retained where visible. No reconstructed text. Issue metadata supplied by Newspapers.com. Source reference: The Carlisle Gazette, and the Western Repository of Knowledge · 1793-03-06 · p. 1. Open for full size; inspect the original page for context.Additional excerpts from this issue — 1Faithful bounded original source passage, visually checked 5 October 2026; long-s typography normalized to Glasgow in the reading. Issue heading outside crop; provider issue metadata retained. Original excerpt page ↗
What the notice says
John Glasgow, care of William Brown, Esq., is an addressee in the Carlisle post-office list headed 1 January 1793.
Evidence and identity limits
Care of is a mailing direction, not kinship, residence, occupation or proof the addressee was alive. Glasgow-2871 remains another weak Pennsylvania regional comparison, with recorded 1792 death allowing possible posthumous mail. Identity remains unresolved. Compatible candidates have chronology only, without an individual place, occupation or family bridge. These three John contexts may involve different men; the two Allegheny reprints are one list. Identity review (6 October 2026): A Carlisle post-office list headed 1 January 1793 includes letters for John Glasgow, care of William Brown, Esq. No WikiTree profile can be identified. Cumberland County-born John Glasgow (Glasgow-3726) is a newly noted regional possibility; the earlier namesake comparisons are weak or unlikely.
[b. 1764-03-06; d. 1833-08-29] · addressee, Carlisle post office, care of William Brown, Esq. (Jan 1793)Why this candidate?
The entry gives only the name and a care-of mailing direction ('care of William Brown, Esq.'). It states no residence, occupation or kin. Carlisle is the Cumberland County seat. Glasgow-3726 (John, b. 6 March 1764 Cumberland, Pennsylvania; d. 1833 Madison County, Kentucky, intestate) is the only WikiTree John recorded as born in Cumberland County and would have been 28. The match is name, county and age only, so it is possible. Glasgow-2871 (John, c.1738–3 April 1792, merchant of West Nottingham, buried at Rising Sun, Maryland) died nine months before the list. Mail can outlive its addressee, but his south-eastern Chester/York/Cecil locality offers no Carlisle link, so he is unlikely. Glasgo
1793Verified surname passagepost-office lettersPossible match
James Glasgow
Fayetteville (post-office addressee)Birth unknown
Named as an addressee in letters remaining at Fayetteville post office; list dated 5 November 1793.
Published 1793-11-19 · The Encyclopedian Instructor · p. 1
Faithful bounded original source passage, visually checked 5 October 2026; long-s typography normalized to Glasgow in the reading. Issue heading outside crop; provider issue metadata retained. Source reference: The Encyclopedian Instructor · 1793-11-19 · p. 1. Open for full size; inspect the original page for context.Additional excerpts from this issue — 1Faithful bounded original source passage, visually checked 5 October 2026; long-s typography normalized to Glasgow in the reading. Issue heading outside crop; provider issue metadata retained. Original excerpt page ↗
What the notice says
James Glasgow, Fayetteville, is an addressee in letters remaining at Fayetteville post office, list dated 5 November 1793.
Evidence and identity limits
Post-office heading and entry saved separately. Fayetteville is the printed address qualifier; neither collection, permanent residence, age, household nor continued life is established. Identity review (6 October 2026): A Fayetteville post-office list dated 5 November 1793 includes James Glasgow, Fayetteville. The only compatible profile is the Secretary of State, Glasgow-634, but a bare postal entry gives only a possible match.
[b. c. 1735; d. 1819-11-17] · addressee, Fayetteville post office (Nov 1793)Why this candidate?
The entry has no title or office. Fayetteville was a regular General Assembly and Grand Lodge meeting place in this period, where Glasgow-634 is placed in 1788–1789, and he is the only adult James Glasgow found in North Carolina. However, 'Fayetteville' here is only a postal address. No feature of the entry is unique to him, and a transient or unrecorded namesake cannot be excluded, so it stays possible. Identity context as in group 604128613: Glasgow-634 is the documented NC Secretary of State 1777–1798, Dobbs/Glasgow County resident and militia colonel; WikiTree has no other adult NC James Glasgow (son Glasgow-2492, b. 1776, is the only other).
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