Person:Arthur Glasgow (1)

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Arthur Glasgow
m. Abt 1748
  1. Robert Glasgow1748/49 - 1834
  2. Arthur Glasgow1750 - 1822
  3. Joseph Glasgow
m. 1782
  1. John Glasgow1785 - 1830
  2. Ann Nancy Glasgow1788 - 1877
  3. Robert Glasgow1790 - 1839
  4. Margaret Glasgow1793 - 1873
Facts and Events
Name[1] Arthur Glasgow
Gender Male
Birth? 1750 Londonderry, Ireland
Marriage 1782 to Rebecca Anderson McNutt
Death[2] May 1822 Rockbridge County, Virginia

Arthur Glasgow was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia

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Records in Augusta County, VA

From Chalkley’s Augusta County Records:

  • Vol. 2 - Marriage Bond - 1785--August 29, James Finley and James Sproul, surety. James Finley and Prudence Moore, daughter of Saml. Moore (consent). Teste: Arthur Glasgow, Saml. McCorkle.

Marriage Record

From Rockbridge county records
Know all men by these presents that as Arthur Glasgow, William McNutt ? and Jim Ely bound to the Commonwealth of Virginia in the ? of 50 pounds and to which payment ask and truly later made we do find ? ? ? jointly ? firly by these Presents dates with our marks this 7th day of January 1782.
When as they is an a marriage bond to taken to be to be solemnized between the above bound Arthur Galsgow & Rebecca McCorkle Widow the conditoin of the Present Obiligation is such that if they be no lawful cause to appoint the same then the above obligation to be paid or else to Remain in force.
Arthur glasgow (Seal)
Andrew Riveth (Seal)
John McNutt (Seal)

Information on Arthur Glascow

From “The Woman Within” by Ellen Glasgow, an autobiography published posthumously by Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1954. The following is a portion of an appendix titled, “A Dull Note for Genealogists”, pages 298-299, she wrote about the Glasgow side of her family:

“During the Scottish wars in the seventeenth century (the exact date is not known), a branch of the Glasgow family fled from Ayrshire to the Counties Down and Antrim in northern Ireland. In the year 1766, Arthur Glasgow, a ward and a boy of sixteen, came, with his mother and elder brothers, to America, and settled on a tract of land in Rockbridge County, Virginia. The place was named Green Forest because Glas Gow means green forest in Gaelic, and the green tree was a feature of the family arms. The modern towns of Buena Vista, Balcony Falls, and Glasgow are now contained in the original Green Forest plantation. The old brick house, built immediately after the Revolution, on the site probably of an earlier log house, is still standing in Buena Vista. About 1830, the original dwelling was partly burned; but it was rebuilt on the old foundations, with one or two rooms and the large columns of the square front porch still undestroyed. In more recent years a long porch and a railing have been added.

Until my own generation, every member of my father’s family was born at Green Forest. The first American Arthur Glasgow (1750-1822) married Rebekah McNutt, the widow of Ensign John McCorkle, a youth who had fallen in the Revolution.

Their son Robert (1790-1839) married his cousin Catherine Anderson, the daughter of Col. William Anderson, of Walnut Hill, Botetourt County, Virginia, and his wife, Anne Thomas, daughter of Francis Thomas, of Montvue, near Frederick, Maryland.

The Andersons also were Scottish refugees in Ireland, in the seventeenth century. There, Robert Anderson married a Miss Graham (Margaret), the daughter of a Captain Graham, who was captured and executed in the Claverhouse wars. Family tradition relates that this young man was a near kinsman of the great Marquis of Montrose. But that is merely tradition, with an apocryphal flavour. Colonel William Anderson, their descendent (1764-1839), of Walnut Hill, lived all his long life in the pioneer homestead of stone and round logs. Botecourt County was nearer the frontier than was Rockbridge, and in his youth Indians were still roaming the wilderness. As a boy of sixteen, he ran away from home in the night, and traveled two days and nights through the forest, with savages around him, in order to join the Revolution. He fought in the Battle of Cowpens and Guilford Courthouse, and in the War of 1812 he served as a colonel. In his later years, because he was called in to decide so many disputes among his neighbors, he was known as Squire Anderson. Hi three sons were all distinguished in theVirginia of their period. They were Colonel John T. Anderson, of Lexington, Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, and rector of Washinton and Lee University; General Joseph Reid Anderson, president of the Tredegar Iron Works, Richmond.

Catherine, the daughter of Colonel William Anderson, was born in 1797. She was married to Robert Glasgow and was the mother of my father.”


Citations

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=tyrilla&id=I5512
References
  1. Brøderbund Software, Inc. World Family Tree Vol. 2, Ed. 1. (Release date: November 29, 1995)
    Tree #6075.

    Date of Import: May 3, 2006

  2. Find A Grave.

    Arthur Glasgow
    BIRTH 1750
    Northern Ireland
    DEATH May 1822 (aged 71–72)
    Rockbridge County, Virginia, USA
    BURIAL
    Falling Spring Presbyterian Church Cemetery
    Glasgow, Rockbridge County, Virginia, US

    Arthur Glasgow died in May 1822, aged 72 years, so he was born in ABOUT 1750. He married Rebeckah Anderson McNutt McCorkle, in "about 1782." She was the widow of John McCorkle (died Jan 1781) and the daughter of John McNutt and Katherine Anderson.

    According to the source below, "Arthur Glasgow was a descendant of Earl Glasgow, of Scotland," where Arthur emigrated from to our colonies. Oren Frederic Morton's, A History of Rockbridge County, Virginia, Supplement, Staunton, VA, 1920, page 304-306 has some data on Arthur and his family through Alexander McNutt Glasgow. Page 253-254, says the 3 Glasgow brothers, Arthur, Robert and Joseph came to our colonies in the late 1700's. The local Glasgow Township was named for this family.

    They had Glasgow children:
    Joseph Glasgow, 14 Oct 1783
    Robert Glasgow,
    John,
    Margaret Glasgow (Mrs. Edmondson),
    Rebecca (John Carr, 1804)
    Nancy Glasgow, (Thos McCleland, 1804)

    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/36061430/arthur-glasgow