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I can find no record of Thomas(2) Glascock moving to NC or living
outside of the Richmond Co, VA area. Thomas(2)'s son Col. George(3) is
credited with building Indian Banks in 1699.
Wills of Richmond County, Virginia 1699-1800 by Headley, Genealogy
Publishing Co. 1983 Will Bk. 3, p.168 - (Col.) George(3) Glascock,
will; Jan 1713/14, 7 Apr 1714
sons William(4) and George(4) the plant, where I now live . . . (this
was Indian Banks). (Courtesy of Jack Glasscock-March 2004)
"Acting at its second session in Williamsburg in 1730 the Virginia
General Assembly passed an enactment to establish a public warehouse
at William Glascock's landing in (then) Richmond Co. The warehouse
was for the inspection and transhipment of tobacco and was the 'port
to which hogheads of tobacco' were brought from the surrounding area
of the Northern Neck for inspection, weighing and loading on boats to
be shipped down the Rappahannock. The salary at Glascock's Landing
was established at 50 pounds per annum. A 1731 record speaks of the
several warehouses at Glascock's Landing, so apparently the
establishment was a flourishing one.
Records of this period show that in 1730 Capt. William Glascock was
appointed to the Commission of Peace for Richmond Co. Major George
Glascock was foreman of a grand jury of Richmond Co. on 5 Nov 1739
which prosecuted Rev. Thomas Blewitt for 'swearing and being drunk!'
In 1748 Million Glascock, eldest daughter of Capt. William and Esther
Ball Glascock, was married to a Capt. William Peachey who served as a
Capt. in Washington's regiment in the French and Indian War where
'they were engaged ... around Winchester'. He later was a Colonel in
the Revolution in the 8th Virginia Regiment in 1776. A note about Dr.
Andrew Robertson, 'a surgeon and plysician of great eminence' who came
to America and fought with Braddock in Pennsylvania in 1755... He
returned to England, later to emigrate to America. On his return trip
to this country he stated that 'landing at Indian Banks, Richmond Co.,
Virginia, he was entertained most kindly by a Scotch merchant, Mr.
Glasscock'. He later married Glascock's daughter, Anne, settled in
Lancaster Co. and became a leading physician and Presbyterian elder on
the Northern Neck.
The account indicates that Robertson landed at 'Indian Banks'
directly from England. This no doubt was the case since
trans-Atlantic ships often landed at Tidewater plantations. These
ships usually loaded tobacco for Europe and brought back in exchange
furniture, plate, linens, fine dress and other items to lend a touch
of fashion to the life of the Virginia gentlemen. Or else they were a
part of the 'trade triangle' between the West Indies, Britain and the
Colonies. Many planters had regular arrangements with yearly visits
not only afforded much excitement to the routine plantation life, but
also were a source of news from the world and the visiting captains
were well entertained by the planters n exchange for the lastest word
about life in Europe, along the Atlantic seaboard, in New England, or
in the Barbadoes, or West Indies.
In 1769 Thomas Glascock, son of Capt. William, was a Burgess for
Richmond County. (On a granite boulder on the site of the Capitol of
Williamsburg, the following inscription was discovered in 1909:
'Members of the House of Burgesses who at the Raleigh Tavern, May 18
1769, and May 27, 1774 and August 1774, entered into associations
against the importation or purchase of British manufacturers' -- names
include Thomas Glascock...."
(Source: The Glas(s)cock--Glassco Saga by Lawrence A. Glassco)
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Abt 1645 - Bef 1701 (~ 55 years)