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Index Library, Vol. 62, London Marriage Licenses, page 120.
Guildhall Library, City of London Libraries, London EC.2, MS 10,
091/16:
17 Mo Jun 1634...
"This day appeared personally Thomas Glascock of ye parishe of St.
Mary Whitechappell in ye county of Middlesex, joyner and a batchelor
aged about 23 yeares and at his owne government & alledgeth that he
intendeth to marry Jane Juet of ye same place, maiden aged about 23
years & att her own government, her parents being deceased & that
there is noe lawful lett or impediment by reason of any precontract,
consanguinity, affinity or otherwise, to hinder this intended
marriage, he made faith and desired license for them to be married in
ye parish churche of St. Mary Staynings, London. (Signed)
Thomas Glascock
(Signed) Row: Jennings--(Rowland Jennings, surrogate of the Vicar
General of the Bishop of London)"
(See The Glas(s)cocks of England and America by Rev. Lawrence A.
Glassco on page 231 for a copy of the license).
By signing his name Thomas shows he was of the Gentry class.
Thomas had moved to VA with his family by 1643 because on 30 Aug 1643
he received two land patents. From the patents we know his wife's
name was "Jane". The reason for moving might have been the 1642 Civil
War in England instigated by a power struggle between King Charles I
and the Parliment led by Oliver Cromwell.
One of the 1643 patents was for 130 acres in Warwick River Co.
"parallel to his own and land of John Leyden and adjacent to land of
Thomas Davis" possibly for transporting three persons to Virginia
from England. This was for land on the lower part of the penninsula
between the James and York Rivers and situated near the James River
somewhat between Newport News, Hampton and Yorktown. John Leyden is
listed in the records as an "Ancient Planter", one who arrived in
Virginia before 1616. He arrived with John Smith and the first
settlers, at age 27, on the "Susan Constant" in 1607.
On 30 Aug 1643, Thomas also patented 200 acres "a mile and a half upon
the south side of Peankatanke River, adjacent Christopher Boyce" for
transporting 4 persons to Virginia, which included Thomas and his
wife, Jane. In 1652 he was appointed Justice of the Peace for the
Peankatanke area by the Burgesses, sitting at Jamestown. The
Peankatanke River was north of his other patent, between the York and
the Rappahannock Rivers. It flows into the Chesapeak Bay just a few
miles below the mouth of the Rappahannock. The first patent on the
Rappahannock was granted in 1642, and only four others before Thomas'.
The south shore of the Peankatanke was inhabited by the Chiskiake
Indians. It is believe that the Glascocks lived in this are for about
9 years.
On 28 Jul 1652 Thomas was granted a patent for 600 acres about 30
miles north of his Peankatanke land, on Morattico Creek in Lancaster
Co. of VA. Two hundred of these acres were received in exchange for
the surrender of his first patent for the land on the Peankatanke
River and the remaining 400 acres were for transporting eight more
persons to the colony.
On 9 Jan 1662, Thomas received another patent for 280 acres adjoining
the land he had at the head of the Morattico Creek for transporting 6
more persons. It is most likely that he moved his family north onto
the Morattico Creek property during the early 1660s. Morattico Creek
was named for the "Moraughtacund Indians".
"Thomas Glassocks's land, in Lancaster Co., is on a narrow seaboard
peninsula of VA called the 'Northern Neck' which is bounded on the
east by Chesapeake Bay, on the north by the Potomac River (River of
Swans), and on the south by the Rappahannock River (Quick Rising
Waters). Only fifteen to twenty miles wide, it runs inland between
the great rivers for about a hundred miles. The Glascock land is
located on the point of land at the junction of the Morattico and the
Lancaster (formerly also called the Morattico) Creeks where they flow
into the Rappahannock River, and is thus surrounded on three sides by
water. The land is situated uphill from the little fishing village of
Simonson. The East Creek (Lancaster Creek) is the boundary between
Richmond and Lancaster Counties... This area was one of the most
densely inhabited parts of Powhaten's Empire, and the hardest fighting
must have occurred along the Rappahannock near the 'Indian Banks'
area."
(Source: The Glas(s)cock--Glassco Saga, by Lawrence A. Glassco)
The Thomas Glascock Family (Thomas Glascock & Jane Juet & children -
the immigrants) have their family name inscribed on the American
Immigrant Wall of Honor on Ellis Island in New Jersey (near the Statue
of Liberty - next island in New York).
The family appears on Panel # 706 which was just recently installed in
late December, 2003.
I have chosen to have the Thomas Glascock Family - our immigrant
ancestors of about 1643- to be honored on the Wall of Honor at Ellis
Island.
Although our Glascock family did not immigrate through Ellis Island,
this wall has been chosen to honor immigrants to the USA. The wall
contains the names of President George Washington's great grandfather
and John F. Kennedy's great grandparents among others. If you travel
to Ellis Island be sure and see the wall where Thomas Glascock & Jane
(Juet) Glascock & children are honored.
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1613 - 1667 (53 years)