| 8. | Peter Glasscock, Sr. was born on 13 Mar 1714 in Richmond Co, Virginia (son of Thomas Glasscock and Sarah Stone); died in 1784 in Rowan Co, North Carolina. Other Events and Attributes:
- Unknown-Begin: 28 Jun 1749, Prince William Co, Virginia; witnessed document
- Residence: 1782, Frederick Co, Virginia; tax list
- Will: 24 Oct 1783, Rowan Co, North Carolina
Notes:
By 1741, Peter and his family had left the Virginia Tidewater area, and moved northwest to the "backwoods" to join his brother John at the foot of Mother Leathercoat Mountain located in Prince William County (later Fauquier Conuty). He leased 200 acres from Capt. George Brent described as being on Slate Run, and just west of Brentsville. It would be about 7 miles south of the Manassas National Battlefield Park. He is listed on poll lists there in 1741 and 1761. The poll list from 1761 shows that Peter voted for Colonel John Baylis and Colonel Henry Lee (father of Lighthorse Henry Lee of Revolutionary fame and grandfather of Robert E. Lee) for Burgesses of Prince William County. His wife Jane evidently died in the 1760's, and he married a second time to Mary. Peter had moved about 12 miles further northwest by the early 1760's when he settled on a piece of Carter property in the Goose Creek area of Fauquier County near the historic "Ashby's Gap" pass through the Blue Ridge Mountains. A mansion named "Oakley" now stands where his property was located just south of the Alexandria Turnpike. This ancient road is now U.S 50, the Lee-Jackson Highway.
On the eve of the Revolution, in 1770, Peter (or his son Peter) was hauled before the Loudon County Court for apparently behaving in an ungentlemanly manner toward one Abraham Lewis. Peter was the leader of three men who each had to post bonds of good behavior. Peter was 61 at the outbreak of the Revolution, and was appointed surveyor of the road from Pantherskin to the Blue Ridge, and was charged with keeping the road in repair. Because of his service as a "Road Reviewer" his descendants are entitled to membership in the D.A.R. and other patriotic organizations. A neighbor of Peter's several miles to the west was John Marshall, who was born in 1755 in Frederick County and became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in 1801. In the 1780's Peter was sued by Marshall for two pounds and collected in the suit. The 1782 tax list of Frederick County list him as owner of 11 slaves.
Shortly after the tax lists were made up, he and his family by his second wife Mary moved to Rowan County, North Carolina, then the whole northeast corner of the state. Peter settled on Dutchman's Creek in the Yadkin Valley (now Davie County), just north of Salisbury. It appears that a large group of Fauquier County families migrated to the North Carolina Piedmont, perhaps in one caravan. This migration was just after the end of the war, for Cornwallis surrenderd after the Battle of Yorktown in 1781. Very likely the Virginia homes and farms of these people were destroyed in the War, and they were forced to leave their homesteads to find new land. Some of Peter's sons fought in the North Carolina militia during the war, and perhaps they were attracted to new land in the Carolina's during this adventure and consequently moved there after the hostilies ended.
Sources:
Author: Glassco
Title: The Glas(s)cock-Glassco Saga
Abbrev: The Glas(s)cock-Glassco Saga
Publication: 1974
Repository:
Name: James Glasscock
Media: Book
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Peter was the son of Thomas and Sarah Stone Glasscock. He married Jane Fishback bef. 1735
and they had nine children. John, Gregory, James, Peter, Sarah, Jesse, Jane, Frances and Elizabeth. He married Mary Jane Rector abt 1760 and they had eight children, Spencer, Moses, gregory, charles, William, Wharton, Elijah and Margaret.
(findagrave)
Birth:
Name: Peter Glascock
Father: Thomas Glascock
Mother: Sarah Stone
Birth Date: 13 Mar 1714
State: VA
Unknown-Begin:
Prince William County, Virginia Deeds {Antient Press}: Liber L; 1748 - 1749; pp 207-209
THIS INDENTURE made this 26th day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty Nine Between GEORGE BRENT of STAFFORD County gent of one part and SCARLETT MADDAIN of Prince William County Planter of the other part Witnesseth that the said GEORGE BRENT for the rents and duties herein after mentioned hath granted to farm let a tract of land in the County of Prince William containing Two hundred acres bounded beginning at the main branch of SLATY RUN and thence along JOHN WIGGINTONs line and thence along JAMES WHALEYs line and so along the line that shall divide ANDW. ANNANs plantation from this and so to the beginning to him the said SCARLETT MADDAIN during his natural life also the natural life of MARGRET now the sd Wife of the said SCARLETT and during the natural life of GEORGE the Son of the said SCARLETT & MARGRET or the survivor of them To Have and To Hold all and singular the houses & appurtenances thereunto belonging paying yearly unto GEORGE BRENT upon the Tenth day of November One thousand Seven hundred and Fifty three when the same shall become due the sum of Five hundred and thirty pounds of good Legal &Merchantable tobacco with Cask to contain the same according to Law Provided that if the yearly rent be unpaid after the tenth day of November forty days that then it may be lawfull for GEORGE BRENT or his Bailiff or Attorney into the said preys: to enter and the goods chattles then and there found to take and distrain and bear away according to Law and it is further agreed that the said SCARLETT, MARGARET or GEORGE MADDAN shall not consign or make over the said land and it further agreed that either of them shall not at any time during the said term commit any manner of waste or damage upon the premises or upon the trees except which shall be realy necessary for the building repairing or advantageing the said plantation and for necessary fire wood as also for Tobacco caske & the clearing of ground to plant. In Witness whereof both parties have set their hands and seals
in presence of JOHN MINOR JUNR GEO. BRENT
PETER GLASCOCK
At a Court held for the County of Prince William the 26th day of June 1749
GEORGE BRENT gent acknowledged this Lease to SCARLEIT MADDAIN to be his act and deed which is admitted to record
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Will:
Peter wrote his will on October 24, 1783. Included in it was a plantation of 320 acres lying between Dutchman's Creek and Cedar Creek in Rowan County, 10 Negroes, and several amounts of cash. All, or most, of his children by wife Jane remained in Virginia where they married and rasied families. He willed one shilling to each of his children in Virginia. The children of his second wife Mary, located in North Carolina, and received the bulk of his estate.
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Name: Peter Glascock
Probate Year: 1784
Estimated Death Year: Abt 1784
Inferred Place of Death: North Carolina, USA
Full Abstract:
1784 GLASCOCK, PETER, Mary, Spencer, Charles, Moses, William, Wharton, Elijah, Margaret, Gregory.
Peter married Mary Rector about 1760 in Virginia. Mary was born about 1730 in Virginia; died after 1784 in of, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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1847 - Aft 1860 (14 years)