Jeremiah Glasgo (abt. 1713 - 1777)

Born about 1713 in Charles County, Maryland

Descendants

Died 18 Jan 1777 at about age 64 in Big Whitley Creek (on homestead) Greene Co. Pennsylvania

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Biography

Jeremiah was born about 1713. He passed away in 1777.

Sources

• from Waycoff History of Greene Co. PA.

recd' from Cornerstone Genealogical Society P.O. Box 547 Waynesburg, PA Origins of Our Pioneer Settlers

The pioneer settlers of this county were mostly from Virginia, New Jersey, Maryland and Southeastern Pennsylvania. Nearly all of them came be way of Cumberland, Maryland. It was then a military post - a frontier post. Soon Old Fort Redstone, where Brownsville now is located, became a military post and rallying point and a radiating point from which the pioneer settlers made selections of home sites. A few settlers left the road leading from Cumberland to Old Fort Redstone at a point east of Uniontown and came by the Sandy Creek road and crossed the Monongahela river at Hyde's ferry at the mouth of Big Whiteley Creek. Two radiating points for the pioneer settlers nearby, but of less importance, were Swearingen's Fort, later Crow's Fort, near the Cross Roads in Fayette county. Through here the Dilliners and many others came: the other was at the home of George and Margaret Hupp, about one mile west of Millsboro, in the bluff west of Black Dog Hollow, on the north of Ten Mile Creek, the Hughes, Neils, Hillers, Swans, the Teagardens and many others came by way of the Hupps. The Minors, the Gapens, and Jeremiah Glassgow came directly from Old Fort Redstone. Some difference of opnion has arisen as to who were our first permanent settlers in this county. Some of the following statements have been written in other numbers of these articles, yet it is thought best to repeat some of them. Some writers have thought that Thomas Hughes, the Swans and the Van Meters, who settled in the vicinity of Rices Landing and Carmicheals, can claim to have had ancestors who were the first settlers. They came there in 1767. Lawrence Minor, Esquire, who was a prominent man of Waynesburg, and others, insisted that his father, Colonel John Minor, who settled at Mapletwon on Whiteley creek, and Jeremiah Glasgow, who setled at the same time at Mt. Morris on Dunkard creek, were the first settlers. They settled there in 1764.