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Ancestors of Martha Jo (Martha) Cross

Generation No. 13


      6688. John Alexander, born 1590 in Scotland; died Unknown. He was the son of 13376. II William Alexander and 13377. Janet Erskine. He married 6689. Cloe Vershoyle-greene in Ireland.

      6689. Cloe Vershoyle-greene, born in Tassagart, Saggart Co., Dublin, Ireland; died Unknown.

Notes for John Alexander:
John Alexander was born circa 1590 and believed to have descended from the House of
MacAlexander in Tarbert, Kintyre, W. Scotland. He settled at Eredy, near Raphoe, Ireland. He had four sons, Robert, Andrew, Archibald and William and several more unknown.
He was an original settler of County Donegal, Ireland.


     
Children of John Alexander and Cloe Vershoyle-greene are:
  3344 i.   Robert Alexander, born 1610 in Clakmannshire, Stirling, Scotland; died Unknown in Drumquin, Tyrone, Ireland; married Mary Hamilton.
  ii.   Jr. John Alexander, born Abt. 1612 in prob Clakmannshire, Stirling, Scotland; died Unknown.
  iii.   Archibald Alexander, born Abt. 1615 in Clakmannshire, Stirling, Scotland; died Unknown.
  iv.   William Alexander, born Abt. 1620 in Clakmannshire, Stirling, Scotland; died Unknown.
  v.   Andrew Alexander, born Abt. 1635 in Antrim, Armagh, Cawlow, Donegal, Ireland; died Unknown.


      6704. II Robert Pollok, born Abt. 1597 in Northern Ireland, prob. Co. Derry; died Abt. 1640 in Northern Ireland, prob. Co. Derry. He was the son of 13408. I Robert Pollok.

Notes for II Robert Pollok:
Known as Sir Robert Pollok I.
     
Children of II Robert Pollok are:
  3352 i.   Robert Bruce Polk, born Abt. 1625 in Co. Donegal, Northern Ireland; died Abt. 1704 in prob Somerset Co., MD; married Magdalen Tasker Abt. 1671 in Co. Donegal, Ireland.
  ii.   Thomas Polk, born Abt. 1638 in Ireland; died 1704 in Northern Ireland.
  Notes for Thomas Polk:
Thomas inherited the Irish estates located in Donegal Co., close to Londonderry



      6706. Roger Tasker, died Unknown.
     
Child of Roger Tasker is:
  3353 i.   Magdalen Tasker, born Abt. 1635 in Cavanacor, Co. Donegal, Ireland; died Abt. 1727 in prob Somerset Co, MD; married Robert Bruce Polk Abt. 1671 in Co. Donegal, Ireland.


      6712. John Taylor, born August 10, 1607 in Carlisle, England; died 1652 in Carlisle, England or Lancaster, VA. He was the son of 13424. II Thomas Taylor and 13425. Margaret Swinderby. He married 6713. Elizabeth LNU (Taylor) Abt. 1624 in England or VA.

      6713. Elizabeth LNU (Taylor), born Abt. 1610 in Hadleigh, Middlesex, England; died Aft. 1689 in Northumberland, VA.
     
Child of John Taylor and Elizabeth LNU (Taylor) is:
  3356 i.   I James Taylor, born Bet. 1615 - 1635 in Carlisle, Lancaster Co., England; died April 30, 1698 in New Kent Co., VA or King and Queen Co; married Frances Walker Abt. 1666 in Richmond Co., VA.


      6720. William Knox, born 1539 in Ranfurlie, Renfrew, Scotland; died Unknown. He was the son of 13440. William Knox and 13441. Margaret Flemming. He married 6721. Margaret Maxwell Abt. 1557 in Silvyland, Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland.

      6721. Margaret Maxwell, born Abt. 1539 in Newark, , Scotland; died Unknown.
     
Children of William Knox and Margaret Maxwell are:
  i.   John Knox, born Abt. 1558 in Silvyland, Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland; died Unknown.
  3360 ii.   Marcus Knox, born Abt. 1559 in Silvyland, Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland; died 1625 in Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland; married Margaret Greenlees November 16, 1584 in Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland.


      6730. Basil Brooke, born Abt. 1535 in Of, Davenham, Cheshire, England; died 1633 in St Weburgh, , Dublin, Ireland. He was the son of 13460. Thomas Brooke and 13461. Elizabeth Starkey. He married 6731. Ann Leycester 1607 in Ireland.

      6731. Ann Leycester, born Abt. 1586 in Chester, Cheshire, England; died 1656 in England.
     
Children of Basil Brooke and Ann Leycester are:
  3365 i.   Anne Brooke, born Abt. 1608 in Brooke Manor, , Donegal, Ireland; died Abt. 1640 in Lissadorn Castle, , Roscommon, Ireland; married Richard Crofton 1633 in Lissadorn Castle, Roscommon, Ireland.
  ii.   Elizabeth Brooke, born Abt. 1610 in Brookeborough, Fermanagh, Ireland; died Unknown.
  iii.   Henry Brooke, born Abt. 1612 in Brookeborough, Fermanagh, Ireland; died Abt. 1671 in Ireland.


      7104. I Thomas Glascocke, born June 06, 1613 in Moreton, Essex Co., England; died June 03, 1667 in Lancaster Co., VA. He was the son of 14208. II Henry Glascocke and 14209. Margery Fitch. He married 7105. Jane Juett June 17, 1634 in St. Mary's Whitechapel in the Co. of Middlesex, England.

      7105. Jane Juett, born Abt. 1615 in Essex, England; died Abt. 1667 in Lancaster Co., VA.

Notes for I Thomas Glascocke:
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.



     
Children of Thomas Glascocke and Jane Juett are:
  i.   Gregory Glascocke, born Abt. 1634 in Moreton, Essex Co., England; died 1689 in Lancaster Co., VA; married Mary Newman(?) or Fauntleroy (?) January 17, 1666 in Rappahonnock, VA; born Bef. 1635 in England; died Unknown.
  Notes for Gregory Glascocke:
Gregory lived near his brother Thomas. Most of the Glascocks living in this area of the country are descended from Gregory and Thomas Glascock.
He is listed as a "Rappahannock Planter". (Source: J. A. Snyder through: theGlasscockFamilySocietyoftheUSA@groups.msn.com)

It is assummed that Gregory was the oldest son because he inherited his father's land.
In 1667, Gregory deeded the Morattico Creek land to this brother, Thomas.
In 1677, listing himself as a Rappahannock planter, he gave power of attorney to his brother Thomas "of ye same county planter", in the settlement of an estate.

Page 161 of The Glas(s)cocks of England and America by Rev. Lawrence A. Glassco:
"Gregory's Wife - His wife may have been Mary, dau. of Capt. Alex. Newman of Richmond Co. - according to one researcher's theory. A will proved in 1690 states that their dau. Ann Glascock received 100 acres of land from Capt. Newman, and that Thos. Glascock was an overseer for Capt. Newman in the will. That she may have been Mary Fauntleroy was an earlier "research guess" which has been disproven."

"Our narrative has been concerned so far with that branch of the Glascock family which continued
to live at the manor house at "Indian Banks". Now we will turn the light of inquiry on the other
branch of Thomas' male descendants -- those who were of the family of Gregory (b.1643) and
Thomas(b.1671). Thomas (b.1671) was declared "arrived at full age" at the June 1,1692, sitting of the Richmond County Court, so we assume that he was born before 1671. He had married(about 1689) Sarah, daughter of William Stone. Thomas lived on Farnham Creek, the next creek up the Rappahannock about 3 miles north of "Indian Banks". Thomas was a first cousin of
the Col. George Glascock who lived at "Indian Banks". Presumably he lived in harmony in the
community and was building up a tobacco plantation and estate on Farnham Creek.
In 1715 he acted on a committee to take depositions in a property question. In 1718 & l719 he was appointed surveyor of the highway from Capt. Tarpley's house over the Morattico Hill to the main road. Then tragedy struck. On November 5,1723, Thomas "made an assault on the Body of William Forrester by stabbing him with a knife by means whereof the said Forrester Instantly Dyed". No more details about the killing are available. Life was a good deal cheaper and men were more violent in those days than now. Perhaps Thomas had a very good reason or perhaps not. Perhaps the knowledge of all of the facts would reveal ample justification for his violent action or perhaps
not. At any rate, after the incident he fled from his home and apparently was never heard from again
by his family. His son Gregory, who was 23 at the time, accompanied him on his escape and was later arraigned by a Richmond County Court as an accessory after the murder. After hearing the testimony of Gregory and his brothers, John(age 24) and Thomas Junior (age 18), the court found
that "the principall not being attainted, noe. Indictment will lye against the Accessory, therefore the sd Gregory Glascock is Admitted to Baille".

The following is a copy of the testimony at the hearing:
"Gregory Glascock being examined saith that on the fifth of November last about midnight he set
off in a boat with his father, THOMAS GLASCOCK from their Landing (on Farnham Creek) and the next morning his father put him on Shoar the other side of the River about five miles below Morattico Creek,and then he travelled to Gloucester Town, and went over the Ferrey to York Town, and from thence went to Hampton Town, and soe went over James River and Landed at one Willsons, and from thence Traveled Through Norfolk Town and went to a place Called the Northwest Landing,
and then came back about Two Days before Christmas to the house of one Nehomiah Jones, and from thence made the best of his way home."

The murder and the subsequent flight of Thomas (perhaps eventually south to the Carolinas)
left his wife, Sarah, with six children on the Farnham Creek property. She probably maintained the family home for a time in the best way she could manage, but "King" Robert Carter took possession of Thomas' real estate, negroes and other property which was forfeited to the government. Carter's will in 1726 states, "if my son John (Carter) comes to enjoy the said Glascock's lands under a good title that then he further consider the said Glascock's children in such proportion as he shall think
fitt, or otherwise gratify them according to his discretion." The next generation of Glascocks in
Thomas' line apparently had to start all over again on their own. They moved north from their
old home in the Tidewater and established large families and many descendants in northern Virginia in the Piedmont area.
(Source: "TheGlascocks of England and America", by Lawrence A. Glasco)








  3552 ii.   II Thomas Glascock, born Abt. 1645 in Moreton, Essex Co., England; died Bef. 1701 in Lancaster Co., VA; married Anne Nichols Abt. 1672 in Lancaster Co., VA.
  iii.   John Glascocke, born Abt. 1646 in Moreton, Essex Co., England; died Abt. 1695 in North Farnham Parish, VA.


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