Complied June 12, 2025 - Person Sheet
Complied June 12, 2025 - Person Sheet
Birthabt 1744, Little Britain, Lancaster, Pennsylvania2815
Death3 Jul 1820, White County, Tennessee2816 Age: 76
BurialOld Shady Grove Cememtery, Sparta, White, Tennessee
Memofind-a-grave
FatherRobert Glenn (1706-1761)
MotherMargaret Logan? (1710-1770)
Spouses
Birth1746, Pennsylvania2817
Death23 Aug 1826, White County, Tennessee Age: 80
FatherDavid Phillips Likely (1728-1800)
MotherMargaret Roberts Likely (1726-)
ChildrenRobert B. (1765-1843)
Notes for Robert Glenn
Long note on Glenn family posted on Ancestry:
Crossing a creek into the backwoods of White Co., TN in the 1980's is still an adventure. You don't cross in a car, truck, or even a jeep, but on foot! After walking up over the creek bank and through some brush, you come to an open area and then more brush. Your local guide tells you this is it. What is it? The final resting place of Robert and Elizabeth Glenn - the Old Shady Grove Cemetery. The broken tombstones reveal that Robert was buried in this cattle inhabited burial ground 3 Jul 1820,aged 76 years, and that his wife Elizabeth dies and was placed there 23 Aug 1826, at age 80.
So Robert Glenn was born in 1744, 32 years before the American Revolution began. The inquisitive mind asks where did they, our forefathers, come from? What of Elizabeth Glenn and her parents, etc?
In fact, Robert Glenn (1744 - 1820) was liekly born in the colony of Pennsylvania. Strong evidence points to our Robert being a younger son of one Robert Glenn, Sr. who dies in 1761 in Little Britain Township, Lancaster, Co., PA The elder Robert left a will in which he mentioned his wife, and four children by name: Joseph, John, Jean, and Elizabeth. But he also mentions his "three youngest sons," though not by name. We have reason to believe that those "three youngest sons" were: our Robert, Alexander, and James Glenn.
Little Britain Township of Lancaster, PA is only a few miles from the Maryland border and not too far from the ports of Philadelphia, PA and New Castle, Delaware. It is likely that our family had immigrated to America through one of these entry ways in the late 1720's or early 1730's.
The Glenn name first appears in Pennsylvania in 1729 in Chester Co. which is directly east of Lancaster Co. Through the 1730's and 1740's a number of Glenn's appear as landowners and tenants in Chester Co., and in 1752 a Joseph Glenn was granted 100 A in Little Britain Township of Lancaster Co. This Joesph was likely a brother or possibly even the father of the Robert Glenn who died in 1761. Besides being a farmer Robert Sr., was also a weaver, indicating the likelyhood thaat he had lived in a village or city in Scotland or Ireland before coming to America.
History tells us that the Glenns and hundreds of other immigrants in Southern Pennsylvania were considered, legally, to be squatters with no right to the land they were on, and since the land itself was poor and generally unsuited for farming, the family would not remain here very long after Robert Sr.'s death in 1761.
For a time, Robert, Sr.'s oldest son Joseph (b 1738 - ?) tried his hand at farming the so-called "plantation," but by the year 1764 he was in Chester Co. trying to live as a weaver. In the late 1760's our Robert seems to have taken over the land of his father. He married Elizabeth Phillips in 1763/65. Their first children: Robert B., Joseph, Margaret, and Elizabeth were likely born in Lancaster Co., PA. Unsuccessfull in trying to farm in Little Britain, Robert Glenn and his young family joined in a movement to settle better open land to the south.
By 1770 Robert had left the "plantaion" in PA in the hands of his brother John and moved to Orange Co., NC. Another of Robert's brothers, Alexander, and family also moved to the same area.
When Orange Co. was divided in 1777, Robert was in the portion that became Caswell Co. On 2 Oct 1777 when a tax assessment was taken of the new county, Robert had the following evaluation: 0 A, 1 improvement (meaning a cleared land area and dwelling), 0 slaves, 3 horses, 6 head of cattle, and 8 shillings in hand. By 1779 when tax time came again, he and his growing family were in Lincoln Co., NC. They likely left Caswell Co. because they could not get a claim to the land there. In Licoln Co. Robert would finally find the land and elbow room he wanted for his wife and eight children.
Whatever the reasons may be, the Glenns were in Lincoln Co. by 20 Apr 1780 (the first specifically authenticated date) when Robert served on jury duty. On 2 Mar 1782, he witnesses a deed transferring two slaves. Robert was not the first Glenn in this area, for as early as 1767 a William Glenn and his wife Janet (maiden name, Sharp) recieved a royal grant to hundreds of acres on the South Fork of Catawba River in then Tyron Co. This William Glenn would die as a British prisoner in Mar 1779 at the Battle of Briar Hill.
In 1775 a John Glenn had come to the Tyron Co. area from VA, settled on the "waters of Crowders Creek," then moved east to the South Fork of the Catawba River where he would remain until his death in 1828 at the age of 102. He was a Revolutionary solider.
There is no evidence to connect to either William or John except that they settled in adjacent areas and happened to have the same last name.
Where is Lincoln, Co., Robert, wife Elizabeth (b 1746) and their children first settled has not yet been determined but it is likely that they lived on a portion of land they would eventually be granted by the new state of NC. The original order by the state to survey land for Robert Glenn was issued 14 Oct 1783. By 26 May 1785, the survey had been completed and consisted of "206 A on the waters of Buffalo Creek joining John Carpenter and Alexander Reynold's land and including the Widow Davis' improvements." In Aug 1787, this land officially became the possession of Robert Glenn. There can be little question that by this just mentioned date, Mr. Glenn and his family were at home on this 206 A plot - as they in fact had probably been since they first came to Lincoln Co. some eight years earlier.
In Spet 1787 a son was born to Robert and Elizabeth. His name was James and he would be the anscestor of the Glenns that came to Marshall Co., TN and eventually to Missouri.
Crossing a creek into the backwoods of White Co., TN in the 1980's is still an adventure. You don't cross in a car, truck, or even a jeep, but on foot! After walking up over the creek bank and through some brush, you come to an open area and then more brush. Your local guide tells you this is it. What is it? The final resting place of Robert and Elizabeth Glenn - the Old Shady Grove Cemetery. The broken tombstones reveal that Robert was buried in this cattle inhabited burial ground 3 Jul 1820,aged 76 years, and that his wife Elizabeth dies and was placed there 23 Aug 1826, at age 80.
So Robert Glenn was born in 1744, 32 years before the American Revolution began. The inquisitive mind asks where did they, our forefathers, come from? What of Elizabeth Glenn and her parents, etc?
In fact, Robert Glenn (1744 - 1820) was liekly born in the colony of Pennsylvania. Strong evidence points to our Robert being a younger son of one Robert Glenn, Sr. who dies in 1761 in Little Britain Township, Lancaster, Co., PA The elder Robert left a will in which he mentioned his wife, and four children by name: Joseph, John, Jean, and Elizabeth. But he also mentions his "three youngest sons," though not by name. We have reason to believe that those "three youngest sons" were: our Robert, Alexander, and James Glenn.
Little Britain Township of Lancaster, PA is only a few miles from the Maryland border and not too far from the ports of Philadelphia, PA and New Castle, Delaware. It is likely that our family had immigrated to America through one of these entry ways in the late 1720's or early 1730's.
The Glenn name first appears in Pennsylvania in 1729 in Chester Co. which is directly east of Lancaster Co. Through the 1730's and 1740's a number of Glenn's appear as landowners and tenants in Chester Co., and in 1752 a Joseph Glenn was granted 100 A in Little Britain Township of Lancaster Co. This Joesph was likely a brother or possibly even the father of the Robert Glenn who died in 1761. Besides being a farmer Robert Sr., was also a weaver, indicating the likelyhood thaat he had lived in a village or city in Scotland or Ireland before coming to America.
History tells us that the Glenns and hundreds of other immigrants in Southern Pennsylvania were considered, legally, to be squatters with no right to the land they were on, and since the land itself was poor and generally unsuited for farming, the family would not remain here very long after Robert Sr.'s death in 1761.
For a time, Robert, Sr.'s oldest son Joseph (b 1738 - ?) tried his hand at farming the so-called "plantation," but by the year 1764 he was in Chester Co. trying to live as a weaver. In the late 1760's our Robert seems to have taken over the land of his father. He married Elizabeth Phillips in 1763/65. Their first children: Robert B., Joseph, Margaret, and Elizabeth were likely born in Lancaster Co., PA. Unsuccessfull in trying to farm in Little Britain, Robert Glenn and his young family joined in a movement to settle better open land to the south.
By 1770 Robert had left the "plantaion" in PA in the hands of his brother John and moved to Orange Co., NC. Another of Robert's brothers, Alexander, and family also moved to the same area.
When Orange Co. was divided in 1777, Robert was in the portion that became Caswell Co. On 2 Oct 1777 when a tax assessment was taken of the new county, Robert had the following evaluation: 0 A, 1 improvement (meaning a cleared land area and dwelling), 0 slaves, 3 horses, 6 head of cattle, and 8 shillings in hand. By 1779 when tax time came again, he and his growing family were in Lincoln Co., NC. They likely left Caswell Co. because they could not get a claim to the land there. In Licoln Co. Robert would finally find the land and elbow room he wanted for his wife and eight children.
Whatever the reasons may be, the Glenns were in Lincoln Co. by 20 Apr 1780 (the first specifically authenticated date) when Robert served on jury duty. On 2 Mar 1782, he witnesses a deed transferring two slaves. Robert was not the first Glenn in this area, for as early as 1767 a William Glenn and his wife Janet (maiden name, Sharp) recieved a royal grant to hundreds of acres on the South Fork of Catawba River in then Tyron Co. This William Glenn would die as a British prisoner in Mar 1779 at the Battle of Briar Hill.
In 1775 a John Glenn had come to the Tyron Co. area from VA, settled on the "waters of Crowders Creek," then moved east to the South Fork of the Catawba River where he would remain until his death in 1828 at the age of 102. He was a Revolutionary solider.
There is no evidence to connect to either William or John except that they settled in adjacent areas and happened to have the same last name.
Where is Lincoln, Co., Robert, wife Elizabeth (b 1746) and their children first settled has not yet been determined but it is likely that they lived on a portion of land they would eventually be granted by the new state of NC. The original order by the state to survey land for Robert Glenn was issued 14 Oct 1783. By 26 May 1785, the survey had been completed and consisted of "206 A on the waters of Buffalo Creek joining John Carpenter and Alexander Reynold's land and including the Widow Davis' improvements." In Aug 1787, this land officially became the possession of Robert Glenn. There can be little question that by this just mentioned date, Mr. Glenn and his family were at home on this 206 A plot - as they in fact had probably been since they first came to Lincoln Co. some eight years earlier.
In Spet 1787 a son was born to Robert and Elizabeth. His name was James and he would be the anscestor of the Glenns that came to Marshall Co., TN and eventually to Missouri.