Early life James Glasgow, the son of a
Scottish minister, Reverend James Patrick Glasgow and his wife, Martha Jones, of Cecil County, Maryland. He was born in the Colony of Maryland and educated at the
College of William & Mary. After graduation he served as an accounting and corresponding clerk for an import-export house in Suffolk, Virginia. Service record: • Adjutant in the
Dobbs County Regiment of the
North Carolina militia (1776) • Major in the Dobbs County Regiment (1776-1777) • Colonel in the Dobbs County Regiment (1777-1778, 1779-1780) • Secretary of State (1776-1799) In 1791, while he was still serving as Secretary of State, the state legislature named a county after him. He resigned in disgrace after a scandal known as the "
Glasgow Land Fraud." After his resignation, the county was renamed
Greene County.
Personal life His daughter, Nancy Glasgow, married
Willoughby Williams, a member of the
North Carolina House of Representatives, and later remarried to
Joseph McMinn, who served as
Governor of Tennessee from 1815 to 1821. == References ==