Notes on Thomas Glascock III
Thomas Glascock did stab his Doctor, and his sons helped him escape:
From "The Glas(s)cock-Glassco Saga" by Lawrence A Glassco. 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 abvailabel. Perhaps the
knowledge of all the facts would reveal ample justificatgion for his violent action or perehaps not. At any ratge, after the incident he fled from his home and was
never heard from again. 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, Jr (age 18), the court found that "the principall
not being attainted, noe indictment will lye against the Accesory, therefore the sd Gregory Glascock is Admitted to Baille." The testimony: "Gregory Glascock
being examined saith that on the fifth of November last about midmight 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 art 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 subsequent flight of Thomas left his wife, Sarah, with six
children on Farnham Creek property. She managed as best she could, but "King" Robert Carter took possession of Thomas's 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 he then further consider the said Glascock's children in such proportion as he shall think fitt, or otgjherwise gratify them according to his descretion."Both
John and Peter Glascock settled on land belonging to John Carter in Prince William County which may indicate that Carter did honor the request of his father's
will.
"Indian Banks" built in 1699, is the ancestral home of the Glas(s)cock family. Located where the Morattico Creek and Lancaster Creek flow into the Rappahannock River in the state of Virginia. Current owner, James Durham, is a descendant of the
Glas(s)cock family.
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