Note from Curator Pam Wilson (January 2020): Jeremiah has sometimes been ambiguated with John or James Glenn in terms of death dates and children. All facts need to be verified with documentation. Also, two Jeremiah Glenns of the same generation seem to be conflated on many family trees, creating data conflicts which may need to be resolved by examining the microfilms of the remaining Louisa County will books (some were destroyed in the burning of Richmond during the Civil War) or on microfilm.

Also, the identity of his wife as Hannah Thompson is questionable and needs evidence to support it. His brother James is also said to have married a Hannah Thompson, and it seems that her name may have become associated with Jeremiah in one of the above-mentioned mixups. A number of children named in James' will were attached to the tree under Jeremiah. However, it appears that a daughter of Robert Thompson and Judith Key married one of the Glenn brothers, and based on finding two different exact birthdates (on in 1696 and one in 1698) for Hannah Thompsons, there may possibly have been cousins by the same name with ages close together who married the two Glenn brothers. I have not yet identified parents for the second Hannah. I've found three different death dates among the two Hannahs--1752, 1763, and 1794. The correct birth and death dates need to be researched and assigned to the right Hannah.

An example of the confusion found regarding Jeremiah Glenn is the following from https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/glenn/1635/, which provides both a 3 March 1763 death date (source not provided, perhaps a cemetery record) and a reference to a Will Book entry dated Nov. 28, 1774, recorded Apr. 10, 1775:

1.4.1 Jeramiah GLENN

Birth: abt 1709, New Kent Co, VA

Death: 3 Mar 1763, Louisa Co, VA Burial: Mar 1763, St. Martin Parish, Hanover Co, VA

Took out a grant from the English government for 200 acres on both sides of the south fork of Cub Creek, which was located in Hanover Co, VA. Cub Creek is a tributary of the South Anna River, now located in Louisa Co.

Louisa was formed out of Hanover in 1742. Records are available in this Co, Many from Hanover and earlier counties were destroyed by fire, war, etc.

Will dated Nov. 28, 1774, recorded Apr. 10, 1775, Vol. II p. 220, Louisa Co, VA. He apparently outlived his son, Tyre, by a short time.1

Spouse: (GLENN)

Children:

• Lucy (1731-)
• Worthen (Worsham) (1734-1810)
• Sarah (1737-)
• Tyre (Tyree) (1740-1775)
• William (1744-)
• Elizabeth (1749-)
• Beverly (1750-1817)
• Susanna (1752-)

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The following is excerpted from "Glenn" [Information compiled by Karen Bray Keeley, adapted for the internet by Sandra Shuler Bray, published on Ancestry.com by "olddiggns" on 27 Feb 2012 [9640409d-5825-4e15-9f99-12c223bce2c3], then copy-edited, sourced, and reformatted for Geni.com by Curator Pam Wilson, 2020. Attached as a Source document.

The earliest Glenn ancestor we have been able to absolutely prove is Jeremiah Glenn (1709-1774), and the earliest proven date we have of our Glenn ancestors in America is Sept. 2, 1730, when Jeremiah Glenn took out a grant from the English government for 200 acres on both sides of the South Fork of Cub Creek, which at that time was located in Hanover County, Virginia. (This would make Jeremiah born not later than 1709, as he would have to have been at least 21 years old in 1730 in order to take out the land grant). Cub Creek is a tributary of the South Anna River, and is now located in Louisa County, Virginia. Louisa County was formed from the western part of Hanover County in 1742.

One researcher, Mrs. [Jeannette May] Christopher, who wrote Glenn and Kin [(Genealogy Publishing Service; 2nd edition, 1994; see https://www.amazon.com/Descendants-Hanover-County-Virginia-1717-199...)], believes that John Glen was probably the father or grandfather of Jeremiah Glenn of Virginia. She wrote that on 15 Dec 1655, Dr. Giles Mode received a patent for 1000 acres of land on the NE side of the Mattaponi River in New Kent County, for the transportation of 20 persons to Virginia. Among these twenty was a "JOHN GLAN." (New Kent County is about 50 miles downstream from Louisa County, on the same river). In 1666, John Glen owned land near a branch of Warrani Swamp in New Kent County. Also in the 1600's there was a "ROBERT GLAN" (who was actually the earliest Glenn listed, and could have just as likely been the father or grandfather of Jeremiah Glenn, and perhaps a brother of "JOHN GLAN"). He was one of 22 persons transported by Nathaniel Bacon who received land in Isle of Wight County, 23 March 1652, which was also nearby the other counties mentioned here (Isle of Wight County is on the south side of the James River, about 40 miles southeast of New Kent County).

Jeannette Christopher wrote that the following Glenns appear to belong to the second generation:

ROBERT GLENN, who in 1690 owned land in Middlesex County (about 20 miles northeast of New Kent County); MARY GLENN, who on 18 Apr 1699, according to an old Blackwell Family Bible, married James Blackwell (bapt. 1680) of York County, Virginia (about 20 miles southeast of New Kent County);

JOSEPH GLEN, who in 1701 was headright on the patent of Anthony Winston in St. Peter's Parish, New Kent County. Under the headright system of Virginia, a person was granted 50 acres of land per "head" for the people for whom he paid the fare to cross the Atlantic; for example, if he paid the fare for himself, his wife, and 5 children, he would receive 350 acres (this is a way to determine how many children were in the family when they got the grant). In order to receive more land, often men would pay the fare for several unrelated persons who wanted to emigrate to America but couldn't afford the passage. Many men traveled back and forth several times from Virginia to England and recruited others to emigrate, in order to receive more land. For this reason, the date a headright was issued to a person isn't always when they first came to America.)

JAMES GLEN, who in 1717-1719 owned land adjacent to the North Anna River in St. Paul's Parish, New Kent County. He is listed in the Vestry Book of St. Paul's Parish from 1719-1724, in connection with John Glenn. In 1725-1731, he owned land further upstream along the same (North Anna) river, in Hanover County. He is probably the same James of St. Martin's Parish, Hanover County, who purchased land in 1739 on Great Guinea Creek, St. James Parish, Goochland County (southeast of Hanover), an area that later became Cumberland County. He left a will in 1762 in Hanover County naming wife Hannah (maiden name probably Thompson) and children:

• • Gideon
• • Nehemiah
• • Nathan
• • James
• • Gemima Glen Symes
• • Hannah Glen Austin
• • Mary Glen Hopkins
• • Elizabeth Glen Byars
• • Anna Glen
• • Thompson Glen
• • Keziah Glen Harris
• • Sarah Glenn Dabney.

Also named were grandchildren Frances Harris, Judy Harris, Anna Glen Harris, Molley Glen Harris, Peter Harris, and Tyre Harris.

JOHN GLEN is mentioned as owning lands in 1714 on the north side of South River, St. Paul's Parish, New Kent County, and in Hanover County on South Anna River and Turkey Creek in 1721-1725. In the Vestry Book of St. Paul's Parish, Hanover County, there are many refences to at least two men named John Glenn, beginning in 1708 and extending to 1771 (probably the second John was the son of the first). John Glenn served as a surveyor of roads, was a land processioner, and was elected to the Church Vestry in 1711.

"Bearing in mind the close proximity in time and place of the above Glenns, John Glen (who immigrated to Virginia in 1655) is the probable progenitor of the Glenn family herein described."

She also places Jeremiah Glenn as probably a brother of the above Robert, Mary, James, John, and Joseph; but since his land patent was taken out 15-30 years later than theirs, it is more probable that Jeremiah was of the third generation in America.

In the LDS ancestral file, James Glenn (above) and Jeremiah Glenn are mistakenly identified as the same person, and James Glenn's children (named in the will in 1762 in Hanover County, VA mentioned above) are mistakenly placed as Jeremiah Glenn's children by a first wife, while Jeremiah's actual children (named in his will in Louisa County, VA in 1774) are placed as his children by another (second) wife. It seems clear that this information is in error. Even though similar given names are carried among their descendants (including the unusual name Tyre or Tyree), James and Jeremiah Glenn were clearly two different men, probably either brothers, or else uncle and nephew to one another. As mentioned above, there was also an earlier Tyree Glenn in Virginia, who was born about 1704-1715, and was almost certainly a brother of our ancestor Jeremiah Glenn. This Tyree Glenn settled in Lunenberg County, Virginia (about 70 miles southwest of Hanover and New Kent Counties), and his children, born 1742-1752, were:

• • Jeremiah Glenn
• • John Glenn
• • William Glenn
• • Anne Glenn
• • Sarah Glenn

There is a probable connection between the Glenn family and the Tyree family in early Virginia, since our Glenns passed down the name Tyree as a first name. Alexander Tyree served as a juror with John Glenn in New Kent Co. VA in the early 1650's.

England allowed her subjects to take out two types of land grants. One was a patented grant, given to those who were financially able to pay for their land, or who had proper credentials, etc. The other was called a lease grant, whereby the land was more or less leased to them, pending their ability to pay for it. Jeremiah Glenn's 1730 land grant was a patented grant, so by this we know by that he was a man recognized by the crown as being able to meet his obligations.

This was a period of American History, about 50 years before the Revolutionary War, when Virginia was being colonized by England for the purpose of building into profitable enterprises the vast natural resources of Virginia, to help solve England's economic conditions at home. Without a labor force the land was worthless, so the proprietors were trying to encourage as many people as they could to settle there.

The records in this part of Virginia are not as complete as in other sections of the state, for this was the scene of much plundering and fighting during the Civil War. In 1865 the Court House in Richmond, Virginia, the county seat of Hanover County, was burned, and the records were destroyed. For this reason we do not have the name of Jeremiah Glenn's wife; but we know that they had at least eight children:

• • Lucy Glenn Bobitt
• • Worham (Or Worthen/Wortham/Worsham) Glenn
• • Sarah Glenn Harris
• • **Tyre Glenn
• • William Glenn
• • Elizabeth Glenn Dollins
• • Beverly (Male)
• • Susannah Glenn .

Jeremiah Glenn left a will in Louisa County, Virginia in 1774. From other records, we know that Jeremiah's four sons and at least one daughter, Susannah, left Virginia and went to North Carolina, near where other relatives had settled.

Will dated 28 Nov. 1774, Provenin 1775 Louisa County, Virginia.

In the LDS ancestral file, James Glenn (above) and Jeremiah Glenn are mistakenly identified as the same person, and JamesGlenn's children (named in the will in 1762 in Hanover County, VA mentioned above) are mistakenly placed as Jeremiah Glenn's children by a first wife, while Jeremiah's actual children (named in his will in Louisa County, VA in 1774) areplaced as his children by another (second) wife. It seems clear that this information is in error. Even though similar given names are carried among their descendants (including the unusual name Tyre or Tyree), James and Jeremiah Glenn were clearly two different men, probably either brothers, or else uncle and nephew to one another. As mentioned above, there was also an earlier Tyree Glenn in Virginia, who was born about 1704-1715, and was almost certainly a brother ofour ancestor Jeremiah Glenn. This Tyree Glenn settled in Lunenberg County, Virginia (about 70 miles southwest of Hanover and New Kent Counties), and his children, born 1742-1752, were:

Jeremiah Glenn,

JOHN GLENN,

WILLIAM GLENN,

ANNE GLENN, and

SARAH GLENN.

There is a probable connection between the Glenn family and the Tyree family in early Virginia, since our Glenns passed down the name Tyree as a first name. Alexander Tyree served as a juror with John Glenn in New Kent Co. VA in the early 1650's.

In the name of God Amen. I Jeremiah Glynn of Louisa County being of sound mind and memory blessed by God tho weak of body, do make and institute this my last Will and Testament in manner and form as followeth, In primas, I give and bequeath to my daughter Lucy Bobitt, to her and her heirs, forever, one Negroe woman named Fanny and all her increase, and all the rest of my estate which she has in her possession. Item, I give and bequeath to my son Wortham Glyn to him and his heirs forever, one Negroe man named Bristol and also the rest of my estate that he has in his possession. Item, I give and bequeath to my dauther Sarah Harris, to her and her heirs foreverone Negroe woman anmed Patt? and all the rest of my estate that she has in her possession. Item, I give and bequeath to my son Tyree Glyn, to him and his heirs forever, one Negroe boy named Harry and all the rest of my estate that he has in his possession. Item, I give and bequeath to my son William Glyn, to him and his heirs forever, one Negroe boy named David and the rest of my estate that he has in his possession. Item, I give and bequeath to my daughter Eliz.th Dollins, and her heirs forever one Negroe woman named Sarah and her increase, one cow and calf, and all the rest of my estate that she has in her possession. Item, I give and bequeath to my Beverly Glyn to him and his heirs forever, one Negroe boy named Nick also one other Negroe boy named Jack, and all the rest of my estate that he has in his possession, also one pair of spoon molds. Item, I give and bequeath to my daughter Susanna Glyn to her and her heirs forever one Negroe boy named James also one Negro girl named Cato, the best feather bed and furniture I have, a cow and calf, an iron pott, and twenty shillings cash. Item, I give and bequeath to my son Beverly Glyn all that part or parcel of land appurtaining unto the tract whereon I now live, and lying on the lower or East side of Cub Creek containg by estemation, one hundred and thirty acres. Item, It is my will and desire that all the rest of my estate, both real and personal that is not already mentioned, shall be sold and the profits ariseing from such sale, to be equally divided amongst the avoe legatees. Item, I constitute and appoint my son Beverly Glyn hole and sole Executor of this my last will and testament, as witness my hand and seal this 28th day of November anno domi: 1774.

Sign.d and acknowledg.d in presence of Tho.s Jackson, Wm. Jackson.

Jeremiah Glyn (seal)

Ancestry - Randall Hardy