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- I have a copy of a widely circulated manuscript, entitled, "Glidewell Background," that contains much detail of the Glidewell families in Wales and England and equally as much about the Glidewells who may have been ancestors of the line. The manuscript shows no author, no date, and no sources. Because the language is quite similar to that used in two publications by James Arthur Glidewell of Dallas, TX, I believe that he is the author. The publications are: (1) Compendium of American Genealogy, Vol III, 1942, p 564. (2) Biographical Souvenir of the State of Texas, 1889, p 830. F. A. Battey Co, Chicago, IL, 1889. If you check these, notice the differences and similarities between the reports.
"One son Daniel, with whom we are chiefly concerned, was born in 1656 at Gloucester. There may have been other children, but we know nothing about them. When Daniel was about 5 years old, his father was lost at sea. The widow, with Daniel and her other children, if any, moved to New Windsor, Conn., to live with relatives. Her parents were already dead, but an uncle, Obidiah Bruen, was a prominent and prosperous citizen of that town.
[There is no mention of a son Robert, only a son Daniel. In his article in the Amer.Compendium, he reported that Aymes had a son Robert who was Daniel's father.]
"Four or five years later, in 1666, Obidiah Bruen sold out of his land in Conn. and moved to New Jersey, where he became one of the proprietors of a rather large grant. Ann Bruen Glidewell died about this time, whether before the move or after is not known; but the orphan Daniel was taken to New Jersey, where he lived through his youth. Daniel must have inherited his father's love for the sea, for when he was 12, he shipped as a cabin boy on a sailing merchant ship, beginning a career that would last two decades until he was too broken by the hard life to continue in it. Thus, about 1690, Daniel Glidewell a broken old man at 35, retired to land in the Isle of Wight County, VA. Perhaps his last voyage had ended at Norfolk; or he may have met there the widow he was to marry, Susan (Bernard) Thomas, whom he married about 1696.
Daniel's son, Robert, is our ancestor. There may have been other children of this union, but we don't know about them. Robert was born about 1698. Daniel then took his family to Bristol Parish, Va, further inland, maybe to get away from the temptation of the sea. Here Daniel lived until his death in 1728, after having been stricken with paralysis, having lost his wife, and become a charge of the Parish." [end quote].
There was a Daniel Glidewell b 1655-1675 in MA, Sand-key’s sources say 1656, which agrees with James Arthur Glidewell's manuscript. There are many secondary sources placing Daniel in the lineage from Aymes to Nash, but as well as I can tell, all are based on one source: The Compendium of American Genealogy, Vol III, p 564, in a lineage of James Arthur Glidewell of Cooper, TX. This compendium is based upon interviews with well-known citizens of communities and is published without any other sources. It has been difficult for me to judge its authenticity, but it contains much that is supported in independent documents. Except for his parentage and birth, Daniel was in the records of the day, especially in the Bristol Parish Vestry Book and birth register, where, however, Daniel did not appear until he was an adult and judged to be an "idiot." The sources that report that Daniel was an "idiot," almost certainly were based on the Vestry Book’s account of him.
Stephanie Combs, a Glidewell genealogist in VA, sent many people this report about the appellation. E-mail message 2 May 1998 from Stephanie Combs: "... My mother [Elizabeth Glidewell b 1917 still living 1998), dau of Wm Agee (b 1871) son of Henry Thomas (b 1833)] knows much more than she should that is not written down! I have questioned her on things that were in the Bristol Parish Books and she has told me things like, 'Daniel was NOT an idiot! How dare them print such! Daniel had raised a large family before he fell down the well." ... I asked her how she knew things that happened so very long ago and was told that she, being the youngest, was sent upstairs to keep her grandmother (who was bedridden) occupied while her mother tried to keep house! All she heard was stories of the family!.. Some of what she says I can prove and some I can not." I think that the information is correct and could prove useful to others."
The Vestry Book refers to Daniel’s wife as "Elizabeth, not Susan (Bernard) Thomas, as named by James Arthur. Perhaps Susan was his first wife and Elizabeth was his second. So far I have no sources that inform on Daniel’s wife or wives.
This takes us through Daniel. Clearly, there was a man named Daniel Glidewell in Bristol Parish, VA who died in 1727 and left a widow, Elizabeth. That is all I can say for sure about him. Sandkey didn’t give any space to Daniel (I.e., Daniel Glidewell b 1556, Gloucester, MA). If you have more data, I would be pleased to have a reliable source on Daniel’s wife, on his death, and any children prior to his death.
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