Bernard Glenn (1757–1831), planter and public official, was a native of Virginia. A low-ranking officer in the Virginia militia “on State establishment” during the Revolutionary War, after hostilities ended Virginia awarded him a military land warrant for 2,666 acres on the Cumberland River in what would later become the state of Kentucky. Following its admission into the Union in 1792, however, Kentucky prohibited the location within its boundaries of land warrants issued by any other state. Although Glenn took his case to Congress in 1802, his claim was apparently not honored during his lifetime, either at the federal or state level. Having relocated permanently during the 1780s to Union County, South Carolina, he served as a justice of the peace and sat in the state’s House of Representatives for five consecutive terms, 1806–15. Glenn owned seven slaves in 1800, twenty-nine in 1820, and thirty-six in 1830. Shortly after his death his personal estate was valued at just over $18,000 (BDSCHR description begins Walter B. Edgar and others, eds., Biographical Directory of the South Carolina House of Representatives, 1974– , 5 vols. description ends , 4:235; John H. Gwathmey, Historical Register of Virginians in the Revolution [1938], 311; JHR description begins Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States description ends , 4:256 [21 Dec. 1802]; ASP, Public Lands, 1:119; DNA: RG 29, CS, S.C., Union District/Co., 1800–30; Union Co. Probate Court records; gravestone in Rice Cemetery, Union Co.).