Barclays of New York

THE following pages have grown out of the author's search
for the ancestry of his great grandfather, Thomas Bar-
clay, of St. Mary's County, Maryland. The interesting
matter that came to his notice during the course of that search
invited frequent digressions from his own line, until his notes
were charged with a variety of material which he felt should be
preserved in some permanent form. He accordingly determined
to print privately and at his own expense what appears in the
following pages; but so many requests have come to him for
copies of the book that he has recently decided to place it upon
the market at somewhat less than cost, and thus make it readily
accessible to all who care for it.
He is conscious that in a work of this kind, to which he has
been able to give only his leisure hours, errors are bound to creep
in, — particularly in tables of descent where it is sought to make
a record of precise dates of birth, death and marriage ; and he
earnestly invites the correction of errors and the supplying of
omitted names and dates.
He wishes, too, to express his thanks to the many who have
aided him with the material used, and in particular to express his
appreciation of the courtesy shown him by Mr. Robert H.
Kexby, the librarian of the New York Historical Society, by
Mr. Beale, the Register of the Friends Records in Eustace
Street, Dublin, and by the Officials of the Record Office in Dublin.
New York, January 2, 1904.
R. B. M.