Barclays of New York

24 A Mistaken Tradition.
Robert Barclay, the nephew, was in this country in 1774, and
in that year, at Trenton, met John Barclay the son of the emi-
grant to East New Jersey, and his two sons John and Charles.
In their presence, and presumably from information which was
afforded by them, he made in his own handwriting a memo-
randum of the then living descendants of John Barclay, second
of that name in New Jersey, with a statement of their respective
ages "for mention in the genealogy of our family," as Robert
Barclay himself put it. This memorandum, too, is still preserved
at Bury Hill and reads as follows :