Barclays of New York

52 A Mistaken Tradition.
tion. The grandmother of Rev. Thomas Barclay's children, on
their mother's side, was a Van Schaick ; and it is not difficult to
imagine that in later years the Van Schaick connection might
carelessly have come to be regarded as on the father's side in-
stead of on the mother's. It would indeed have been odd had
the mother of Rev. Thomas and the mother of his wife both been
Van Schaicks, and yet no record of the coincidence have been
noted through all these years.
Gerritje Van Schaick was the daughter of Capt. Goosen
Gerritse Van Schaick by his second wife, Annatje Lievens. Ger-
ritje was born in 1657 and married Andries Drauyer on January
17th, 1674. 10
On March 2nd, 1699, Gerritje Van Schaick, wife of Andries
Drauyer, joined the Dutch Church in New York on certificate
from Copenhagen, and on the same day her husband, described
on the Church records (if the English translation be correct) as
"Rear Admiral of the King's fleet of Denmark and Norway,"
joined on a similar certificate. On February 28th, 1700, Johanna
Dorothea Drauyer, presumably the future wife of Rev. Thomas
Barclay of Albany, likewise joined the Dutch Church in New
York, upon confession of faith and belief. 11
,0 See N. Y. Gen. & Biog. Record, vol. II, p. 191.
"Ibid, vol. VII, p. 56-