Andrew Barclay (merchant)

Andrew Barclay (October 1719 – June 19, 1775) was a Scottish-American merchant who served as the 4th president of the Saint Andrew's Society of the State of New York.[1]

Andrew Barclay
4th President of the Saint Andrew's Society of the State of New York
In office
1759–1761
Preceded byJohn Morin Scott
Succeeded byWilliam Alexander
Personal details
BornOctober 1719
Albany, Province of New York, British America
DiedJune 19, 1775(1775-06-19) (aged 55)
Spouse(s)
Helena Roosevelt
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(m. 1737; died 1773)​
RelationsThomas Henry Barclay (nephew)
Children11
ParentsAnna Dorothea Drauyer Barclay
Rev. Thomas Barclay

Early life

Barclay was born in Albany in the Province of New York in British America in October 1719.[2] He was the son of Anna Dorothea (née Drauyer) Barclay, a Dutch speaker,[3] and the Rev. Thomas Barclay, a native of Scotland who became the first rector of St. Peter's Church in Albany.[4] Among his siblings was the Rev. William Henry Barclay, rector of Trinity Church in Manhattan[5] who graduated from Yale College in 1734 and was the father of Thomas Henry Barclay.[1]

Barclay, who was educated in Albany,[5] was the maternal grandson of Gertrud (née Van Schaick) Drauyer and Capt. Andries Drauyer, a Dane in the Dutch navy.[2]

Career

Following the death of his father in 1726, he was sent from Albany to New York City to learn business.[3] Barclay married into the prominent Roosevelt family, which allied him to the Dutch families of the province, and he became a successful merchant.[5] He owned a sugar house and works in conjunction with his brothers-in-law, Jacobus Roosevelt Jr. and Isaac Roosevelt.[5]

From 1759 to 1761, he served as the fourth president of the Saint Andrew's Society of the State of New York, of which he was a founder in 1756. He had previously served as vice-president from 1758 to 1759.[5]

Personal life

On June 14, 1737, Barclay was married to Helena Roosevelt (1719–1772), daughter of James Jacobus Roosevelt and Catharina Hardenbroek.[6] Helena's paternal grandfather was Nicholas Roosevelt (the last common ancestor of the Oyster Bay Roosevelts and the Hyde Park Roosevelts).[7] Together they lived at 45 Hanover Square and were the parents of eleven children:[5]

  • Thomas J. Barclay, who died unmarried.[2]
  • James Barclay (1750–1791), who married Maria van Beverhout.[8]
  • Andrew H. Barclay, who died young.[2]
  • Henry Barclay, who died unmarried.[2]
  • John Barclay, who married Catherine Barclay.[8]
  • Ann Dorothea Barclay (b. 1741), who married Theophylact Bache, brother of Richard Bache.[5]
  • Catherine Barclay, who married Augustus Van Cortlandt.[9]
  • Sarah Ann Barclay (1745–1806), who married Anthony Lispenard, son of Leonard Lispenard.[5]
  • Ann Margaret Barclay, who married Frederick Jay.[5]
  • Helena Barclay (d. 1775), who married Maj. Thomas Moncrieff of the British Army.[5]
  • Charlotte Amelia Barclay (1760–1778), who married Dr. Richard Bayley, the first professor of anatomy at Columbia College.[10]

His wife died in 1773,[11] and Barclay died on June 19, 1775.[2] In his 1763 will, he left his oldest son Thomas a special legacy of £100, in addition to the £600 he left to each living child.[5]

References
  1. Saint Andrew's Society of the State of New York (1911). Roster of Saint Andrew's Society of the State of New York with Biographical Data. D. Taylor. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
  2. Moffat, R. Burnham (1904). The Barclays of New York: who They are and who They are Not,-and Some Other Barclays. R. G. Cooke. p. 103. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  3. Bielinski, Stefan. "Andrew Barclay". exhibitions.nysm.nysed.gov. New York State Museum. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
  4. Bielinski, Stefan. "Thomas Barclay". exhibitions.nysm.nysed.gov. New York State Museum. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  5. Morrison, George Austin (1906). History of Saint Andrew's Society of the State of New York, 1756-1906. New York: Saint Andrew's Society of the State of NY. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
  6. Whatley, Harlan Douglas; Bruce, Duncan A.; Taylor, Randall Lenox (2008). Two Hundred Fifty Years, 1756-2006 : The History of Saint Andrew's Society of the State of New York. Saint Andrew's Society of the State of NY. ISBN 978-0615287515. OCLC 697545293. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
  7. Whittelsey, Charles Barney (1902). The Roosevelt Genealogy, 1649-1902. Hartford, Connecticut: Press of J.B. Burr & Company. p. 36. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
  8. Robison, Jeannie Floyd Jones; Bartlett, Henrietta Collins (1917). Genealogical Records: Manuscript Entries of Births, Deaths and Marriages Taken from Family Bibles, 1581-1917. Colonial Dames of the State of New York. p. 247. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
  9. Browning, Charles Henry (1891). Americans of Royal Descent: A Collection of Genealogies of American Families Whose Lineage is Traced to the Legitimate Issue of Kings. Porter & Costes. p. 402. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  10. "Dr. Richard Bayley Timeline – "A life of great usefulness"". blogs.shu.edu. A SHU Digital Humanities Project. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  11. Greene, Richard Henry (1867). The Todd Genealogy; Or, Register of the Descendants of Adam Todd, of the Names of Todd, Whetten, Brevoort, Coolidge, Bristed, Sedgwick, Kane, Renwick, Bull, Huntington, Dean, Astor, Bentzen, Langdon, Boreel, Wilks, De Nottbeck, Ward, Chanler, Cary, Tiebout, Bruce, Robbins, Waldo, Woodhull, Odell, Greene and Foster, with Notices and Genealogies of Many Persons and Families Connected with the Beforementioned Descendants. Wilbur & Hastings. p. 116. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
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