Statewide County AlArchives News.....Mr. Barclay’s Consulship November 2 1893
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The Constitution: Atlanta, GA
The Constitution: Atlanta, GA
Thursday Morning Paper, p 2
November 2, 1893


Mr. Barclay’s Consulship
	There is an interesting story apropos of the nomination of John J. 
Barclay, of Wheeler, Ala., to be United States consul general to Tangiers.  
Mr. Barclay will fill the place his great-grandfather filled in 1786, when, in 
connection with Commodore Decatur, he made the famous treaty between the 
United States and the Barbary powers.  The elder Barclay was a Virginian and a 
great friend of Presidents Washington and Jefferson.  Mr. Barclay has all of 
the papers relating to his ancestor’s mission.  They are one hundred and six 
years old, but are in good state of preservation, and are legible.  George 
Washington’s name is signed as president, and that of Thomas Jefferson as 
secretary of state.  Among the papers are the original commission to the elder 
Barclay, the original of the Arabic treaty made by Barclay and a passport from 
King Louis, of France.  A rare seal of the United States is affixed to the 
commission.  There are also private commendatory letters from Thomas 
Jefferson.  Mr. John J. Barclay is familiar with Tangiers and the country to 
which he goes.  His father spent many years in Jerusalem, and while there 
wrote “The City of the Great King.”  Mr. Barclay, Jr., learned Greek, Arabic 
and French while a child, and speaks them all fluently.  His father was, 
during Buchanan’s administration, United States consul and also, for a time, 
Russian consul to the island of Cypress.  Mr. Barclay was born in Virginia, 
and says he supposes he owes his appointment to hereditary right.  He is now 
fifty-eight years old.


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