Robert and Leah Barkley of Old Rowan County NC

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Robert and Leah Barkley of Old Rowan County, North Carolina

By Teddy L. Barclay Pope, Ed. D.

b. 1939, Hardin County, Texas

January 9, 2000

Robert Barkley (Barkly) of Rowan CO was married to Leah. Robert was born
est. between 1717 and 1723. Leah may have been Leah Madison ( first
choice) or Leah Todd (second choice). Or, Leah may have been Leah someone
else. It is not sure where Robert came from directly before he was in
Rowan County. He may have come straight from Scotland, he may have been
one of the Scot Irish, or he may have been the son and possibly grandson
of a Barkley family already in America for one or more generations. He
may have come with the migrants from New Jersey or he may have come from
the Barkleys of Virginia. He may have been the son of the widow Margaret
Kerr Barkley Brown of New Jersey and Mr. Barkley whose first name is not
known. There are several possibilities that have been explored about who
his parents may have been. These have been described in other research.

It is generally thought that Robert Barkley of Rowan County NC was
related to the Barclay family of Urie. Urie was in northern Scotland,
between Dundee and Aberdeenshire. (See the online Clan Map of Scotland.
Look to the right of the island, above Edinburgh. Look toward the water.
Look between Dundee and Aberdeenshire. There you will see Clan Barclay on
the map). Given below is a paper written by Robert Barclay descended from
Robert and Leah of Rowan County's son Robert that includes information
about the Barclays of Urie.

This seems an appropriate time to mention that the spelling of the
Barkley name had several variations. The two most widely used were
Barkley and Barclay. There were several others, including; Barkly,
Berkley, Barckley and some researchers remind to look at Bartley and Barr
when researching the Barclay family. The roll of the soldiers in the
American Revolution listed several various spellings. Many of these
Barkley/Barclay families more than one spelling within their own family,
and in some Barclay families, within the same generation and decade. This
was also done in Scotland. Incidences are known of brothers buried in the
same graveyard spelling their names differently. For this reason, give
the date of birth, any known middle name or initial and who the person
was married to further discriminate between various persons with the same
name when doing family research.

Mention is made here of the Scot Irish, who were the dominate group in
Old Rowan County NC, second being the Germans. The Scot Irish were Scot
families that had migrated from Scotland to Ireland to help settle it, at
the encouragement of the crown. They may have been there for several
decades or generations, but they were still Scot families. They were not
Irish. They were called the Scot Irish to distinguish between them and
the Scot families living in Scotland. The Barkleys lived primarily in
Scotland. Some had migrated into Ireland and into England. Some went to
other places, such as Russia, America and Canada. The Barkley who was the
Field Marshall of the Russian Army who turned back Napolean was Barkley
of the house of Towie. His family had migrated from Scotland to Russia, a
part of which was closer than American. Others later migrated from
Scotland to Canada. Their reason for migrating was generally to seek land
and ownership of land for the younger generation.

Old Rowan County, where Robert and Leah Barkley made their home, was part
of the Granville grant. Old Rowan County was later divided into several
counties. The part of Old Rowan County where the land of Robert Barkley
and Leah was located was later and now in Davidson County. Grandville was
the only English land owner in the North Carolina area that did not sell
his land back to the crown of England. The Barkley land was near or was
part of the Jersey settlement near the Yadkin River. Jersey settlement
was the home of a group of young people who came from Hopewell New
Jersey, and the Old School Baptist Church congregation, around 1755.
There has not been found a roll or census of these settlers, but a draft
copy might be made by searching the tax payers rolls for land owners in
the vacinity. The history of Jersey Church has much information about
this migration. The history of the founding of the settlement and the
church is available in a printed bound book for sale by the church
bookstore. The early minutes of the church were lost, the period of time
from 1756 to 1784. Among the first entries in the minutes that were begun
again in 1784 is mention of Samuel and Mary Barkley coming for membership
by experience. Samuel was Robert and Leah's eldest son. Mary was Samuel's
wife, Mary Davis.

The Jersey Baptist Church is located on Jersey Church Road, a two mile
road just off the main NC highway. It is at one end of the road and the
school is at the other end. Jersey settlement was about 9 miles from
Salisbury, the town that became the county seat of Old Rowan County.
Today, children in the area go to grade school at the school there and by
bus to Salisbury for high school.

Robert Barkley of Rowan County was first documented on paper when he
bought some cows from Mr. Pitts. That documentation was a recorded bill
of sale dated around 1759. The most impressive documentation about Robert
and Leah was the will of Robert Barkly. It named his sons and daughters
as well as the grandsons and some of the daughters husbands. Study of
this will gives the impression that Robert favored his younger children
by leaving them the bulk of his estate. In the will he left what seemed
to be smaller amounts to his daughters and elder sons. It is thought that
Robert had more property than that mentioned in the will earlier, and
perhaps gave other property to the older sons when they reached their
majority, and to the daughters when they married. The sums of money
mentioned seemed very small, but conversion tables show them to be fairly
substantial for that day in time. It is wished that Robert had given us
his wife Leah's last name in that will. It is noted that the spelling of
the family name on the will is Barkly. These things are also noted; 1)
Robert stated that he was sound of mind but weak in body, 2) Robert
signed his name with a mark, and 3) Robert left money for the education
of his grandson. The location and inventory of his property is further
identified, including Richards Creek.

Mention is made here of other Barkley families who were in Rowan County
at the same time that Robert and Leah and their family were there. There
was Margaret Barclay King, daughter of Margaret Kerr Barclay Brown of NJ,
and Margaret's husband Mr. King and their six children. There was the
younger Robert Barkley, married to Eleanor, from whose family descended
President of the United States Lyndon Baines Johnson from Texas, and Vice
President in the Truman Administration and Senator from Kentucky Alben
Barkley and Secretary of State Adali Stevenson. There was Henry Barkley,
who was the Barkley this writer thinks she recalls was married to the
Knox daughter from the family whose son in the later generation was
President of the United States James Knox Polk, of the Manifest Destiny
doctrine and annexation of Texas as well as the US War with Mexico.

In the research of Margaret Barclay of Waco which is dated 1964 and given
below, there is quite a bit about the landmarks around Robert Barkley of
Rowan County's property. There are also the names of some of his
neighbors and those with adjoining property and several men who witnessed
the will, who may have been relatives or neighbors. The paper Margaret of
Waco wrote is given below. Margaret was a descendant of Robert Barkley of
Rowan County through his son Walter and Walter's son James. Much of the
possible connection between Robert of Rowan County and John Barclay in
Dublin described in Margaret's paper has been deemed not likely and
unsubstantiated. Margaret wrote her paper for her family and put many
years and much effort into it, not to speak of expense. She made several
trips to Tyler County to interview various Barclay family members who
were descendants of Robert and Leah Barkley of Rowan County who were in
the fifth generation in Texas and sixth removed from Rowan County. She
also did research at Rowan County NC and with the historical society in
Richmond Kentucky. Although those Barclay people in Dublin referred to by
Margaret of Waco did exist, they were probably not the family of origin
of Robert Barkley of Rowan County.

The children of Robert and Leah Barkley of Old Rowan County NC were named
in the will to follow.

The Will of Robert Barkley

(Will Book C, pgs 121-122 Rowan Co, NC, probated 1788)

In the name of God, Amen. I Robert Barkly of the State of North Carolina
& County of Rowan threw the abounding mercy & goodness of God tho' weak
in body but yet of sound mind & disposing memory to make, constitute
ordain and declare this my last will & testament in manner and form
following viz:

First I will & order that all my debts & funeral charges be paid and
discharged by my Executors here after named.

I give and bequeath to my wife Leah Barkly during her lifetime the
plantation whereon I now live, the third of it & her bed & furniture &
one cow also the third part of my moveable estate in money.

I give and bequaeth to my eldest son Samuel all my rite of that land
lying on the north side of Richard's creek called Weaver Davis place and
ten pounds in money if he takes up my bond, if he does not, the land is
to be sold & the money to be divided among the rest of my children.

I give and bequeath to my son David Barkly eight shillings.

I give to my son John one sorrel mare & fifty pounds in money.

I give to my daughter Margaret eight shillings.

I give to my daughter Elizabeth one black cow & one feather bed &
furniture.

I give to my daughter Cathrine one spotted heifer and three sheep.

I give to my daughter Mary 1 red cow with a white face.

I give to my daughter Rachel one brindle cow.

I give and bequeath to my three sons Robert, William & Walter all the
remainder of my land together with the home plantation after they come to
the years of twenty and one to be equally divided amongst them if either
of them shall die before they come of age, it shall fall to the others
they all three are to be bound to trades of their own choosing.

I give and bequeath to my grandson Robert Barkly five pounds when he
comes of age.

I will that the Mill & land belonging to it and all the residue of my
estate to be sold and equally divided amongst my four daughters and
grandson, Elizabeth Cathrine, Mary, Rachel & Robert Todd. I will that
part of this should be given to my grandson Robert Todd in Schooling what
is allowed sufficient and I do hereby declare this and this alone to be
my last will & testament and do constitute & appoint Benjamin Todd &
Peter Todd Executors thereto in witness whereof I have hereunto set my
hand & seal this twenty fifth day of December in the year 1786

Robert Barkley (his mark & seal)

Witnesses: Joseph Todd

Thomas Todd

John Hendrickson

The Todd who married Robert and Leah Barkley's daughter was thought to be
the son of General Todd of Penn. He was thought to be from the family of
Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of President Abraham Lincoln, who came later.
Family tradition has it that Mary Todd married Abraham Lincoln against
her family's wishes, their being prominent and Lincoln showing little
promise of amounting to anything.

Robert Barkley was a captain in the American Revolution. The action seen
by the men of Rowan County likely included the battles around Kings
Mountain in South Carolina where the militia from the surrounding states
fought the Tories. The area was a hot bed of Revolutionary activity and
the Battle of King's Mountain a turning point of the Revolution in the
South. The patriot soldiers were said to have fought like hornets. Other
Barkleys in that battle were John and James Barkley and Mary Barkley's
husband Captain Thomas Cowan, members of the family of Robert Barkley of
Rowan County married to Eleanor, a younger man. As in all wars, there are
the militia and patriot soldiers of the surroundig area. These Barkleys
were not part of the Continental Army. They were patriot soldiers.

Robert made his livelihood by farming. These farms were referred to in
some books as plantations and also the Barkley farm was called a
plantation in Robert's will. There has been no evidence that Robert owned
any slaves. There is also no evidence that Robert was ever a Quaker,
although it is thought that he was related to and perhaps a direct
descendant of Robert Barclay of Urie, the Quaker Apologist. His whose
work and writings are well substantiated and in continuous print to this
day. These writings may be found online. When this writer contacted the
Quakers about the descendants of Robert Barclay, they said that his
direct descendants were all accounted for, and that they recommended that
she look toward the Barclay brother that founded Barclays Bank in
England. Robert, the Quaker Apologist who was a cohart of William Penn
and mentioned in Penn's writings, came to America to visit and look over
the land granted him in east Jersey by the crown for a debt owed him by
the kind. Robert did not stay in America, being well established in
Scotland. Robert the Quaker Apologist's brother John stayed in American
and oversaw the land in east Jersey. It is expected that land grants were
made to various personages by the king as payment for loans to the crown.

There is also no specific tangible evidence that Robert or others of his
age group were members of Jersey Baptist church. The church minutes for
the earlier years were lost. The inscriptions on many of the early
tombstones are not readable. There is a entire section of the grave yard
that was recently discovered to be used, although there were no markers
to survive the ravages of time. It is not known if the markers were of
wood and deteriated over time, or if the number of dead was concealed
from the Indians so that they would not know the strength of the numbers
of the living. There was quite a bit of Indian activity in the area
during that time.

The area in which Robert's farm was located did not see Revolutionary War
activity, although Redcoat troops were camped across the Yadkin River
with spy glasses aimed at the fertile Jersey farms. They were waiting for
the river to subside from the swell of heavy rains so that they might
cross it and go over into Jersey Settlement. After a lengthy wait, they
departed for places more accessible. Neither was there war activity in
the fertile Yadkin River Valley during the war between the states.

Robert died in 1788, some time after his will was written and witnessed
on Christmas Day of 1886. Leah lived for several years after that. The
sons and daughters of Robert Barkley of Rowan County and his wife Leah
migrated to various places after their parents death. Young sons Robert
b. 1772 and Walter b. 1774 went to Kentucky where Robert had land
holdings. Perhaps this Kentucky land was in the parcel of land purchased
by the men of Salisbury from the Cherokee. They commissioned Robert's
neighbor's son, Daniel Boone to establish a colony there. Or, perhaps the
Kentucky land was a pension for Robert's service in the American
Revolution. The online census of 1790 of Rowan County NC lists Samuel,
David and John Barkley, and Henry Barkley as heads of households. Henry
Barkley was not of the family of Robert and Leah Barkley of Rowan Co. He
was likely a kinsman.

Around 1801, son Robert married Mary Hubbard in Madison County Kentucky
and went with the Hubbard family into the Louisiana Purchase in the part
that became Missouri. Walter married Elizabeth McQueen in 1804 in Madison
County, Kentucky, when he was 30 years of age and she was 14. After
several moves into Tennessee and Alabama, The entire family of Walter and
Elizabeth Barkley went to east Texas carrying three generations to the
Mexican land that was to became Tyler County, Texas. They had heard about
Texas from Barkleys of Virginia cousin Sam Houston and his cousin David
Crockett. They settled in east Texas in the Menard district that became
Tyler County at statehood, first at Wolf Creek. Then various brothers
settled in the MT Hope, Peach Tree, Chester and the Woodvile area. James
settled in the Harmony area near Woodville. Woodville became the county
seat at statehood in 1846.In their old age, Walter and Elizabeth moved to
James property and built a separate house near James Log home that is a
historical home today and has been continously lived in by relatives to
this day.

The brothers and sisters of Elizabeth McQueen Barclay and her parents
also went to Tyler County in east Texas They were Milton, David (who died
when he went back to Alabama on a business trip), Spicey Mitilda McQueen
Taylor, Jane McQueen Bean and their first cousin Squire Cruise, son of
the McQueen sister and brother's mother, who was a Crews (as per McQueen
and Crews researcher Dona Porter in her books Medes and Bounds I, II and
III). The sons of Walter and Elizabeth were listed as having served in
the Army of the Republic from east Texas. Sometime after going to east
Texas, this Barkley family used the Barclay spelling of the family name.
Samuel and his wife Mary Davis went to Tennessee After their death, some
of their descendants went to east Texas also. They settled in Tyler
County and Falls County. Son John lived in Madison County, Kentucky,
where many descendants reside who were the children and descendants of
John's son Peter, born around 1795. As of this writing, it is unknown
what became of the son David. The son William, who was closer to the age
of Robert and Walter, died before reaching adulthood.

The daughters of Robert and Leah Barkley of Old Rowan County, and their
husbands and children, relocated to various other states. They had many
descendants who are less recognizable because they have different names
than Barkley, as are the descendants of later Barkley daughters, whose
children's surnames are not Barkley. Many of these grandchildren of
Robert and Leah Barkley helped settle the western states of America.

A fine effort has been made by the Barclay Bastion online and Clan
Barclay to accumulate the names of the descendants submitted to them of
the strain of Robert and Leah Barkley of Rowan County NC. Much
information and many articles about this line of the Barkley/Barclay
family may also be found on the link pages of the Tyler County
Genealogical Society, GenForum pages for Barclay and Barkley and the
Rowan County NC webpage.

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Clan Barclay

A brief History:

The Barclays came to England with the Norman Conquest and settled in
Gloucestershire. The Earls of Berkeley built Berkerley Castle as a
fortress in 1153. Some of the family went north to Scotland where they
settled in the north-east at Towie, Mathers, Gartley and Pierston in
Aberdeenshire. They also settled at Collairnie in Fife.

Lord Roger de Berchelai and his son John, came to Scotland in the retinue
of Margaret, sister of the Saxon Edgar the Aetheling, in 1067. She
married Malcolm III, who bestowed various lands on her followers,
including the lands of Towie to John de Berchelai.

Sir Walter de Berkeley was Chamberlain of Scotland in 1165.

Sir David Barclay was one of the chief associates of Robert the Bruce and
was present at most of his battles, particularly Methven where he was
taken prisoner.

In the 17th century a branch of the family was established at Urie near
Stonehaven in Kincardineshire.

The 1st Laird of Urie, Colonel David Barclay, was a professional soldier
who served in the armies of Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden. He
returned home when civil war broke out and became a colonel of a regiment
of horse fighting for the king. He retired from active service in 1647
and purchased the estate of Urie. After the restoration he was imprisoned
in Edinburgh Castle but was soon liberated through the interests of
powerful friends with whom he had served during the civil war.

During his imprisonment he was converted to the Society of Friends
(Quakers) by the Laird of Swinton. His son, Robert Barclay, was also a
Quaker, and published An apology for the true Christian Divinity as the
same is held forth and preached by the people called in scorn Quakers in
1675.

Although the Quakers were generally persecuted, Barclay received great
respect. In 1679 Charles II granted him a charter under the great seal,
erecting the lands of Urie into a free barony. He died at Urie in 1690.

David Barclay of Cheapside, his second son, founded Barclays Bank. In
1621 Sir Patrick Barclay, Baron of Towie, the 17th Laird, signed a letter
of safe conduct in favour of John and Peter Barclay who wished to settle
in Rostock in Livonia, on the shores of the Baltic.

From Peter in five generations was descended Field Marshall Michael
Andreas Barclay de Tolly born in 1761. He was made minister of war in
1810 and two years later given command of the Russian armies fighting
against Napoleon. His scorched earth campaign contributed greatly to
Napoleon's final downfall.

Barclay de Tolly was made a prince by the Tsar and his memory is still
honoured in Russia.

The Paper of Margaret Barclay of Waco, 1964

BARCLAY INFORMATION TO JULY 19, 1964

by Margaret Barclay of Waco,Tx

 

The ancestry of the Barclays of Ury and Mathers is to be found in
Burke^Òs "Peerage and Gentry" down to John Barclay, the third son of
Robert Barclay of Ury and his wife, Christian Mollison. This John, who
was born at Ury 8-20-1687, was sent to Dublin to manage the shipping
interest of the family. There Burke leaves him. His line has been traced
by R. Burnham Moffat in "The Barclays of New York: Who They Are and Who
They Are Not," and was made easy by the fact that Ury, made a free barony
in 1679, was entailed, and it was necessary to obtain an act of
parliament to free it in order that sale of some of the land could be
made in 1805. At that time all possible heirs were interviewed for
signature of the documents.

These records show that John Barclay of Dublin married 2) Ann Strettell,
born in Dublin 12-23-1694, died 2-21-1971 in Dublin, daughter of Amos
Strettell, merchant, and his wife, Experience. The marriage was
3-19-1713. They had two sons, Robert and John. Robert was born
1-19-1717/18 (calendar change makes this date variable) and no further
mention is made of him. John is mentioned with deeds until his marriage
to a Catholic, and after that no mention is made of him at all.

Under date of 11-3-1955, Capt. Robert E. Barclay, Geerings, Warnham,
Sussex, England, wrote to Mrs. Barclay Megarity, 4110 Watt, Waco, Tex.
that there are two conflicting documents in the family archives and until
it can be ascertained which is correct, the American Branch of the family
cannot be listed in Burk^Òs. Of these documents, one says that Robert
died while very young; the other that he displeased the family and was
cast off. There is no record in the Society of Friends in Dublin of the
death of Robert, only of his birth, and the Friends kept detailed
records, as did the Barclays who were fanatical Quakers. John, the
younger son was cast off, without even a mention from the day of his
marriage. The book, "A History of the Barclay Family with Pedigrees from
1067 to 1933" in three volumes, by Charles W. Barclay, uncle of the
present chieftain, lists Robert. There is no other Barclay by the name of
Robert at that time who is not accounted for but this particular Robert.
The family legend, which has proven true in most points, contends that
Robert of Rowan County, N.C. was the grandson of Robert Barclay of Ury
and that no other member of his immediate family was in America. The
Barclay Bible, in the possession of Speck Resinger of Woodville, had the
pages torn out when examined in 1961. On those pages were the record of
decent.

John Barclay of Dublin owed the "Barclay Frigate" which was provisioned
in Dublin 4-2-1742, and the "Diana" of Dublin, provisioned 2-24-1743. He
was allowed shipment of wheat to Barbadoes 10-16-1741. It is probable
that young Robert took one of these vessels to the colonies following
trouble with his family.

Pictures of French and British Frigates are available today, and the
Barclay Frigate probably looked very much like one of them.

The story of Robert Barclay of Rowan County, N. C. is taken from facts
found in the "History of the Liberty Baptist Association" by Elder Henry
Sheets, and Lawson^Òs "History of North Carolina," as well as the
colonial records of Rowan County, N. C.

Robert Barclay of Rowan was born 1-9-1717/18 in Dublin Ireland. He came
to America and settled sometime before 1755, as in that year the Baptist
congregation of Malapan, New Jersey, which had formerly been members of
the Quaker sect, went to North Carolina under the guidance of Rev. John
Gregory, and, with two other denominations, built a church which they
called the Jersey Church. The other denominations fell by the wayside and
the church became, and is today, Baptist. The American Revolution, two
earthquakes, and time have destroyed many of the graves there, but as
some of the children of Robert Barclay are buried in that churchyard, it
is supposed that he is, also.

Deed Book 4, page 617 Rowan County, N. C. shows that on 4-4-1761, and
proved in court in 1762, Robert Barclay was granted 708 acres by the Earl
of Granville, the only lord proprietor of North Carolina who had not
ceded his rights back to the king. The average grant at that time was 200
acres. To receive more, a man had to be of importance, of good birth. By
1778 Robert Barclay was paying taxes on 894 acres of land, and there are
records of his doing jury duty, acting as surveyor, overseeing road
construction, etc. Robert had land grants in Kentucky, also, these being
given to his sons Walter and Robert. Disposal of all of the Barclay land
is accounted for in the Rowan records.

Robert was evidently a very sick man for some time prior to his death.
His will, dated 12-5-1786, states that he is weak in body but strong in
mind, but he was not able to sign it, merely marking it with an "X". As
he had served in civic capacities which required an education, he did not
do this because of illiteracy. The will was probated in 1788, being in
Will Book C, page 121, Rowan County, N. C. records. It mentions his wife,
Leah, his sons Samuel (the oldest, who inherited the home place,
according to the laws of primogeniture under which the colony operated),
David, John, Robert, William and Walter, and daughters Margaret,
Elizabeth, Catherine, Mary and Rachel. William died, leaving his property
to his brothers Walter and Robert. Records show that Catherine married a
Hendrickson, Margaret and Mary married Todd Brothers. Leah is on the 1800
census, but the Barclay line there died out with her grandsons.

There was another Robert Barclay in Rowan County at the same time, but
his name was always spelled "Barkley" and he was a Presbyterian, living
in the western section of the county. A descendant was Senator and
Vice-President Albin Barclay of Kentucky, another Adlai Stevenson. This
line has been thoroughly traced by its historian, William D. Kizziah of
Salisbury, N. C.

Walter Barclay was born in 1774 in North Carolina, according to the 1850
census of Tyler County, Texas, page 18, dwelling 130. He and his brother,
Robert, went to Kentucky to take up land grants of their father, which
they later sold, recording the sale in Rowan County. Deed book 23, page
14, 1-29-1814, states that Joseph Haden of Rowan County let John Darr of
Rowan have 183 acres on Richard^Òs Creek adjoining Benjamin Todd, Thomas
Adams, Caleb Campbell and George Fezor, being part of a track originally
owned by the deceased Robert Barclay, which Walter and Robert Barclay let
Thomas Durham have 5-18-1789. Vol. 17, Deed Book, page 327, dated
10-2-1797, shows that Robert and Walter Barclay sold by deed made in
Kentucky two tracts of land in Rowan County. There was only one Walter
Barclay on the tax rolls of Kentucky during that year. On page 27,
Madison County, Kentucky Records printed by the Kentucky State Historical
Society, the marriage of Walter Barclay and Elizabeth McQueen is recorded
as occurring 1-27-1804. She was born in Richmond, Madison County,
Kentucky, in 1790, according to the same source. At that time, James,
Joshua and John McQueen were paying taxes in Kentucky, having come over
together from Scotland. They moved afterward to Tennessee as some of
their children are listed as being born in that state. It was obviously
the second marriage for Walter as he was 30 years of age at that time,
his wife was 14, and a son, Peter, who remained in Kentucky, is mentioned
as his child, but not as their child.

The 1820 census lists Walter Barclay in Tennessee, the l830 census lists
him in Alabama, just across the line from Tennessee, where he had lived
at Hoover^Òs Gap. His sons Anderson, James and Robert remained in
Tennessee, coming directly from there to Texas. Younger sons, Jerry and
Milton, were born in Alabama.

Family tradition has it that Walter and his older sons came to Texas in
1826, deciding to go back for their families. Anderson received land
grants in 1828. There is no record of the others, officially, until 1834.
Walter settled first in Nacogdoches, then moved to Town Bluff, the
presence of the Barclays there being on record in the University of Texas
archives. Later he moved to the farm owned by his son, James, out from
Woodville, having a separate house a few hundred yards from that of
James. Walter died there in 1858, according to the minutes of the Bethel
Baptist Church. He is listed on the 1850 census of Tyler County as having
property worth $2,000.00. Elizabeth McQueen Barclay is listed on the 1860
census as living with her son, Melton, (Milton) and having property in
the amount of $l,000.00. She died 5-15-1863 and her estate was
administered by her son, James, according to records in Woodville.

Children of Walter Barclay and Elizabeth McQueen were: sons; Robert(Sarah
McKinsey), Anderson (Sara Prathor), John , David, James(Virginia Ann
Foster), Jeremiah Todd(Elizabeth Rigsby) and Milton, daughters; Mary
(Polly), Louisa. The latter was named for uncle, Milton McQueen. Robert's
son Walter and James married Fosters; Jerry married Elizabeth Ann Rigsby,
daughter of a Foster and niece to the other women.

The "Todd" in Jeremiah^Òs name came from the Todd Family into which his
aunts married in North Carolina. They were sons of General Todd of
Pennsylvania, and relatives of Mary Todd, who married Abraham Lincoln..
The McQueens were descended from the Scottish Clan of that name.

Links of the Barclay family with other families in Tyler county to follow

submitted by Teddy Barclay Pope

link to McQueen

Walter Barclay, age 30 b.1774Rowan CO NC d.1858 Tyler CO Texas father
Robert Barclay Rowan CO NC mother Leah Madison Barclay Rowan CO NC m.
1804 Elizabeth McQueen, age 14, b. 1790 Mad. CO Ken d. 5/15, 1863 Tyler
CO Texas

Milton b. 1829 ALA d. father Walter Barclay mother Elizabeth McQueen 1866
Tyler County, Texas

link to Prather Anderson E Barclay B. 1807 TN Rutherford CO d. Tyler
County, Texas father Walter Barclay, mother Elizabeth McQueen m. Sarah
Prather b. May 23, 1815 Catahoula Psh. d. Tyler CO Texas

William Walter Barclay b. 1831 (Watt) father Anderson E Barclay mother
Sarah Prather, d. 1899

Elizabeth Barclay b. 1839 father Anderson E. Barclay m. Sarah Prather

link to Enloe

David M Barclay b. 1820 d. Dec 31 1888 Robertson CO TX father Walter
Barclay mother Elizabeth McQueen m. Mary Jane Enloe b. 1825 Al d. mar 8
1908 Robertson CO father Benjamin Enloe

link to Rigsby

Jeremiah Todd Barclay b. 1825 ALA d. Tyler CO Ex 1850 father Walter
Barclay mother Elizabeth McQueen m Elizabeth Ann Rigsby father Lewis
Rigsby b. 1833 GA mother Mary Foster d. Jan 21, 1890 Boll CO TX

William Anderson Barclay b. Dec 23, 1849 d. Oct 24, 1927 Temple, Boll CO,
TX father Jeremiah Todd Barclay mother Elizabeth Ann Rigsby m. Martha
King Ledbetter b. Feb 14, 1871

link to McQueen

Barclay, Lacy Milton b. 1826 d. unknown father Robert Barclay mother
Sarah McKinsey m. Nancy McQueen b. 1834 d. July 20,1867 Tyler County
Texas<

Robert Barclay b. 1805 d. before 1850 father Walter Barclay mother
Elizabeth McQueen m. Sarah McKinsey

link to Foster

Walter Barclay b. 1831 d. November 4, 1899 Tyler CO Texas father Robert
Barclay 1806 mother Sarah McKinsey m. Martha Jane Foster August 17, 1852
and Mary Mahaffey Powell Aug 27, 1865

link to Cruse

Robert (Bob) b. Feb 6, 1835 d. Feb 22, 1918 father Walter Barclay mother
Martha Jane Foster m. Ellen Cruse

link to Nolan

James Franklin B. 1833 d. 1865 father Walter Barclay mother ? m.
Katherine Nolan

link to Durham

Henry Anderson Barclay b. 1839 father Walter Barclay mother ? m. Mary E
Durham

link with Foster

James Walter Barclay b. Feb 11 1816 d. Nov 14, 1873 Tyler CO TX father
Walter Barclay mother Elizabeth McQueen m. Virginia Ann Foster b. Feb 9,
1827 GA d. Nov 14 1867 Tyler CO TX

link with Bullock

Jane Elizabeth Barclay b. Feb 16 1842 father James Walter Barclay mother
Virginia Ann Foster m. Jan 11 1865 Tyler CO TX Charles Bullock (first
wife Isabella Scott)

link with Risinger and link with Hodge

Avarilla Barclay b. 1843 Tyler Co d. Jul 8 1922 Tyler CO father James
Barclay mother Virginia Foster m. Landon James Risinger Jan. 3 1859 and
James a Hodge after widowed.

Link with Beatty

Mary Lewis Barclay b. Sept 7 1845 Tyler CO TX d. 1933 Tyler CO Texas
father James Barclay mother Virginia Foster m. Thomas Boston Beatty

link with Linsey

Sarah Anderson Barclay b. Jun 24 1847 d. Sep 9 1935 Tyler County TX
father James Barclay mother Virginia Foster m. Oct 21 1869 James Oliver
Lindsey

link with Chinked

James Walter b. Jul 5 1849 d. Dec 27 1907 father James Barclay mother
Virginia Foster m. Dec 22 1870 Tyler CO TX Nancy Katherine Kincade

Link to Jenning

Louisa J. Barclay b. 1828 ALA father Walter Barclay mother Elizabeth
McQueen m. Jenning, Humley (Humby) b. 1828 MD

link to Bevens

Mary Barclay b. 1818 ALA father Walter Barclay mother Elizabeth McQueen
m. James Bevens b. 1816 KY

link to Pruitt

John M Barclay b. 1814 TN father Walter Barclay Morther Elizabeth McQueen
m. Louisa Jane Pruitt b. 1829 TN d. Jan 1881 Milan CO TX

Link to Carr

Sara Elizabeth Barclay b. Oct 18 1848 TX d. Nov 19 1928 Cottle CO TX
father John M Barclay mother Louisa Jane Pruitt m. March 14, 1867 Milan
CO TX Thomas C. Carr

other children of James Barclay b. 1816 Virginia Foster listed below born
after 1850 census

link with Allison

Tennessee Ann Barclay b. 1851 d. 1935 father James Barclay mother
Virginia Foster m. William Allison

John M Barclay father James Barclay mother Virginia Foster b. 1853 Tyler
CO d. 1905 Tyler CO

Napoleon Bonapart Barclay b. 1856 Tyler CO Texas d. 1937 Tyler County
Texas father James Barclay mother Virginia Foster m. Marta Estell ?

?America Barclay b. 1887 Tyler CO Texas d. 1884 Tyler CO Texas father
James Barclay Virginia Foster m

link with Bevil

Phoebe Arizona Barclay b. 1899Tyler CO Texas d. 194? Tyler County Texas
father James Barclay mother Virginia Foster M. Thomas Beatty Bevel

link with Phillipsl

William Franklin Barclay b. 1861 Tyler CO Texas d. 1904 Tyler CO Texas
father James Barclay mother Virginia Foster m. Ida Phillips

link with Durham

Charles Bullock Barclay b. 1866 Tyler CO Texas father James Barclay
mother Virginia Foster m. ?Durham

THE BARCLAYS

by W. H. Barclay, descended from Robert Barclay, son of Robert Barclay of
Rowan County, North Carolina before 1755

revised in July, 1982

revised again by Carl Locke, 1992

(1) 1067 - 1610 A. D. comments David Barclay of Mathers, Scotland.

(2) 1610 - 1686 Col. David Barclay, from Gordonsturn and Ury Estates,
Scotland

(3) 1648 - 1690 Robert Barclay, ^ÑApologist" Ury Castle, near Aberdeen,
Scotland.

(4) 1672 - 1748 Robert Barclay, son of above, Ury, Scotland. Laird of
Ury.

(5) l600 - Robert Barclay, son of above, grandson of Apologist, Ury & ?

(6) - 1786 Robert Barclay, son of Aboe of Ury and Rowan Co., N. C.

(7) 1758? - 1846 Robert Barclay, son of Rowan Co., N. C. Also lived in
MO.

(8) 1812 - 1900 / 1 Derrett Hubbard Barclay, son of above, along with the
others

1) David Barclay, father of Col. David Barclay, stated that there had
always been a Barclay Group. About 150 men and their families moved from
North Ireland around 1067 to Mathers Province, Scotland, this no doubt
for religious and economical reasons. This was after the Crusades, and a
Robert I was first king of Scotland before the wars with the Normandy
Saxons and British groups.

2) Col. David Barclay, son of above, married Lady Katherine Gordon, a
relative of the Stuart^Òs of Holland from which came Princess Elizabeth
of Holland and James I and II of the United Kingdom eventually. lady
Gordon owned "Gordonstun" later to become a Boarding School for boys and
in which the present Prince of Wales spend part of his boyhood. to Col.
David and his wife, lady Gordon, was born Robert the Apologist in 148.
Col David had become a Quaker. Lady Gordon died in 1674. Col. David died
at Ury in his son^Òs home, which had been purchased and built for his
son, in 1686.

3) Robert the Quaker ^ÑApologist" as he was known, born to above in 1648.
married Christian Mollison 1670, had 3 sons, Robert 1672, David 1682,
john 1687, and 5 girls. A book was written by Eldon Trueblood on this
Robert the Apologist, with comments about the others, while attending
Cambridge in England, which will not be attempted for summary herein.
This Robert became Laird of Ury. Thus the beginning of No. (4).

4) Robert, Laird of Ury, married Elizabeth Braine 1696. 3 sons Robert
1699, John, 1701, David 1710, plus 5 girls. The Laird died 1747.

Herein No. 5 and 6 can be combined.

5 & 6) Robert 1699 - 1786. Suggest born at Ury, went to Rowan Co., N. C.
1748 plus or minus. ENTER LORD GRANVILLE, PRIME MINISTER OF ENGLAND UNDER
KING JAMES II. One of the prior Robert^Òs was a friend of the King and
spent one summer visiting him. Lord Granville owned some lands in the
American Colony, which he did not return to the crown when he resigned
before the Revolutionary. War. Also the King had personal lands and title
appeared to be known as King Lines. John, the brother acquainted with he
Lord, possibly looked after his estate in Scotland, and made a deal to
come to the Colony and sell properties for the King and the Lord.
Abstract records indicate some of the transactions 1759-63, as an
example, but does not preclude prior transactions, just the ones that are
known. You ask why didn^Òt he get married sooner? Being Scotch, you know
the answer, couldn^Òt afford it sooner, and it was a custom for men to
wait later in life before marriage. Remember these boys were going
through Industrial Revolution oat home, the Renaissance, Reformation,
Indian, French Wars, and finally Revolutionary War of the Colonies
1776-79. He apparently married a young lady for name of Leah ____. So it
was not impossible for her to be bearing children to him ate in his life.
- Eusibius Hubbard, a Captain, said that the Cornstalk Battalion was
called into service in 1777,which was old for our Robert, but he was
known to have been a Captain also.

	My father, Noah Sterling Barclay, stated to me that two brothers came to
North Carolina from SCOTLAND (not Ireland) both having large families
which the Family Groups show. Henry is name suggested for the brother
living in Orange County, N>R>? Three sons make an impression at least.
Samuel 1758? married Mary Davis 1784, inherited the homestead 1786 - 88,
for Robert, the brother from Missouri and Walter, the brother form
Woodville, Texas, both returned to Rowan Co. to help settle the estate.
THIS IS A FACT. However, the birth date of the last two just does not
meet date requirements, as their father gave them land in Kentucky, which
they only retained a short time and disposed of before separating and
going to Mo. and Texas, etc. Walter arrived in Texas 1826. Robert of Mo.
will be handled in clause No. (7). This Robert, the Rowan Co., one,
joined a Jersey Church as it was called the Jersey Church, which had been
a Quaker Church at Malapan, n. J. Two other groups, namely Baptist and
Campbelites, joined with he minister, Rev. john Gregory, and determined
it as a Baptist. later, Thomas and Alexander Campbell withdrew and joined
with Barton Stone in what was later known as the Christian Church
(Disciples) at Boynton , C. C. about thirty miles north of Robert^Òs home
on Buffalo Creek. So he could not have reasonably been a Catholic or the
John Barclays^Ò (Robert 1717-18) unaccounted for. Besides, he had enough
money to purchase livestock and other real and personal property from
Andrew Pitts on Oct. 13, 1759 to begin some form of agriculture. It took
him two years to get title from Lord Granville in England to 708 acres on
Buffalo Creek. At the same time, John Beard purchas4ed 280 acres
adjoining his, both paying 10 English Sterling Shillings, both
transactions being recorded on April 4, 1761. The John Barclay^Òs ,
brother and nephews of the Apologist ran the family Mercantile and
Shipping Business out of Dublin, Ireland.

	The David family went to England and was a successful business man. It
is possible that he or his off-spring started the Bank of England. met a
young lady from Salisbury, NC Rowan county, last week, and she stated
that Barclay^Òs Limited, and located in the area, was a branch of the
English bank, and that she was aware of where Buffalo Creek was. As to
the other Robert Barclay in the area at the same time, have been able to
determine who he was. One of the John Barclay^Òs in Penn. or NY, who
drove the first nail in the first building at Cornell University., had a
Robert who migrated to Rowan Co. and was a shoemaker, as advised by two
sisters in Iowa by rescent correspondence. Little imagination would be
required to write a book o this man, since one has already been written
on the Apologist. It is almost a miracle that so much information is
still available. Therefore, I hereby declare that Robert of Rowan Co. N.
C. n C. was the great grandson of Robert Barclay the Quaker Apologist.

7) Robert Barclay, son of Robert Barclay of Rowan Co., n. C., along with
his brother Walter, must have been born earlier in the sequence of
births, since they would have needed to be 18 or 21 years of age to have
ownership of land in Kentucky in 1784. Robert could have married Mary
Hubbard in Va. or Mo. before coming to Mo. and briefly settling near
Clinton, MO., wherein he declared or homestead on a tract of land on a
tributary to the Mo. river, which frequently became inundated. He later
acquired two tracts of land 3 1/2 miles wet and about six miles north of
Columbia, MO;, on a creek named for him later and still bearing the name.
It would not be too far from the Univ. of MO according to one of the
Deans of Tulsa Univ.

Evidently, the Davidsons and Atteberry^Òs were neighbors since there was
so much intermarriage of the children of each. Robert is reported to also
have been in the service of his county? From this marriage to Mary
Hubbard came among others, Derrett Hubbard Barclay, or extended
grandparents, who conceived 16 children, 12 of which lived to some age of
accountability, and from which has grown urge to compile a history, along
with some of his brothers and sisters. Family Group resumes will follow,
but as previously stated, I am proud to be a Barclay.

W. H. Barclay

THE END