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BARCLAY.

Robert Barclay and his wife Sarah lived, in the early part
of the century, on the south side of the road leading from the
Cross Roads to Israel's Gap, at the place where James B.

Sutherland now resides. There Barclay died in 1818, and his
widow was afterwards married to John Harris, of Viewmont.
He left two sons and two daughters, Mary E., who became
the wife of John D. Moon Sr., Thomas J., James T., and Ann
Maria, the wife of Edward H. Moon. Thomas died unmarried
in 1828. About the same time James came to Charlottesville,
and opened a drug store. He lived in the brick house on
the northeast corner of Market and Seventh Streets, which
he bought in 1830 from Rev. F. W. Hatch. This place and
some other property he sold to T. J. Randolph, and the same
year purchased from him Monticello, containing five hundred
and fifty-two acres, then valued at seven thousand dollars,
the transaction being in all probability an exchange. He
resided there till 1836, when he sold it with two hundred and
eighteen acres to Commodore Uriah P. Levy. He then became
a Disciples minister, and sailed as a missionary to
Jerusalem, where he remained for many years. As the result
of his researches there, he published a large work descriptive
of the place, entitled The City of the Great King.
He and his wife Julia had several children, among them a
son, who was appointed by Mr. Cleveland in his first term
Consul to Algiers, where a kinsman of the same name had
discharged the same functions a hundred years before. The
latter part of Mr. Barclay's life was spent in this country
with a son in Alabama, where he died a few years ago.