page_title: Thomas Henry Barclay
section_title: Resettlement in British Canada
hierarchical_section_title: Thomas Henry Barclay / American Revolutionary War / Resettlement in British Canada
caption_attribution_description: English: Inscription on Plaque: United Empire Loyalists: Erected to the memory of Brigadier General Timothy Ruggles, Major Samuel Vetch Bayard, Major Thomas H. Barclay and other Loyalists who settled in this part of Nova Scotia. Ruggles, 1711-1830, was born in Rochester, Mass. and educated at Harvard College. He achieved great distinction in civil and military life. Bayard 1757 - 1790, served in the Kings Orange Rangers. Barclay, 1757-1830, serve in the Loyal American Regiment, as speaker of the House f Assembly of Nova Scotia and as the British Consul General in New York.
context_page_description: Thomas Henry Barclay was an American lawyer who became one of the United Empire Loyalists in Nova Scotia and served in the colony's government.
context_section_description: After considering New Brunswick, Thomas Henry Barclay opted for Nova Scotia where the forces were given land grants. At one point, he had moved to Annapolis Royal and began a law practice.
  In 1785, he was elected to the 6th General Assembly of Nova Scotia representing Annapolis County while Edmund Fanning was governor. The next year, John Parr became governor. In 1793, Barclay was elected for Annapolis Township and served as speaker for the assembly. He also served as lieutenant-colonel in the colony's militia and was boundary commissioner for the British when the border between the United States and New Brunswick was settled in Jay's Treaty. Although he was appointed to the Council for Nova Scotia in 1799, he was given the post of British consul general in New York City later that year.
  Following the War of 1812, he became a member of another boundary commission dealing with another section of the border with the United States. In 1822, he settled at a country home on Manhattan.
caption: Monument to Major Thomas Barclay of the Loyal American Regiment, Middleton Park, Middleton, Nova Scotia, Canada
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