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John Barclay (mayor)

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from 1791 to 1793. He worked as president of the Bank of Pennsylvania and was one of the founders of the Insurance Company of North America. He served as a
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selected to serve in Philadelphia under the city charter of April 1790. He was a member of the
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He was appointed a justice of the peace in 1782 and rose to President Judge of the Courts of
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section of Philadelphia on December 11, 1781, and they had five children.
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entered its third year, and resided in the revolutionary capital of
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He was married twice. He married his second wife, Mary Searle, at
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in 1792, and served as a director of the company until 1793.
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at John Barclay Elementary School, Warrington, Pennsylvania.
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in 1824 and is interred in the Neshaminy Church Cemetery in
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This biography of a state judge in Pennsylvania is a
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Mayor of Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Senate
District 1
Ballyshannon
Philadelphia
Federalist
Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Mayor of Philadelphia
Federalist
Pennsylvania State Senate
Ballyshannon
colonial-era
British America
American Revolutionary War
Philadelphia
Philadelphia
Continental Army
American Revolutionary War
Bucks County
aldermen
Constitutional convention
mayor of Philadelphia
Bank of Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania General Assembly
Insurance Company of North America
Pennsylvania State Senate
1st district
Christ Church
Old City

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