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American family
The Bayard family has been a prominent family of
lawyers and
politicians throughout American history, primarily from
Wilmington, Delaware. Beginning as
Federalists, they joined the party of
Andrew Jackson and remained leaders of the
Democratic Party into the 20th century. Counting
Richard Bassett, the father-in-law of
James A. Bayard, Sr., the family provided six generations of
U.S. senators from Delaware, serving from 1789 until 1929.
History
Ann Stuyvesant Bayard, widowed wife of the
French
Huguenot Samuel Bayard, came to
New Netherland with her brother,
Director-General
Peter Stuyvesant in 1647. Her grandson, another Samuel Bayard, went to Bohemia Manor,
Maryland in 1698. His grandson was
John Bubenheim Bayard (1738–1808),
Continental Congressman from
Pennsylvania, and his great-grandson, John Bayard's nephew, was
James A. Bayard, Sr., the first Bayard in the
U.S. Senate.
Family members
- Judith Bayard (c. 1615–1687), m.
Peter Stuyvesant,
Director-General of
New Netherland
- Samuel Bayard (c. 1615–c. 1647), m. 1638, Anna Stuyvesant, sister of
Peter Stuyvesant; to
New Amsterdam 1647
-
Nicholas Bayard (c. 1644–1707), m. Judith Varleth,
16th
Mayor of New York City, nephew of
Peter Stuyvesant
- Samuel Bayard (1669–1746), m. Margaretta Van Cortlandt (1674–1719), a Judge
-
Stephen Bayard (1700–1757), m. Alida Vetch (b. 1705),
39th
Mayor of New York City
- William Bayard (1729–1804), m. Catharine McEvers (1732–1814), delegate to the 1765
Stamp Act Congress and loyalist in the
Revolutionary War
[1]
- Col.
John Bubenheim Bayard (1738–1808),
Continental Congressman from Pennsylvania, to
Philadelphia 1755, m. Margaret Hodge, daughter of Andrew Hodge and Margaret McCulloch
-
Samuel Bayard (1757-1832)
- Mary Bayard (1760–1806), m. 1788,
William Houstoun (c. 1755–1813), delegate to the
Continental Congress and the
United States Constitutional Convention and whose name was given to
Houston Street in Manhattan
-
William Bayard Jr. (1761–1826), m. Elizabeth Cornell (d. 1854), New York City banker, friend to
Alexander Hamilton
[2]
- Samuel Bayard (1767–1840), lawyer and judge
-
James A. Bayard, Sr. (1767–1815),
U.S. Senator from Delaware, m. Ann Bassett, daughter of
Richard Bassett,
U.S. Senator
- Jane Bayard (1772–1851), m.
Andrew Kirkpatrick (1756–1831), Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court
-
Margaret Bayard (1778–1844), m. Samuel Harrison Smith
-
Richard Henry Bayard (1796–1868),
U.S. Senator from Delaware, 1st Mayor of Wilmington, Delaware
-
James Asheton Bayard, Jr. (1799–1880),
U.S. Senator from Delaware
- Edward Bayard (1806–1889), m. Tryphena Cady (1804–1891), daughter of Judge
Daniel Cady and sister of
Elizabeth Cady Stanton. (Edward Bayard attended
Union College in
Schenectady, New York and studied law under his father-in-law, Daniel Cady.)
- Caroline Smith Bayard (1807–1891), m.
Albert Baldwin Dod (1805–1845), professor of mathematics at
Princeton University
-
Thomas Francis Bayard, Sr. (1828–1898),
U.S. Senator from Delaware
-
Martha Bayard Dod (1831–1899), m.
Edwin Augustus Stevens (1795–1868), founder of
Stevens Institute of Technology
- Mabel Bayard Warren (1861–1920), married Boston attorney
Samuel D. Warren
-
Florence Bayard Hilles (1865–1954), Delaware suffragist
-
Thomas Francis Bayard, Jr. (1868–1942),
U.S. Senator from Delaware, m. Elizabeth Bradford du Pont, daughter of Alexis I. du Pont
-
Alexis Irenee du Pont "Lex" Bayard (1918–1985),
Lieutenant Governor of Delaware
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