The Bayard family has been a prominent family of

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and

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throughout American history, primarily from

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. Beginning as Federalists, they joined the party of

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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

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Samuel Bayard, came to

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with her brother,

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in 1647. Her grandson, another Samuel Bayard, went to Bohemia Manor,

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, in 1698. His grandson was John Bubenheim Bayard (1738–1808),

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man from

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, and his great-grandson, John Bayard's nephew, was James A. Bayard Sr., the first Bayard in the

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Family members

* Judith Bayard (c. 1615–1687), m.

* Samuel Bayard (c. 1615–c. 1647), m. 1638, Anna Stuyvesant, sister of

; to

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1647 * Nicholas Bayard (c. 1644–1707), m. Judith Varleth, 16th

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, nephew of

* Samuel Bayard (1669–1746), m. Margaretta Van Cortlandt (1674–1719), a Judge * Stephen Bayard (1700–1757), m. Alida Vetch (b. 1705), 39th

* William Bayard (1729–1804), m. Catharine McEvers (1732–1814), delegate to the 1765

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and loyalist in the Revolutionary War * Col. John Bubenheim Bayard (1738–1808),

man from Pennsylvania, to

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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

and the United States Constitutional Convention and whose name was given to

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in Manhattan * William Bayard Jr. (1761–1826), m. Elizabeth Cornell (d. 1854), New York City banker, friend to

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/ref> * 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,

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* Jane Bayard (1772–1851), m. Andrew Kirkpatrick (1756–1831), Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court * Margaret Bayard Smith (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

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. (Edward Bayard attended

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, 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

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* Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. (1828–1898), U.S. Senator from Delaware * Martha Bayard Dod (1831–1899), m. Edwin Augustus Stevens (1795–1868), founder of

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* 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 Irénée du Pont "Lex" Bayard (1918–1985), Lieutenant Governor of Delaware

References

{{Reflist *Bayard Genealogy
Samuel Bayard Genealogy

External links

*Pickett, Russell S

*Kestenbaum, Lawrence.

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