Stephanus Bayard or Stephen Bayard (May 31, 1700 aptized– 1757) was the 39th

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from 1744 to 1747.

Early life

Stephanus Bayard was born in May 1700 to Judge Samuel Bayard (1669–1746) and Margaretta Van Cortlandt (1674–1719). His paternal grandfather was

Nicholas Bayard Nicholas Bayard (c. 1644–1707 or 1709) was a government official and slave trader in colonial New York. Bayard served as the mayor of New York City from 1685 to 1686. He is historically most notable for being Peter Stuyvesant's nephew and for ...

(c. 1644–1707), the 16th

and a nephew of

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. His maternal grandparents were Stephen Van Cortlandt (1643–1700), the

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Mayor of New York City, and Gertruj Schuyler, daughter of

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. His siblings included Judith Bayard, who married Rip Van Dam, Nicholas Bayard (1698–1765), who married Elizabeth Rynders, Gertruyd Bayard, who married

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(1704–1789), Samuel Bayard, who married Catharine Van Horn, and Margaretta Bayard (b. 1719) who married James Van Horn.

Career

In 1725, Bayard wrote to Robert Livingston stating that 30 slaves died on a voyage to the colony due to a shortage of food and that Moses Levy was awaiting payment of Livingston's account. On September 29, 1744, Bayard was appointed the 39th

for three consecutive one-year terms until 1747. During his first year in office, he took steps to found a college in New York City, feeling that New Yorkers had neglected the interests of education. He initiated the raising of £2,250 for the foundation of a college, which was completed 10 years later and became

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. In May 1745, his government prohibited skinners, leather dressers, and curriers from neighborhoods below the Collect and prohibited hatters and starch makers from pouring waste into the streets.

Hoboken

Bayard had country estate and farm at

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, called Hoboken, in Bergen County, New Jersey. After his death, his son, William Bayard, inherited the property. William, who originally supported the revolutionary cause, became a Loyalist Tory after the fall of New York in 1776 when the city and surrounding areas, including the west bank of the renamed Hudson River, were occupied by the British. At the end of the Revolutionary War, Bayard's property was confiscated by the Revolutionary Government of New Jersey. In 1784, the land described as "William Bayard's farm at Hoebuck" was bought at auction by Colonel John Stevens for £18,360 (then $90,000).Short History of Hoboken
, Hoboken Historical Museum. Accessed September 1, 2015.

Personal life

On March 12, 1724, he married Alida Vetch (b. 1705), the only daughter of

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(1668–1732), the Royal Governor of Nova Scotia, and Margaret Livingston (1681–1758), a daughter of Robert Livingston and Alida Schuyler Van Rensselaer. Together, they were the parents of eight children, including: * Samuel Bayard * Nicholas Bayard * William Bayard (1729–1804), who married Catharine McEvers (1732–1814) in 1750, who was a delegate to the 1765

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and loyalist in the Revolutionary War * Stephen Bayard * Robert Bayard (1739–1819), who married Rebecca Apthorp (1746–1772), daughter of

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, in 1766. After her death, he married her sister, Elizabeth Apthorp (b. 1740), the widow of James McEvers, in 1773. * Margaret Bayard After his first wife's death, he married Eve Schuyler in New Barbadoes,

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. They did not have any children.

Descendants

His grandchildren included: Samuel Vetch Bayard (1757–1832), William Bayard Jr. (1761–1826), Mary Bayard (1779–1849), and Elise Justine Bayard (1823–c.1852). His great-granddaughter, Harriet Elizabeth Bayard (1799–1875), married General

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(1789–1868), son of

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, both distant cousins through the

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.Murphy, Elizabeth Burbank. Bayard, Elizabeth Cornell. NCPedia. 1979. http://ncpedia.org/biography/bayard-elizabeth Accessed April 5, 2015 His great-grandson,

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(1850–1912), was a merchant, developer, and factory owner.

References

;Notes ;Sources * Foote
Annals of King's Chapel
Boston: Little, Brown, 1896. (Includes reproductions of portraits of Charles and Grizzell) * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bayard, Stephen 1700 births 1757 deaths

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