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Theophylact Bache ( – ) was an American merchant and fifth president of the
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Early life

Theophylact Bache was born on in
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, in the
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, England. He was the son of William Bache, a tax collector, and Mary (
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Blechynden) Bache, who were married around 1720. His younger brother,
Richard Bache Richard Bache (September 12, 1737 – April 17, 1811) was a businessman, a marine insurance underwriter, and later served as Postmaster-General of the American Post Office. He also was the son-in-law of Benjamin Franklin. Early life Bache was ...
, was the second
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and the son-in-law of
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Career

He landed in New York 17 September 1751, took charge of the business of Paul Richard a successful merchant and former mayor, whose wife was a Bache relative. Richard died in 1756, and Bache became the owner of merchant vessels, and engaged in
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. He was identified with American resistance to England in 1765, and in 1770 was one of the committee to carry out the resolutions of non-intercourse. In 1774, he was one of the committee of correspondence appointed when the port of
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was closed. He supported the first
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; but when the
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actually began he remained so far neutral as to incur the suspicions of the committee of safety. He remained in New York during the British occupation of the city, and befriended American officers held there as prisoners of war. In 1777 he was chosen the fifth president of the
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Personal life

Bache was married to Ann Dorothea Barclay (1741–1795), one of eleven children of merchant Andrew Barclay and Helen (
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) Barclay. Among her siblings was Catherine Barclay (wife of Augustus Van Cortlandt), and Sarah Ann Barclay (wife of Anthony Lispenard). Together, they were the parents of: * Elizabeth Garland Bache (1762–1795), who married James Noel Bleecker, the eldest son of
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. * Mary Bache (b. 1766), who married Charles McEvers, Jr. * Paul Richard Bache (1767–1801), who married his cousin, Helen Roosevelt Lispenard, a daughter of Anthony Lispenard. * Andrew Barclay Bache (1770–1847), who married Charlotte Phillips. * Anna Dorothea Bache (1771–1814), who married her cousin, Col.
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, a son of Anthony Lispenard, in 1790. * William Bache (1773–1813), who married Christina Cooper. * Sarah Elizabeth Bache (1774–1852), who married James Noel Bleecker, after the death of her elder sister, in 1795. * Catharine Thomas Bache (1776–1854), who married William Satterthwaite. * Helena Bache (1780–1802), who died unmarried. Bache died on 30 October 1807.


Descendants

Through his daughter Mary, he was a grandfather of Sarah Barclay McEvers (the wife of Robert Montgomery
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, a grandson of Judge Robert Livingston) and Bache McEvers (1798–1851), was an American commission merchant, shipper, and insurer.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bache, Theophylact Created via preloaddraft 1735 births 1807 deaths People from Settle, North Yorkshire 18th-century American merchants British emigrants to the Thirteen Colonies Merchants from colonial New York