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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 Peter Kemble (1704–1789), Samuel Bayard, who married Catharine Van Horn, and Margaretta Bayard (b. 1719) who married James Van Horn.[4]
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 the payment of Livingston's account.[5][6]
On September 29, 1744, Bayard was appointed the 39th Mayor of New York City for three consecutive one-year terms until 1747.[7][8] 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 King's College.[8]
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.[8]
Hoboken
Bayard had country estate and farm at Castle Point, 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).[9]
William Bayard (1729–1804), who married Catharine McEvers (1732–1814) in 1750,[13] who was a delegate to the 1765 Stamp Act Congress and loyalist in the Revolutionary War[14]
Stephen Bayard
Robert Bayard (1739–1819),[15] who married Rebecca Apthorp (1746–1772), daughter of Charles Apthorp, in 1766.[16] After her death, he married her sister, Elizabeth Apthorp (b. 1740), the widow of James McEvers, in 1773.[17]
Margaret Bayard
After his first wife's death, he married Eve Schuyler in New Barbadoes, New Jersey. They did not have any children.[18]
^Bayard, Robert; McEvers, James (1 January 1757). Robert Bayard (1739-1819) Commissions and Letters, 1757-1830. New-York Historical Society. OCLC894476245. Commission of Robert Bayard as lieutenant in the 80th Regiment, Light Armed Foot, under Colonel Thomas Gage, dated December 26, 1757. Signed by King George II. Commission of Robert Bayard as major, 60th or Royal American Regiment of Foot, commanded by Sir Henry Amherst. Signed by King George III. Certificate appointing Robert Bayard as collector of customs at Philadelphia, dated February 7, 1772. Commission from Governor William Tryon to Robert Bayard as judge of the Vice-Admiralty Court, New York; with seal attached. Dated December 6, 1776. Bond of Robert Bayard and Barlow Trecothick to Herbert Munster for £2,000, dated July 19, 1764. Two letters from Robert Bayard to James McEvers, New York, concerning McEvers' mother's health and other personal matters; dated Bath, July 3, 1785, and July 27, 1785
^New England Historic Genealogical Society. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1847–2011. Boston: The New England Historic Genealogical Society.