CHAPTER III 

 THE BAYARDS AND OTHER FAMILIES 



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The American 



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iRADITION traces the Bayard family back to 

 that great French Knight who was dubbed " sans 

 peur et sans reproche ' ' (without fear and with- 

 Bayards out rcproach). The history of the American Bayards 



properly begins with Nicholas Bayard, a Huguenot min- 

 ister who fled into Holland after the massacre of St. Bar- 

 tholomew and settled in Amsterdam. His daughter, 

 Judith, married Peter Stuyvesant, the last of the Dutch 

 governors of New Amsterdam, and one of his sous mar- 

 ried Stuyvesant' s sister. From this alliance sprang 

 Nicolas, Balthazar, and Peter Bayard, the founders of the 

 American branches of the family. 



Nicholas and Balthazar became prominent citizens of 

 New York, while Peter, offending his aristocratic breth- 

 ren by joining the Labadists, went to Bohemia Manor and 

 established the Delaware branch. No American family 

 has a more honourable record than the Delaware Bayards, 

 who for generation after generation have been zealous for 

 Branch ^hc public Welfare, as the following brief sketch of some 



of its members will show. 



Colonel John Bayard, born in Bohemia Manor, Md., in 

 John Bayard 1738, was the grcat-graudsou of Peter Bayard. When he 

 was eighteen years old he went up to Philadelphia and 

 there commenced his commercial career. He was very 

 successful in business, and in the course of a few years was 

 reckoned among the leading merchants of that flourishing 

 city. He was a patriot through and through, and as he 

 was a man of strong character he soon became a vital 



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