William Bayard, Sr.

Loyalist, after having pro-independence leanings.

Had an estate above the future Greenwich Village on the Hudson, Manhttan. See the Ratzer map of 1767 Manhattan in 1767

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayard_family Bayard family on wikipedia }

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%27s_Orange_Rangers

~• candidate for the Colonial Assembly for NY: Feb. 1761, New York City

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collect_Pond (note use of <Bayard Hill>

Epitaph from All Saints Church, Southampton, England

Sacred to the Memory of
Eliza Bayard
also of William Bayard, Esq.
who died 24th Dec. 1804
Aged 74

Also of Catherine Bayard
wife of the said William Bayard
who died 26th June, 1814

Also of Mary
daughter of the
above William and Catherine Bayard
late of Rushington Hants
who died at Westend Hill
July 24th, 1840
Aged 70 years

Source: The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Volumes 21-22

William Bayard, a merchant, was born in New York, 1 June 1729, and died in Southampton, England, in 1804. He joined the Sons of Liberty, but his principles would not permit him to aid the movement for independence, and he sailed for England, residing near Southampton. At the period of his departure Colonel Bayard was among the most prominent and opulent merchants of New York. His ancestral country seat at Castle Point included nearly all the land on which the present city of Hoboken is built. The estate was confiscated and sold, but by marriage passed into the possession of a Bayard. Two of his four sons entered the British army Lieut.-Colonel John Bayard, and Major Samuel Vetch Bayard. His third son, William, was the head of the leading mercantile house of New York in the early part of the present century, the firm being Bayard, Leroy & McEvers.

Bayard's son William was born in 1761 and died in 1826. He was a successful merchant and partner in LeRoy, Bayard & McEvers, a leading commercial house in New York. Bayard was also the president of the Bank of America and a member of the Chamber of Commerce for the state of New York.* Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Nov 12 2022, 5:06:43 UTC