There is a tradition in the family that he was shipped from Rochelle in a hogahead. He soon rallied around him a congregation of Huguenot refugees, whose pastor he continued until his death. He mirried, in Holland, Anna Stuyvesant, sister of Peter Stuyvesant, the last Dutch Governor of New York. Madame Anna Bayard, her husband being then dead, accompanied her brother, Peter Stuv-^-estant, to New York v/ith her three children, all sons-- Balshazar, Peter and Nicholas-- where they landed on the fourteenth of May, 1647. From these three brothers are descended all who bear the name of Bayard in the United States. Peter purchased lands on the Bohemia Manor, in 16S4 -- a portion of which were in Delaware, and a portion in Cecil County, Maryland; he married Blandinas Corde, a lady of fine talents and great culture. From them the Delaware, the Philadelphia, and the Pittsburgh Bayards, came. Nicholas, the youngest of tlie three sons of the first Balshazar Bayard, was manv years a member of the Council of State for the Colonial Government of New

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Vi.'r'i. I"^^ ''■''^s eminent for his piety, as well as his political influence. I:: tiie turbulent period in which he lived, his integrity was esteemed by a!! j;arties. In the changes from Dutch to Enghsh, and from English to Dutch, and again to English supremacy, he maintained a high position. Tiie demagogue Leisler, du'-ing his usurped authority, found in Bayard a formidable impediment, and caused him to be indicted for high treason. The judge -- Atwood -- like another Jeftries, compelled the jur\' to find him guilty and sentenced him to be hung. He appealed to Queen A-ne, and was pardoned."* Leisler was subsequently tried and convicted of high treason, and hung.