Colonial executive; born in
Alphen, Holland, in 1644.
His mother was a sister of
Governor Stuyvesant, the last
Dutch governor of New Netherland, whom she accompanied to
America in 1647, with her three sons and a daughter.
The old
Bayard mansion in New York City, on the Bowery, was converted into a pleasure garden in 1798.
The Astor Library is built on a part of the estate.
Under the second
English regime, in 1685,
Bayard was mayor of New York, and a member of
Governor Dongan's council.
In 1698
Col. Bayard went to
England to clear himself of the
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imputation of complicity in the piracy of
Captain Kidd, having been accused by the Leisler faction of both piracy and a scheme to introduce slavery.
He was tried before
Chief-Justice Atwood and sentenced to death.
The proceedings, however, were annulled by an order-in-council, and he was reinstated in his property and honors.
He died in New York City, in 1707.
