Stephen Bayard
| Stephen Bayard | |
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| 39th Mayor of New York City | |
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In office September 29, 1744 – 1747 |
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| Preceded by | John Cruger |
| Succeeded by | Edward Holland |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Stephanus Bayard May 31, 1700 New York City, New York, US |
| Died | 1757 Bergen County, NJ, US |
| Spouse(s) | Alida Vetch (m. 1724) |
| Relations |
Nicholas Bayard (grandfather) Stephen Van Cortlandt (grandfather) William Bayard Jr. (grandson) |
| Children | 8 |
| Parents | Samuel Bayard Margaretta Van Cortlandt |
Stephanus Bayard or Stephen Bayard (May 31, 1700 [baptized] – 1757) was the 39th Mayor of New York City from 1744 to 1747.
Stephanus Bayard was born in May 1700 to Judge Samuel Bayard (1669–1746) and Margaretta Van Cortlandt (1674–1719). His paternal grandfather was Nicholas Bayard (c. 1644–1707), the 16th Mayor of New York City and a nephew of Peter Stuyvesant. His maternal grandparents were Stephen Van Cortlandt (1643–1700), the 17th Mayor of New York City, and Gertruj Schuyler, daughter of Philip Pieterse Schuyler.
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.
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 is awaiting payment of Livingston's account.
On September 29, 1744, Bayard was appointed the 39th Mayor of New York City for three consecutive one-year terms until 1747. 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.
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.
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).
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