William Bayard Jr.

William Bayard Jr.
Personal details
Born	1761 New York City, New York
Died	September 18, 1826 Westchester, New York
Resting place	Trinity Church Cemetery
Spouse(s)	Elizabeth Cornell (m. 1783; his death 1826)
Relations	See Bayard family Stephen Van Rensselaer (son-in-law)
Children	7
Parents	William Bayard Sr. Catharine McEvers

William Bayard Jr (1761 – September 18, 1826) was a prominent New York City banker and a member of the Society of the New York Hospital. He was a close friend to Alexander Hamilton, who was taken to his Greenwich Village home after his famous duel with Aaron Burr, where Hamilton later died.

Bayard was born in 1761 to Catharine McEvers (1732-1814) and William Bayard Sr. (c. 1727-1804), who was elected as a delegate to the 1765 Stamp Act Congress, and was assigned to the committee that drafted language opposing taxation without representation. However, when the American Revolutionary War broke out in 1775, his father remained loyal to the crown, assisting the British troops that occupied New York City in 1776. Although Bayard Jr. remained in New York after the war, other members of the family had fled, and many the family's properties were confiscated. His siblings included Samuel Vetch Bayard (1757–1832) and Mary Bayard (1779–1849).

Bayard was a member of the prominent Bayard family of French Huguenot ancestry who descended from Balthazar Bayard, a French Protestant, who had taken refuge in the Dutch Republic where the Huguenots found sanctuary from their religious persecution in France. The first Bayards in the New World arrived in the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam with the newly appointed Governor-General Peter Stuyvesant. In the early 18th century, the Bayards became among the largest landowners in the New York-New Jersey area. Bayard was also a descendant of Stephanus Van Cortlandt and the Schuyler family.

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