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(V) Lewis (3), son of Lewis (2) and Catharine (Staats) Morris, was born at Mor- risania, April 8, 1726, and died there January 22, 1798. He graduated from Yale College in 1746, and preferring the pursuits of private life devoted his attention to the care of his
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Morrisania estate until 1775. Previous to this time his public service was a single term in the New York assembly, and his connection with the militia, in which he attained the rank of colonel. At the outbreak of the revolution he assumed the leadership of the patriotic party in Westchester county. In August, 1774, he headed the delegation from Westchester to the White Plains convention which elected delegates to the congress in Philadelphia. He was the instigator and leading spirit of the celebrated White Plains convention of April II, 1775, which elected him a delegate to the second provincial council to be held in New York, April 20 following; this convention chose him as a representative of the province to the second continental congress which met in Philadelphia, May 10, 1775. Here Mr. Morris served on a committee of which Gen- eral Washington was chairman, to devise ways and means for supplying the colonies with ammunition and military stores. After the adjournment he was sent on a confidential mis- sion to the west to negotiate with the Indians. When Congress resumed its sessions in 1776 he served on several of its principal commit- tees, and was prominent in securing the adop- tion of measures strictly prohibiting inter- course with the English war vessels in the harbor. The ensuing July, with three of his colleagues, William Floyd, Philip Livingston and Francis Lewis, he signed the Declaration of Independence. While Colonel Morris was absent at this famous Congress, the New York provincial congress elected him brigadier-gen- eral of the Westchester county militia. He was a member of the first New York state con- vention, and throughout Washington's West- chester county campaign and at the battle of White Plains, October 28, 1776, he was in active service, taking an important part also in the succeeding winter campaign in New Jer- sey, and being present at the battles of Trenton and Princeton. He was succeeded in the Con- tinental Congress by his younger brother Gouverneur. He was the first judge of West- chester county under the state government, from May 8, 1777, to February 17, 1778, and was one of the first two state senators from Westchester county in 1777. After the close of the revolution he was elected to the New York assembly, and promoted to the rank of major-general of militia. In 1788 he was a member of the Poughkeepsie convention which ratified the constitution of the United States. He married, September 24, 1749, Mary, daugh- ter of Jacob and Maria ( Beekman) Walton of
New York City. Children: I. Lewis, born 1752 ; died November 22, 1824; married Anne Elliott, of Charleston, South Carolina, "the beautiful rebel." 2. Jacob, referred to below. 3. William Walton, born 1760; died April 5, 1832 ; married Sarah Caroender. 4. Staats, married, 1800, Catalina Van Braeme. 5. Rich- ard Valentine, born March 8, 1768; married January 24, 1797, Anne, daughter of Jacob and Mary (Cruger) Walton, his first cousin maternal. 6. Mary, died 1776; married, 1775, Thomas Lawrence. 7. Catharine, died No- vember 23, 1834; married, August 2, 1778, Thomas Lawrence. 8. Sarah. 9. Helena, born 1762; died October 6, 1840; married, October 30, 1782, John Rutherfurd, afterwards United States senator from New Jersey.
(VI) General Jacob, son of Hon. Lewis and Mary (Walton) Morris, was born at Morrisania, December 28, 1755, and died at Butternuts, now Morris, Otsego county, New York, January 10, 1844. His father wished him to pursue a mercantile career and he was educated with that end in view, but joining the army in the revolution, he was aide to General Charles Lee, under whom he fought with distinction at Fort Moultrie and else- where, and also to General Nathanael Greene. After the war he served in both the assembly and senate of the New York legislature. He had the rank of general of militia. As partial compensation to his father, Lewis Morris the Signer, and his uncle Judge Richard Morris, for losses sustained by them in the revolution, the state of New York granted them a tract of thirty thousand acres in what was then Montgomery county, New York. Thither General Jacob Morris removed in 1787, and became the pioneer in the development of that region. He married (first) Mary, daughter of Isaac Cox; (second) Sophia Pringle. Chil- dren, all but one by first marriage: I. Lewis Lee, born 1778; married (first) Elizabeth Gil- bert; (second) Catharine Winter. 2. John Cox, born 1781 ; died unmarried. 3. Richard, born 1782, married Frances Upton. 4. Mary Ann, born 1784; married Isaac Cooper, of Cooperstown. 5. George, died young. 6. Sarah Sabina, referred to below. 7. Susan, died young. 8. Jacob Walton, born 1792 ; mar- ried, and left one child. 9. Catharine Cox, born 1794; married John Holmes Prentiss, of Cooperstown. 10. William Augustus, born 1796 ; accidentally killed in 1818; married Jane Morris. II. James, died young. 12. Charles Valentine, born 1802. 13. William Augustus Pringle, married Harriet Grannis.
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(VII) Sarah Sabina, daughter of General Jacob and Mary (Cox) Morris, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1788. She mar- ried, February 18, 1813, Peter Philip James, son of John and Susan (Livingston) Kean, q. v. above.
(The Halsted Line).
Timothy Halsted, founder of the family of his name in New Jersey, emigrated from Eng- land to America as early as 1660, and settled at Hempstead, Long Island. He removed to Elizabethtown, where he died between May 23, 1734, and April 14, 1735. Children : Tim- othy; John; Jacob; Jonas; Caleb, referred to below; Hannah, married Jacob Mitchel ; Abi- gail, married - Painter ; Charity, married
Haywood; Rebecca, married Higgins; Amy; Elizabeth, married Jonathan Allen.
(II) Caleb, son of Timothy Halsted, died before March 26, 1721, when letters of admin- istration on his estate were granted to his widow Jane, who was probably the Jane Hal- sted who married later John Clauson, of Perth Amboy. After March 24, 1728, she married Thomas Ogden, and died December 8, 1760, in her sixtieth year.
(III) Caleb (2), son of Caleb (I) and Jane Halsted was born July 8, 1721, and died in Elizabethtown, June 4, 1784. He lived at Halsted's Point, and married, September 16, 1744, Rebecca, daughter of Robert (I) and Hannah (Crane) Ogden, who was born June 16, 1729, and died March 31, 1806. Children : I. Robert, M. D., born September 13, 1746; died November 25, 1825; married (first) April 15, 1773, Mary Wiley; (second) Octo- ber I, 1787, Mary, daughter of Rev. William Mills, who died at Jamaica, Long Island, 1774. 2. William, born April 23, 1748; died Novem- ber 22, 1794, married Phebe Meeker. 3. Sarah, born June 20, 1750; married, May, 1775, Samuel Smith. 4. Caleb, M. D., born September 15, 1752; died August 18, 1727; married Abigail Lyon. 5. John, born July 12, 1754, died in May, 1841; married Phebe Wade. 6. Elihu, born July 12, 1754; died June 16, 1810; married Eunice Ward. 7. Phebe, born July 5, 1757; died October II, 1795; married Major John Wiley. 8. Mat- thias, referred to below. 9. Ann, or Nancy, born May 21, 1761; died August 20, 1824; married Joseph Camp. Io. Mary, born Janu- ary 20, 1763; died June 1I, 1835; married, September, 1790, John R. Mills. II. Jacob, born April 28, 1767; died May 27, 1772. 12.
Jonathan, born December 21, 1769; died De- cember 21, 1814; married Isabella Neil.
(IV) Matthias, son of Caleb (2), and Re- becca (Ogden) Halsted, was born May 12, 1759, died December 17, 1824. He was brigade major on the staff of General Winds, aide-de-camp to General Dickinson, and Quar- termaster in the Continental army during the revolution. He married Nancy Norris. Chil- dren: Nathaniel Norris, born October 19, 1790, died July 24, 1816, married Lucretia Perrine; Caleb Ogden, referred to below.
(V) Caleb Ogden, son of Matthias and Nancy (Norris) Halsted, was born June 13, 1792, and died October 7, 1860. He was president of the Manhattan Company's Bank, and the first president of the Clearing House in New York City. He married, in December, 1823, Caroline Louise, daughter of Dr. Aaron and Anna Bowne ( Provoost) Pitney, who was born in August, 1796, and died July 1, 1897 ; (see Pitney in index). Children : I. Pitney, born October 6, 1824; died August 3, 1825. 2. Lucy, baptized Lucinetta, referred to below. 3. Caroline, born June 3, 1827; died 1848; married, 1846, William Henry Morris. 4. Edwin, born January 9, 1829; died October 17, 1829. 5. Theodore, born September 1I, 1830; died in October 1831.
(VI) Lucy or Lucinetta, daughter of Caleb Ogden and Caroline Louise (Pitney) Halsted, was born November 10, 1825, in New York City ; married, January 13, 1847, John, son of Peter Philip James and Sarah Sabina (Nor- ris) Kean.
(The Fish Line).
Colonel Nicholas Fish was born in New York City in 1758 and died there in 1833. He entered but did not graduate from Princeton University, and took up the study of law with John Morris Scott Esq. He was one of the organizers of the Sons of Liberty, and in 1776 was appointed by his old preceptor in law, Brigadier-general Scott, as one of his aides- de-camp. At the close of the revolution he had risen to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He was division inspector under Steuben in 1778; took part in the battles of Saratoga and Monmouth ; in Sullivan's expedition against the Indians in 1779, and in the Virginia and Yorktown campaigns. For many years from 1786 he was adjutant-general of New York state; in 1794 Washington appointed him supervisor of Federal revenue in New York City ; in 18II he was elected as Federalist can- didate for lieutenant-governor of New York;
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and during the war of 1812 he served as a Emily Mann. 7. Stuyvesant, married Marion member of the city committee of defense. G. Anthon. 8. Edith Livingston. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Petrus and Margaret (Livingston ) Stuyvesant, a descend- ant on her father's side of Balthazar and BAYARD Margaret (Hardenstein) Stuyvesant, whose daughter Anna married Samuel Bayard and became the mother of the founders of that family in America, and whose son Petrus was the famous governor of New Nether- land and the founder of the Stuyvesant family in America, his wife being a sister to Samuel Bayard. On her mother's side Eliz- abeth (Stuyvesant) Fish was a granddaughter of Gilbert and Martha (Kane) Livingston ; (see Livingston above, and Kane in index ).
(II) Hamilton, baptized Alexander Hamil- ton, son of Colonel Nicholas and Elizabeth (Stuyvesant) Fish, was born in New York City in 1808, and died there in 1893. He graduated from Columbia College in 1827, studied law, and was admitted to the New York bar in 1830. In 1842 he was elected to congress as a Whig. In 1846 he was the Whig nominee for lieutenant-governor, but antag- onizing the "anti-renters" he was defeated, though his ticket was successful. In the fol- lowing year, however, his successful Demo- cratic rival, having been appointed to the bench, Mr. Fish was elected for the unexpired term. In 1848 he was elected governor of New York on the Whig ticket, and in 1851 United States senator. After a three years' sojourn in Europe he returned to make an active campaign for Lincoln's election, and in 1862, with Bishop Ames, he was a commis- sioner to visit Richmond and other cities with- in the Confederate lines to relieve Federal prisoners. From 1869 to 1877 he was secre- tary of state under Grant. In 1871 he negotiated and signed the treaty of Washing- ton with Great Britain. He was prominent in the "Alabama Claims" arbitration, success- fully settled with Great Britain the long standing Northwest boundary dispute, and the complications growing out of the "Virginius" affair, and inaugurated extensive reforms in the consular service. He married, in 1836, Julia Ursin Niemciewitz, daughter of Peter Philip James, and Sarah Sabina ( Morris) Kean ; (see Kean). Children : 1. Sarah Mor- ris, married Sidney Webster. 2. Elizabeth Stuyvesant, married Frederic Sears Grand d'Hauteville. 3. Julia Kean, married Samuel Nicoll Benjamin. 4. Susan Le Roy, married William E. Rogers. 5. Nicholas, married Clemence Stephens. 6. Hamilton, married
Samuel Bayard, the founder of this family in America, although he himself died be- fore his widow and children emigrated, is said to have been the son of Rev. Balthazar Bayard, "a French Protestant divine and professor." A relationship has also been claimed for him with the famous Pierre du Terrail, best known as the Seigneur de Bayard, or the Chevalier Bayard, the knight "sans peur et sans reproche ;" but as the Chevalier died April 30, 1524, unmarried and without issue, the rela- tionship if it exists must be collateral. He married Anna, daughter of Rev. Balthazar and Margaret ( Hardenstein ) Stuyvesant, and sister to Petrus Stuyvesant, the famous director-general of New Netherlands, whose own wife was a sister to Samuel Bayard, his brother-in-law. The widow, Anna (Stuy- vesant) Bayard, accompanied her brother to New Amsterdam in the "Princess" in 1647, bringing with her her four children. She was "a person of imposing presence, highly edu- cated, with great business capacity and possessing a somewhat imperious temper, not unlike that of her worthy brother." She was also "greatly respected by the public and well known for her many acts of charity and kind- ness." The most notable instance of this latter was perhaps her compassionate interference in 1657, in the case of the Quaker Robert Hodgson. Children: Petrus, referred to below; Balthazar, married, 1664, Maria Loockermans; Nicholas, referred to below ; Catharine.
(II) Petrus, son of Samuel and Anna (Stuyvesant) Bayard, was born at Alphen, South Holland, about 1635, and died in New Amsterdam, 1699. He engaged successfully in mercantile pursuits and also invested to a considerable extent in real estate. He made his home at the present corner of Broadway . and Exchange Place. In 1667 he purchased a large tract of land in Ulster county, New York, and in 1675 obtained a patent from Gov- ernor Andros for the land at Bombay Hook, which four years later he purchased from the Indians. He then cast in his lot with a party of Labardists, and with them purchased the four necks of land thereafter known as the Labadie Tract of Bohemia Manor, in Cecil county, Maryland. Petrus Bayard became a member of the Dutch Church in New Amster- dam, August 30, 1674, and five years later was.
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one of its deacons. He married, November 4 or 28, 1674, Blandina, daughter of Hans and Sarah (Roelofs) Kierstede, who died in 1702. Her grandparents were Jan and Anneke (Jans) Roelofs, the latter the celebrated widow of Dominie Evarardus Bogardus, as whose heiress she received the "Dominie's Bouwerie" which has been the subject of the celebrated Anneke Jans litigation for over two hundred years. Children : Samuel, referred to below; Peter, married Rachel Van Bael ; Sarah, married Abraham Gassbeck.
(III) Samuel, son of Petrus and Blandina ( Kierstede ) Bayard, was born in New Am- sterdam, in 1675, and died November 23, 1721, in Bohemia Manor, Cecil county, Maryland, whither he had removed with his brother-in- law, Hendrick Sluyter, in 1698. The sub- stantial brick mansion which he built is still in possession of the Bayards, though for a time it passed into other hands and returned to them at a later period through the marriage of James Asheton Bayard (2) and Ann Bas- sett. He married (first) Elizabeth Sluyter, (second) Susanna Bouchelle, who survived him and died November 21, 1750. Children : Anna Maria, died January 12, 1716; Peter, known as "Colonel Peter Bayard;" Samuel ; James, referred to below ; Mary Ann, married Dr. Sluyter Bouchelle.
(IV) James, son of Samuel Bayard, came into possession of the "Great House" in Bohemia Manor at his mother's death, and here spent his life, one of the most influential and active citizens of eastern Maryland. He married Mary Asheton. Children: John Bubenheim and James Asheton, both referred to below ; daughter, died unmarried, at seven- teen years old, although engaged to Rev. John Rodgers, who afterward married her cousin, Elizabeth Bayard.
(V) John Bubenheim, as as he is better known, Colonel John, son of James and Mary (Asheton) Bayard, was born in the "Great House," Bohemia Manor, Maryland, August II, 1738, and died in New Brunswick, New Jersey, January 7, 1807. With his twin brother, James Asheton Bayard, he was sent to the famous Nottongham Institution in Maryland, then under the supervision of Rev. Samuel Finley, D. D., afterwards president of the College of New Jersey. Subsequently the brothers were placed under the private tute- lage of Rev. George Duffield, the latter the famous Presbyterian theologian. At the age of eighteen the brothers went to Philadelphia, the elder John Bayard (who dropped his mid-
dle name Bubenheim) to enter the counting- house of John Rhea, and the younger, James Asheton Bayard, to study medicine under the tutelage of Dr. Thomas Cadwalader. Thus, nearly twenty years before the Declaration of Independence, the Bayard name became firmly established in the Quaker City by two men of strong character and large abilities, though the younger brother died before attaining middle age. John Bayard early engaged in mercan- tile pursuits upon his own account and became one of the leading importers and merchants of Philadelphia. Later he entered into part- nership with his father-in-law, Andrew Hodge. Together with other prominent busi- ness men of the city he protested against the exactions of the British government, and his name appears near the head of the list of those who signed the non-importation agreement of October 25, 1765. When the period of aggression took the place of that of protesta- tion, John Bayard was found at the forefront of the struggle. He was appointed a member of the committee of correspondence named at the conference of June 18, 1774; was a dele- gate of the provincial convention which met at Carpenters' Hall, July 15, 1774, to elect representatives to the first Continental con- gress ; attended the provincial convention of January 23, 1775, and in many ways prior to the inauguration of actual hostilities evinced his determination not to submit to the unjust demands of the mother country. He had early identified himself with the Sons of Liberty, which patriotic organization had rendered incalcuable service in arousing the colonists and in disseminating information bearing upon the progress of events. Upon this point a writer has said: "John Adams tells us that Bayard early joined the Sons of Liberty, and in his diary mentions him as one of a com- mittee of that association, who, with Drs. Rush and Mifflin, intercepted at Frankford, near Philadelphia, the members of congress in 1775 from the north as they came, for the purpose of influencing them to choose Washington as commander-in-chief of the army. Adams makes certain other references in his diary of Bayard. These brief ones are of interest as indicating his position in Philadelphia, socially and otherwise, at the important period in question : August 31, 1774. Wednesday. Breakfasted at Mr. Bayard's at Philadelphia, with Mr. Sprout, a Presbyterian minister. September 27, 1774. Tuesday. Dined at Mr. Bayard's with Dr. Cox, Dr. Rush, Mr. Hodge, Mr. Deane, Colonel Dyer. Dr. Cox gave a
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toast: 'May the fair dove of liberty, in this deluge of despotism find rest to the sole of her foot in America.'" His firm, Hodge & Bayard, was, we are told, engaged in furnishing arms to congress, and the privateer that took one of the first valuable prizes was fitted out largely by him. Among the privateers which he was mainly instrumental in equipping were the "Congress," the "General Lee" and the "Colonel Parry." John Bayard served upon all three of the governing bodies which suc- cessively dominated governmental affairs in Pennsylvania during the revolution-the com- mittee of safety, the council of safety and the supreme executive council. But he was not alone a legislator or civil executive during the stirring period under consideration. In 1775 three battalions of Associators were organized in Philadelphia, and Bayard was commissioned major of the second, being subsequently pro- moted to the colonelcy, and saw much active service during the ensuing two years. From his camp at Bristol, December 13, 1776, shortly before Washington's crossing the Delaware, Colonel Bayard thus wrote to the council of safety: "We are greatly distressed to find no more of the militia of the state joining General Washington at this time; for God's sake what shall we do; is the cause deserted by our state, and shall a few Brave men offer their Lives as a Sacrifice against treble their number with- out assistance? For my own part, I came cheerfully out, not doubting we should be joined by a number sufficient to drive our Enemy back, with Shame, Despair and Loss. I am far from thinking our cause desperate, if our people would but turn out. If I thought I could be of any service, I would leave my Battalion and come down for a little while; for God's sake exert yourselves." Colonel Bayard remained with his command, however, and within twoweeks participating in the aggressive movements in New Jersey which gave so much encouragement to the American cause. For his services at the battle at Prince- ton, January 3. 1777, Bayard received the personal thanks of Washington. During the year 1777 Colonel Bayard divided his time between his military and civil duties. He was appointed March 13 of that year to the respon- sible post of member of the state board of war, and four days later was elected speaker of the assembly, and was re-elected the follow- ing year. When in September, 1777, upon the approach of the British under Howe, the Continental and state officials withdrew from Philadelphia Bayard resumed his military
duties, and participated in the battles of Brandywine and Germantown. Later, when hostilities were practically discontinued for the winter, he again returned to the performance of his executive functions. In an official capacity he visited Valley Forge, and under date of December 4, 1777, thus wrote Presi- dent Wharton concerning the lamentable con- dition of the colonial troops: "There are above one-third that have neither breeches, shoes, stockings, or blankets and who by these means are rendered unable to do duty, or in- deed to keep the field. It is truly distressing to see these poor naked fellows encamped on bleak hills ; and yet when any prospect of an action with the enemy offers, these brave men appear full of spirit and eager for engaging." In 1780 Colonel Bayard served as a member of a committee to report the causes of the falling off in the state revenues; October 13, 1781, was chosen to a seat in the supreme executive council, serving until November 4, 1782; was commissioned a judge of the high court of appeals, March 15, 1783; was elected a mem- ber of the Continental congress in 1785, taking his seat November 22, etc. In 1788, having retired from active business, he removed from Philadelphia to New Brunswick, New Jersey, where he built a handsome residence in which he entertained many distinguished guests. In 1790 he was made mayor of New Brunswick, and not long afterward was commissioned judge of the court of common pleas of Somer- set county. Colonel John Bayard married (first) July 5, 1759, Margaret, born May 7, 1740, died April 13, 1780, daughter of Andrew and Jane (McCulloch) Hodge. He married (second) May 1, 1781, May (Grant) Hodg- den, widow of John Hodgden of South Caro- lina, who died August 13, 1785. He married (third), about 1787, Joanna, daughter of An- thony and Elizabeth (Morris) White, who survived her husband twenty-seven years. Children, thirteen by first marriage, and two by second: I. James Asheton, born May 5, 1760, died, June, 1788; married Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. John and Elizabeth (Bayard) Rodgers. 2. Andrew, born Febru- ary 24, 1761 ; died December 1, 1832; married Sarah, daughter of Charles and Sarah (Reed) Pettitt. 3. William, died in infancy. 4. John Murray, born March II, 1765; died April 9,
1823; married Margaret Carrick. 5. Samuel, referred to below. 6. Joseph, died in infancy. 7. Jane, born July 12, 1772; died February 16, 1851 ; married Andrew, son of David and Mary (McEowen) Kirkpatrick. 8. Mary,
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died in infancy. 9. Nicholas James, referred to below. 10. Susanna, died in infancy. II. Margaret, born February 20, 1778; died June 7, 1844; married Samuel Harrison Smith, of Philadelphia. 12. Anna Maria, born March 22, 1779 ; died November, 1869; married Sam- uel Boyd, of New York ; she was the last sur- viving child of Colonel John Bayard. 13. Hugh, died in infancy. 14. William Grant, died in infancy. 15. William Grant (2d), died in infancy.
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