Petrus Bayard (bef. 1646 - aft. 1688)

Born before 1 Jul 1646 in Alphen aan den Rijn, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

Ancestors

Husband of Blandina Kierstede — married 28 Nov 1674 in New York

Descendants

Died after 1688 after age 41 in New York City, New York County, New York [uncertain]

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Biography

Petrus, son of and Anna (Stuyvesant) Bayard became the possessor of property on Bohemia Manor. ^[1]

In 1686 Pieter Bayard and Blandina Kietstede were living in Beede Weg (Broadway) as per list of LIST OF MEMBERS OF THE DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH IN NEW YORK IN 1686, Arranged According to the Streets of the City By DOMINE HENRICUS SELYNS IN 1686.^[2]

Baptism

Petrus Bayard was baptized July 1, 1646 in Alphen, son of Samuel Bayard and Anneke Stuyfzant. ^[3]

Marriage

Petrus Bayard married Blandina Kierstede about 28 November 1674 in New Orange (New York City).

Ingeschreven: den 04 Nov, Petrus Bayard, j.m. Van Alphen, en Blandina Kierstede, j.d. Van N. Orangien, beyde wonende alhier. Getrouwt: den 28 dicto. (Registered: 04 Nov, Petrus Bayard, groom from Alphen, and Blandina Kierstede, bride from Nieuw Orangien (New Orange), living here. Married: 28 same)^[4]

Labadist Involvement

In 1683, upon invitation of Ephraim Herman, son of Augustus Herrman, a Labadist convert, the two Labadist missionaries in the New World Peter Sluyter (alias Vorstman), and Jasper Danckers (alias Schilders, of Friesland) returned to Maryland, bringing with them the nucleus of a colony. Ephram's father, Augustine Herrman, refused to consummate the sale of his land to them, and they only succeeded in obtaining what has since been known as the Labadie tract, by recourse to law. The deed was executed to Peter Sluyter (alias Vorstman), Jasper Danckers (alias Schilders, of Friesland), Petrus Bayard, of New York, and John Moll and Arnold de la Grange in company. This deed is dated August 11, 1684. The tract conveyed embraced four necks of land eastwardly from the first creek that empties into Bohemia River, from the north or northeast to near the old St. Augustine or Manor Church. It contained thirty-seven hundred and fifty acres. Those who were associated with Sluyter and Danckers in this land transaction were all professed converts to Labadism. Soon after they had received the deed of the land, Moll and la Grange conveyed their interest in it to Sluyter and Danckers.^[5]

Petrus Bayard and Ephraim Herrman had both separated from their wives on embracing Labadism. Herrman left the movement and returned to his wife some time before the death of his father, Augustine, in 1686; Bayard retained his involvement in the Labadists and his interest in the tract until 1688, when he seems to have left the community and returned to his wife and family.^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ From Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania
2. ↑ http://www.ancestralcurios.com/selyns_list_1686.htm
3. ↑ "Netherlands, Zuid-Holland Province, Church Records, 1076-1916," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99QJ-3XN?cc=2037907&wc=SMMK-C6X%3A1292923701%2C345944001%2C347394601 : 21 August 2014), Nederlands Hervormde > Alphen aan den Rijn > Dopen 1622-1817 > image 174 of 918; Rijksarchiefdienst Nederlands, Zuid-Holland (Netherlands National Archives, Zuid-Holland).
4. ↑ Samuel S. Purple. Marriages from 1639 to 1801 in the Reformed Dutch Church, New York In Collections of the New-York Genealogical and Biographical Society. Vol. I; p. 39. New York: Printed for the Society, 1890.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} James, Bartlett Burleigh, PhD. The Labadist Colony in Maryland. Publisher: Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, June 1899.

• Jordan, John W. Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania, Vol. 1 (Lewis Historical Pub. Co., New York, 1915, p. 49-54)