Husband Archibald Bard 1
AKA: Archibald Beard 1 2
Born: - ? County Antrim, Ireland
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Father: David Bard ( - ) 1
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• Residence: "Carroll's Delight": Adams Co, PA.
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Children
1 M Richard Bard 1 3
Born: 8 Feb 1736 1 4
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Died: 22 Feb 1799 1 4
Buried: - Churchill Cemetery, Franklin Co, PA
Spouse: Catherine Poe (1737-1811) 1 5
Marr: 1756 1
2 M William Bard 4
Born: 7 Jun 1738 4
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Died: 31 Jul 1802 4
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3 F [Unk] Bard 4
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Died: in childhood
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Spouse: Did Not Marry
4 M Rev. David Bard 6 7
Born: 1744 - Adams Co, PA 4
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Died: 12 Mar 1815 - Alexandria, Huntingdon Co, PA 4
Buried: - Arch Spring, Sinking Valley, Huntingdon Co, PA
Spouse: Elizabeth Diemer (1752-1824) 6 8
General Notes: Husband - Archibald Bard
He was the emigrant ancestor of the Bards of "Carroll's Delight". He was probably born in County Antrim, Ireland, and was presumably of Scotch antecedants.
In Scotland the family surname has been written Baird for many generations. In Ireland, for a century and a half after the Plantation it was oftener written Beard than Baird. The American family adopted the uniform spelling "Bard", but Archibald, the emigrant ancestor, wrote his name Beard, and his second son, William, signed a deed, on record in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, Baird. His eldest son, Richard, was always Bard when he wrote his own name, but it was often Baird, or Beard, when his name was written by others. The later orthography was in fact only a return to the earlier. From the thirteenth to the sixteenth century the customary spelling was Bard, or Barde.
After his emigration to America, Archibald Beard settled in Delaware. Nothing has been ascertained concerning the residence of Archibald Beard in Delaware, beyond a single reference to it made by A. Boyd Hamilton, who, unfortunately, failed to mention the source of his information. The cause of his removal to "Carroll's Delight" is easily explained. Among his neighbors in Miln Creek Hundred was Jeremiah Lochery, the ancestor of the Lochery family of western Pennsylvania. Beard and Lochery agreed to join with two others, John Witherow and James McGinley, in the purchase of a tract of 5,000 acres of land from Daniel Carroll, of Duddington Manor, in Prince George's county, Maryland, which Carroll had obtained under a grant from Lord Baltimore. To this tract was given the name of "Carroll's Delight." It was in every way worthy of the name. It is a beautiful sweep of country between the Sugar Loaf and Jack's Mountain, in the western part of what is now Adams county, Pennsylvania. On the south and forming a part of the tract is Musselman's Hill. It is coursed by a number of swift-running streams that have their sources in the mountains on the north. One of these, Mud Run, on which Mr. Beard built a mill, comes out of a mountain gorge at the base of the Sugar Loaf, and forms a junction with Middle Creek, east of Musselman's Hill. Another stream a mile to the westward, Tom's Creek, comes out through a gorge at the Western Maryland Railroad horseshoe, on the eastern side of Jack's Mountain. Still another stream, which winds around the base of the mountain on the west and south from Fountaindale, is Miney Branch, which joins Tom's Creek near Mason and Dixon's Line. All of these streams water the splendid vale that Beard, Lochery, Witherow and McGinley bought from Daniel Carroll, in 1741. From the mountain heights the views fully justify the name given to the tract by the original grantee\emdash "Carroll's Delight." Beard, Lochery, Witherow and McGinley divided their extensive purchase to suit themselves. Beard's part was in the forks of Middle Creek, northeast of the later village of Fairfield.