Col. Stephen Bayard and Elizabeth Mackay

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Husband Col. Stephen Bayard ¹

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           Born: 23 Jan 1744 - Bohemia Manor, Cecil Co, MD 1
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           Died: 13 Dec 1815 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 1
         Buried:  - First Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA

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         Father: Samuel Bayard (      -      ) 2 3
         Mother: Franscina Malden (      -      ) 1

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Wife Elizabeth Mackay ¹

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         Father: Col. AEneas Mackay (      -1777) 4
         Mother: Unknown (      -      )

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General Notes: Husband - Col. Stephen Bayard

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For a number of years preceding the Revolutionary war he was engaged in mercantile business with his cousin, John Bubenheim Bayard, of Philadelphia, who was a colonel of cavalry during the Revolution, and afterwards, in 1784, Speaker of the House of Assembly of Pennsylvania (the Legislature then consisting of a single house), and in 1785 was elected a member of the Continental Congress.
At the breaking out of the war Stephen Bayard raised a company in Philadelphia, and was commissioned captain Jan. 5, 1776, and was assigned to Col. Arthur St. Clair's Pennsylvania battalion.
After serving as major of his regiment, the Third Pennsylvania, under Col. Richard Butler, on the 30th of June, 1779, he received his commission as lieutenant-colonel, to take rank as such from the 23d day of September, 1777. In the year 1779 the Third Pennsylvania Regiment formed a portion of Gen. Sullivan's force on his expedition against the hostile tribes of Indians-the Cayugas, Oneidas, and Onondagas-on the Susquehanna River, and at the same time another expedition was fitted out and carried forward from Pittsburgh up the Allegheny River against the equally hostile Mingoes, Munceys, and Senecas. This was the Eighth Pennsylvania Regiment, of which Daniel Brodhead was the colonel, and Stephen Bayard the lieutenant-colonel. This regiment advanced two hundred miles up the river, and destroyed the Indian villages, cornfields, etc., on its head branches (vide Marshall's History). In 1781, Stephen Bayard was placed in command of this regiment as colonel commanding at Fort Pitt.
Col. Bayard served his country faithfully and honorably from the beginning to the close of the war, participated in many of its battles, hardships, and privations, and after its termination, and on the disbanding of the army, pleased with the western country, he determined to make it his future home. In company with several Revolutionary officers, he settled in Pittsburgh in 1783, and in the following year formed a partnership with a brother-officer, Maj. Isaac Craig, late of Proctor's artillery regiment, in the mercantile business, with the intention also of dealing in lots and lands. In the year 1784, Craig & Bayard purchased from the Penns the first ground that was sold within the limits of Pittsburgh: three acres upon which old Fort Duquesne stood. They extended their business also by forming a partnership with Messrs. William Turnbull, Peter Marmie, and John Holkar, merchants of Philadelphia.
In the year 1787 an act was passed by the Legislature incorporating the Presbyterian congregation of Pittsburgh. In this act eleven trustees were named, six of whom had been officers in the Revolutionary army, Stephen Bayard being one. He was a devoted member and elder of this branch of the church to the date of his death.
In the spring of 1788 he retired from the mercantile business and settled on his land, of which he had a large tract, on the Monongahela River, fourteen miles above Pittsburgh, and immediately proceeded to lay out a town, which he named Elizabeth, after his wife. Col. Bayard desired to make Elizabeth a point for boat and ship-building, and to this end brought out from Philadelphia a company of skilled workmen, who built the first vessel launched on the waters of the Monongahela. Her name was the "Monongahela Farmer."
Shortly after the declaration of war in 1812, Col. Bayard's services were again sought by the government. President Madison tendered him a major-general's commission, but advanced age and bodily infirmities required that he should decline its acceptance.
A zealous patriot and a fervent Christian, he devoted the best years of his life to the service of his country and his God. He died in Pittsburgh, aged seventy-one years, and was buried in the churchyard of the First Presbyterian Church.

1 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 93.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 53.

3 Roberdeau Buchanan, Genealogy of the McKean Family of Pennsylvania (Lancaster, PA: Inquirer Printing Co., 1890), Pg 142.

4 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 92.