a clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal Church, was a son of the Hon. Samuel Bayard, of Princeton, N. J. He graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1809; became rector of Trinity Church, Newark, N. J., in May, 1813; resigned his charge in 1820, and then preached in various places in the surrounding country; was the first Episcopal ministerwho officiated in Paterson, N. J.; and died at Malta, on his return from the Holy Land, Sept. 2, 1840. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 5, 740.