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- Daily Globe, District of Columbia, Wednesday, December 20, 1854
Death of a Distinguished Lady
Mrs. Ann Bayard, of Delaware, died in Philadelphia on the 10th instant, in the seventy-seventh year of her age. Her father, Richard Bassett, was the first United States Senator elected by the State of Delaware. Her husband, James A. Bayard, represented Delaware in both Houses of Congress; in 1801 he was appointed Minister to France; in 1814 he was one of the commissioners who negotiated the treaty of Ghent, and in 1815 was appointed Minister of Russia. He died the same year, Richard Bayard, a son of the deceased Mrs. Bayard, was formerly Charge to Belgium, and James A. Bayard, another son, is at present a United States senator from Delaware.
Land Records4
ER 309 December 17, 1816
Ann Bayard of the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, formerly Ann Bassett, spinster, to Devereux Travers of Dorchester County, Doctor of Medicine: land devised to her by Henry Ennalls deceased, by Last Will and Testament dated July 12, 1791, called "Ennals Ferry", on Newtown Creek and Great Choptank River, on the roads from Cambridge to New Market and from Cambridge to Vienna, containing 163 acres more or less. James A. Bayard Esq. is mentioned as the late husband of the said Ann Bayard.
Witnesses: Richard H. Bayard, Joseph Read.
Swortn to by Joseph Reed and acknowledged by Levin H. Campbell, Attorney for Grantor, before Wm. B. Martin, Chief Judge of the Fourth Judicial District of Maryland.
6 ER 570 April 12, 1821
Ann Bayard of the City of Phildelphia, widow, to George Gillaspy and James A. Bayard: lands in Philadelphia, in Cecil County, Maryland and in the State of Delaware, partly inherited by Ann from her father Richard Bassett Esq., deceased, and 1000 acres in Dorchester County on Choptank River, Cordtown Road, Transquakin Road, and Newtown Creek, hereby conveyed in trust for the beneift of the estate of James A. Bayard Esq., deceased.
Wintesses: Chas. Luken, Mary J. Worthington.
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