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Born June 2, 1819; died Washington, D. C., February 12, 1899. He founded St. Stephen's College and Holy Innocents Church, Annandale, N. Y., giving for these purposes eighteen acres of land, and sixty thousand dollars. They were erected on part of his estate. Married first, Margaret Taylor Johnston, May 17, 1849. She born November 23, 1825; died, Rome, Italy, April 10, 1875. children: Emily, Caroline, William, and Rosalie de Normandie.

Married second, Annie Belcher, October 18, 1886. One child: Marjorie, born September 20, 1887.

Emily Bard, born July 13, 1851; married Charles Buyamen Lutyens, September 28, 1886. Five children: Charles Graeme, Eadred John Tenant, born July 1891; Lionel, born July, 1897; Enderby Gordon, and Margaret Sylvia.

Caroline Bard, born February 15, 1855; died November 17, 1879.
William Bard, born February 29, 1856; died February 17, 1868.

Rosalie De Normandie Bard, born September 15, 1867; married Charles A. Moran, October 14, 1891. Three children: Rosalie Bard, born September 27, 1892; Charles Blake, born June 30, 1894; Bard, born July 26, 1900.

12. Mary Bard, 2nd

Born April 15, 1821; married Arthur B. Morris. She died September 14, 1847. No children.

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Married George Kneeland, October 3, 1839. She died January 6, 1852. He was the third son of Henry and Ann (Taylor) Kneeland, and was born about 1810. *Account of her and family from the "Kneeland Genealogy."

His principal residence was in New York City, but he had a country seat at Hyde Park, N. Y., where he died in 1850. Four children: Elizabeth, Euphemia, Mary, and John Henry.

Elizabeth Kneeland, born Friday, July 31, 1840; married Wednesday, October 8, 1862, to Charles Handfield Wyatt, of Baltimore, youngest child of William Edward Wyatt, D.D. Four children: Eliza Kneeland, born March 24, 1864, married Tiffany, one child; Charles Handfield, born October 11, 1866; John McVickar, born July 9, 1867, died January 1, 1891, unmarried; Frances, born January 1, 1869, unmarried.

Euphemia Kneeland, born, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., February 13, 1842; married at Trinity Chapel, New York City, September 19, 1865, to Charles Coolidge Haight, architect, of New York, only son of Benjamin T. Haight (Reverend) assistant Rector of Trinity Church, New York, born in that city, March 17, 1841; graduated from Columbia College in the class of 1861; studied at the law school of Columbia; enlisted and served with the 7th Regiment in Baltimore in 1862; served with the 31st New York Volunteers as First Lieutenant and Adjutant from October, 1862, and as Captain of the 39th New York Volunteers, from December, 1863, to November, 1864; was severely wounded while in command of his regiment in the Battle of the Wilderness, and in consequence obliged to retire from active service. He was elected and served as Vice-Commodore of the New York Yacht Club in 1886, and re-elected the following year. He is a Trustee of the New York Society Library, of the Society for the Promotion of Religion and Learning, and of the Corporation for the Relief of Widows and Children of Deceased Clergymen. Among the prominent buildings designed by him are those erected by Columbia College on its Madison Avenue property; the Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital; the New York Cancer Hospital; the buildings of the General Theological Seminary, New York; the American Theatre, New York; Vanderbilt Hall and Phelps Hall at Yale University; The Keney Memorial Tower at Hartford, Conn., and others. He also erected the new Episcopal Church of St. Ignatius, New York. Mrs. Haight died in October, 1909. Four children: Euphemia McVickar, born at Irvington-on-theHudson, August 20, 1866, died in New York City, April 23, 1893; Sarah Bard, born at Orange, N. J., February 8, 1869; Charles Sidney, born at New York, May 11, 1877, married Miss Folsom in 1900; John McVickar, born at New York, October 1882.

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Mary Kneeland, born at New York, March 16, 1845; married Albert McNulty, of New York, October 1, 1867. She died January 5, 1910. Nine children: George Kneeland, born December 5, 1871; Frank Pendleton, born March 17, 1873; Henry Augustus, born February 22, 1874; Mary Bard, born September 5, 1876, died March 14, 1888; Allan Bertram, born July 18, 1878, died March 29, 1888; Dorothea Noël, born December 25, 1880; John Archibald, born April 14, 1883; Eleanor Susan, born July 17, 1885; Donald Stuart, born December 6, 1891.

John Henry Kneeland, born at Columbia College Place, New York City, May 11, 1847; died November 13, 1888. He married September 28, 1871, Arabella C., daughter of Edward Gustace Fishbourne,* youngest son of William Fishbourne, of Holly Mount, Queen's County, Ireland, and Elizabeth Nevell, daughter of William Nevell, of Ballmoney, County Wicklow. Two children: Charles Gustace, born March 25, 1875; Frederick Nevell, born October 4, 1877.

*The original name was de Fissebourne. The family settled in Ireland in the time of Cromwell. They were descendants of Hugh Puset (or Pudsey) first Bishop of Durham.

7. Sarah Bard McVickar

Married Edward Payson Lee. No children.

8. Susan Johnstone McVickar

Died January 8, 1886; unmarried.

9. William Augustus McVickar

Born April 6, 1826; married Frances Elizabeth Booth, October 15, 1857. He died September 26, 1887, at which time he was Rector of Christ Church, New York City. Four children: William Bard, Henry Whitney, Frances, died in infancy; Anna, born August 6, 1866, unmarried.

William Bard McVickar, born, Irvington-on-Hudson, October 14, 1858; married Mary Louise, daughter of George MacCullough Miller, May 18, 1892. He died, Morristown, N. J., March 30, 1901. Three children: Phyllis, born June 7, 1893; Elizabeth Hoffman, born February 14, 1895; John Bard, born December 4, 1896.

"Mr. McVickar was graduated at Columbia University in 1880, and at the Columbia Law School, and was admitted to the bar in 1882. He studied law in the office of the late Stephen P. Nash, and for several years he was associated with John E. Parsons in the practice of law. In 1897 he organized the firm of Marshall, Moran, Williams & McVickar. Mr. McVickar was a contributor to 'Life' and other periodicals, and had published a book of poems entitled 'Lays of a Lawyer.'

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Henry Whitney McVickar, born September 2, 1860; married Maud, daughter of Henry Asher Robbins, January 14, 1891. No children.

2. Peter Bard

Peter, a son of Suzanne Valleau and John Bard, born, Philadelphia, Pa., February, 1744. Baptised March 15, 1744, at Christ Church, Philadelphia, Pa. He died in June, 1769; buried at St. Mary's Church, Burlington, N. J., June 14, 1769.

3. William Bard

William, a son of Suzanne Valleau and John Bard. No records.

4. John Bard

John, a son of Suzanne Valleau and John Bard, married Mary Grover, October II, 1792.† Six children. Records of four of them from a tombstone in Trinity Churchyard, New York City:

I. Ann Magdalene Bard, d. April 12, 1796, aged 9
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II. Silvanus Grover Bard, d. Oct. 21, 179-, aged 6

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IV. Mary Grover Bard, d. July 29, 1800, aged 5 years,

4 mos. and 20 days.

Also from another stone in the same churchyard:

V. Susannah Valleau Bard, d. Thurs. morning, May

15, 1800, aged 6 years & 5 mos.

* Appleton's "Annual Cyclopedia" for 1901.

† Marriage recorded at Trinity Church, New York City.

The above were copied many years ago, and gradually became undecipherable. The stones have now disappeared. They were situated near the grave of Theodore B. Valleau.*

VI. Susan Mary Bard, the last child of John Bard and

Mary Grover; died young.

John Bard was a merchant of New York City, where he died in 1804. His will dated August 18, 1800, and probated January 12, 1804, named his wife, Mary, legatee, and mentions his sisters, Mrs. Muirson, Mrs. Pendleton and Mrs. Pierce. His brother, Samuel, and brother-in-law, Nathaniel Pendleton, were the executors. He was an associator† of Rhinebeck precinct, Dutchess County, N. Y., in 1775. During the Revolution he was "Captain of the 2nd Georgia Regiment; taken prisoner at Savannah, Dec. 29, 1778; prisoner on parole, 1779 and 1780; did not rejoin the Army; removed to New York in 1799." He was a member of the Society of the Cincinnati.

5. Magdalena Bard

Magdalena, a daughter of Suzanne Valleau and John Bard, born 1751; married Mr. Muirson (Reverend), a Chaplain in the English Army. She died March 3, 1843. No children.

6. Ann Bard

Ann, a daughter of Suzanne Valleau and John Bard, married John Pierce, a Colonel in the Continental Army, November 16, 1786. She was married in Trinity Church, New York City. It was a great society event, as previously it was the custom to have weddings solemnized at home. No children.

7. Archibald Bard

Archibald, a son of Suzanne Valleau and John Bard, was baptised at Trinity Church, New York City, May 1, 1759. No further record.

8. Susan Bard

Susan, a daughter of Suzanne Valleau and John Bard, married Nathaniel Pendleton, September 22, 1785. She died January 16, 1816. He born 1746; died, New York City, October 20, 1821. Five children: Edmund H., Nathaniel Greene, Anna Pierce, James Muirson, and John Bard.

* A son of Theodorus Valleau and Elizabeth Burke.

† Associators were companies of patriots banded together to repel the attacks of the British. From "Register of Officers of the Continental Army, 1775-1783," by F. B. Heitman.

§ Nathaniel Pendleton entered the Revolutionary Army when nineteen years of age, and served as Major on the staff of General Nathaniel Greene. He afterwards studied law and settled in Georgia, where he became United States District Judge; removed to New York in 1796, and finally attained to eminence at the bar, becoming a Judge of Dutchess County, N. Y.

The Pendletons.-In 1674, there came from Manchester, Lancashire, England, two brothers, Nathaniel and Philip Pendleton, who settled in Virginia. Nathaniel died without issue.

Philip Pendleton, born in Norwich, England, 1650; married in 1682, Isabella Hurt or Hart; and died in 1721. He left three sons and four daughters; the two younger sons married and had children, but there is no certain account of them; the four daughters married respectively, Messrs. Clayton, Vass, Taylor, and Thomas. Philip's oldest son, Henry, born 1683, married at the age of eighteen (in 1701), Mary, daughter of James Taylor, of Carlisle, England, who was then but thirteen. Henry died in May, 1721; his wife married second, Ed. Watkins, and died in 1770.

Henry Pendleton and Mary Taylor had seven children, viz.: James, born in 1702; Philip, Nathaniel, John, Edmund, Mary, and Isabella. Edmund, the fifth son, a Colonial statesman, and President of the Virginia Court of Appeals, was born in Caroline County, Va., and died in Richmond, Va., October 23, 1803. Mary and Isabella married, respectively, James Gaines and William H. Gaines; the latter had a grandson, General Edmund Pendleton Gaines, War of 1812.

Nathaniel, the third son of Henry Pendleton and Mary Taylor, born 1715, lived in Culpepper County, Va., where he died in 1794. He married his second cousin, a daughter of Philip Clayton. They had seven children, viz.: Nathaniel, William, Henry, Philip, Mary, Elizabeth, and Susanna. Nathaniel, the first son, married Susan, daughter of Suzanne Valleau and John Bard, M.D.

This short account of the Pendleton family was compiled from "Bishop Meade's Hist. of the Prot. Epis. Ch. in Va.," and from "Genealogical and Historical Notes on Culpepper Co., Va.," embracing a revised and enlarged edition of "Dr. Philip Slaughter's Hist. of St. Mark's Parish," by Richard Travers Green, 1900. For a very extended account of the Pendletons in Virginia, these books should be consulted.

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Children of Susan Bard and Nathaniel Pendleton

1. Edmund H. Pendleton

Born January, 1791; married Frances M., daughter of John Jones, January 11, No children.

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Born, Savannah, Ga., August 24, 1793; died, Cincinnati, O., June 16, 1861. Married first, Cincinnati, O., Jane Frances, daughter of Jesse Hunt, of Hunterdon County, N. J., May 10, 1820. She born 1803; died 1839. Nine children: Susan Louisa, Martha Eliza, George Hunt, Edmund H., Richard Elliott Hunt, Anna Pierce, Nathaniel, Frances Jones, and Jesse Hunt.

Married second, Chillicothe, O., Ann James, May 12, 1841. Two children: Charlotte and Edmund.

Nathaniel Greene Pendleton served in the War of 1812, as aide to General Edmund Pendleton Gaines, 1813-16. Admitted to the bar of New York City; removed to Ohio in 1818; was City Attorney of Cincinnati; elected State Senator of Ohio, 1825, and re-elected 1827; member and President of the City Council of Cincinnati, 1832-33; elected to United States Congress as a Whig, 1840.

3. Anna Pierce Pendleton

Born 1796; married Archibald Rogers, May 18, 1820. She died, Hyde Park, N. Y., December 26, 1883. He was a son of Moses Rogers and Sarah Woolsey, born 1793; died, Hyde Park, N. Y., February 10, 1850. Seven children: Nathaniel Pendleton, Julia Anne, Archibald, Edmund Pendleton, Philip Clayton, Archibald, 2nd, and Susan Bard.

4. James Muirson Pendleton, M.D.

Married Margaret, daughter of Joshua Jones, January 27, 1825. One child: James Muirson, who married Gertrude, daughter of Augustus James, October 15, 1850, but left no children.

Died; left no children.

5. John Bard Pendleton

Children and Descendants of Nathaniel Greene

Second Child of Susan Bard and Nathaniel Pendleton

I. Susan Louisa Pendleton

Born, Cincinnati, O., February 23, 1821; married there, Robert Bonner Bowler, of that city, son of Major Fairchild Bowler, of Rhode Island, and Barbara (née Bonner), of North Carolina, October 20, 1842. She died, Cincinnati, O., February 6, 1877. Six children: Nathaniel Pendleton, George Pendleton, Jesse Hunt, Jane Hunt, Robert Bonner, and Louisa Foote.

Nathaniel Pendleton Bowler, born, Cincinnati, O., September 20, 1843; died there, July 15, 1845.

George Pendleton Bowler, born, Cincinnati, O., February 22, 1846; married, Paris, France, May, daughter of George T. and Jane Taylor Williamson, of Cincinnati, O., October 15, 1867. He died, Paris, France, March 23, 1878. She died,

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