Bayard family

Bayard
Arms: A chevron between 3 escallops
Crest: A demi-horse, argent
Motto: Amor honor et justitia.
Current regionUnited States
Connected familiesStuyvesant family
Schuyler family
Van Rensselaer family
Van Cortlandt family
Stevens family

The Bayard family has been a prominent family of lawyers and politicians throughout American history, primarily from Wilmington, Delaware. Beginning as Federalists, they joined the party of Andrew Jackson and remained leaders of the Democratic Party into the 20th century. Counting Richard Bassett, the father-in-law of James A. Bayard Sr., the family provided six generations of U.S. senators from Delaware, serving from 1789 until 1929.