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Born in Fishkill, New York, Bayard was the daughter of Robert Bayard and Elizabeth McEvers.
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She penned what scholars have called "unremarkable" verse about common subjects. She published frequently in the The Knickerbocker and the Literary World and was identified as a promising young author in a column written by Sarah Josepha Hale. Her papers are in the library of the New York Historical Society.
