page_title: Samuel Bayard
section_title: Port Williams
hierarchical_section_title: Samuel Bayard / Career / Port Williams
caption_attribution_description: English: Fort Hughes, Starr's Point, Nova Scotia
context_page_description: Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Vetch Bayard was a Loyalist military officer in the American Revolution who served in the King's Orange Rangers. He is the son of William Bayard who founded the KOR. He was the grandson of Governor Samuel Vetch and was the father of Robert Bayard.
context_section_description: At Port Williams, Nova Scotia, the threat of American privateer attacks had subsided. In the spring of 1781, Major Samuel Bayard was ordered to take a detachment of Rangers overland from Halifax to Fort Hughes (Nova Scotia) to overawe local Planters who were planning to erect a Liberty Pole and thereby break with the King. There they fixed bayonets and "with bright weapons glittering, colours flying and drums beating, they marched up Church Street and back to Town Plot, where the barracks stood." This show of force brought the locals back in line. Bayard took an interest in the Annapolis Valley, and after the war he took up a grant of 4,730 acres at Wilmot Mountain.
  The reputation of the Regiment grew in these later years. A few months before disbandment, Brigadier-General Henry Edward Fox expressed:
  ... the great satisfaction he has received in seeing the two provincial battalions of Royal N.S. Volunteers and the King's Orange Rangers, and highly approves of their discipline and military appearance ...
  The King's Orange Rangers were disbanded in the autumn of 1783.
  After the war Bayard was granted land in Aylesford, which he sold off and purchased land in Wilmot.  Bayard became a Lieutenant Colonel of the Duke of Kent's regiment, the Royal Nova Scotia Regiment (1793 – 1802).   He is buried in the Bayard Family Cemetery in South Farmington, Wilmot, Nova Scotia, Canada.
caption: Fort Hughes, Starr's Point, Nova Scotia
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