Samuel Bayard

Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Vetch Bayard (born 1757, New York – d. 28 May 1832 Wilmot, Nova Scotia) was a Loyalist military officer in the American Revolution who served in the King's Orange Rangers (KOR).

This sentence was overturned on a technicality by the Judge Advocate General,[6] but probably played a role in Bayard's subsequent difficulties in retaining his command.

The company consisted of Howard, 2 lieutenants, 1 ensign, 3 sergeants, 2 or 3 corporals, 48 privates, and several camp followers, both women and children.

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.

[13][14][15] 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."

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.