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John Bubenheim Bayard (1738-1807) was the Mayor of New Brunswick, New Jersey.

He was born in Bohemia Manor, Maryland on August 11, 1738. He was the great-grandnephew of Peter Stuyvesant, the Dutch colonial governor of New Amsterdam. He was the father-in-law of Andrew Kirkpatrick, and the double uncle and adoptive father of James Asheton Bayard, Sr.; and the grandfather of Littleton Kirkpatrick; great-great-great-great-grandfather of Millicent Hammond Fenwick. He was a member of Pennsylvania state legislature in 1776 and a delegate to the Continental Congress from Pennsylvania in 1785. He was the mayor of New Brunswick, New Jersey in 1790. He was the state court judge in New Jersey. He died in New Brunswick, New Jersey on January 7, 1807. He was buried in the First Presbyterian Churchyard, New Brunswick.