{"id":11,"date":"2016-09-10T16:57:50","date_gmt":"2016-09-10T20:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/mvdh\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2017-06-16T15:42:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T19:42:04","slug":"dr-richard-bayley","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/mvdh\/people\/dr-richard-bayley\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Richard Bayley Timeline – “A life of great usefulness”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From The New York Public Library, The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs<\/p><\/div>\n

Here are some brief highlights of Dr. Richard Bayley’s life:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1745 \u2013 Richard Bayley is Born in Fairfield CT<\/p>\n

1765 \u2013 1769 –\u00a0 studied medicine under Dr. John Charlton<\/i>, son of Reverend Richard Charlton<\/i>, rector of St. Andrew\u2019s Episcopal church, Staten Island<\/p>\n

1769, January 9 – married Catherine Charlton <\/i>(Sister of Dr. John Charlton) in St. John’s Episcopal Church, Elizabethtown, New Jersey.- \u00a0 “Dr. Richard Bayley to Catherine Charlton, both of Staten Island. “<\/a><\/p>\n

1772 \u2013 Bayley \u00a0began a medical practice in NYC with his \u00a0brother-in-law Dr. John Charlton<\/p>\n

1769-72;\u00a0 1775\u00a0 – Bayley takes several trips to England to study\u00a0 anatomy with the famous anatomist\u00a0 and surgeon,\u00a0 Dr. William Hunter<\/i>.<\/p>\n

1774, August 28 – Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton born in or near New York City (birth records are lost).<\/p>\n

1776, July 12 \u2013 Bayley returns to America from England in Admiral\u00a0 Lord Richard Howe\u2019s fleet as British surgeon, disembarking at the Watering Place<\/i>. <\/i><\/b>Richard Howe’s fleet joined the fleet of\u00a0 General William Howe, the Admiral’s brother and Commander of the British armed forces, to form the largest naval armada ever gathered prior to the allied forces\u00a0on the D-Day invasion at Normandy.\u00a0 In late August of 1776 the British forces landed at Gravesend Bay to begin the first major battle of the American Revolution – the Battle of Brooklyn (also known as the Battle of Long Island).\u00a0
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1776 -Bayley is stationed in Newport, Rhode Island as hospital surgeon and therefore probably did not participate in the Battle of Brooklyn. At Rhode Island\u00a0 he treats American patriot prisoners of war. <\/b><\/p>\n

1777 – Catherine Charlton Bayley dies. Bayley resigns from his military post and returns to his medical practice focusing on the poor of the city.<\/p>\n

1778, June 16- Bayley marries Charlotte Amelia Barclay, daughter of Helena Roosevelt and Andrew Barclay.<\/p>\n

1783, November 25,\u00a0 Evacuation Day –\u00a0<\/em> the British troops depart\u00a0 New York City and the Watering Place marking the end of the Revolutionary War.\u00a0 Many American loyalists leave too, but Bayley decides to stay in America.\u00a0 Although he was accused of “experimenting”\u00a0 with\u00a0 Patriot prisoners of war while serving the British crown in Rhode Island, several prominent patriots and friends from the New York society elite come to his defense. His prestige as a physician and surgeon\u00a0 helps his case too.\u00a0 He stays.<\/p>\n

1788, April 13 & 14 \u2013 A mob of New Yorkers fearing that medical students studying under Dr. Richard Bayley were robbing graves\u00a0 for\u00a0 dissection material attacked Bayley\u2019s\u00a0 laboratory\u00a0 at New York Hospital and destroyed all of his valuable anatomy specimens.\u00a0 This event, perhaps the first public riot of the newly formed United States, is known as the Doctor’s Riot .<\/p>\n

1790\u2013 Bayley\u00a0 is senior physician of the newly formed New York Dispensary<\/em> for the care of the poor.<\/p>\n

1792 – Bayley is appointed Chair of Anatomy at Columbia College (and Chair of Surgery the following year).<\/p>\n

1796, February –\u00a0 Dr. Richard Bayley appointed the first\u00a0 Health Officer o<\/em>f the State of New York<\/p>\n

1798 – Bayley publishes “An Account of the Epidemic Fever which prevailed in the City of New York during Part of the Summer and Fall of\u00a0 1795”.\u00a0 In this book he makes the distinction between contagious and infectious disease and argues correctly that Yellow fever is not contagious, but infectious. Although he was incorrect on his conclusion that Yellow Fever was solely of local origin rather than imported from by the incoming ships (\u201cmurderers of our own creating\u201d), several important sanitation efforts were implemented in the city as a result of Bayley’s views.<\/p>\n

1799 – Bayley, author of the Quarantine Act, opens the Quarantine Grounds and Marine hospital\u00a0 at the Watering Place. Bayley spends much\u00a0 of his time caring for the immigrants and sailors arriving at New York Bay. Many of the ship passengers are sick with infectious diseases.<\/p>\n

1801, August 17 – Dr. Richard Bayley dies in his home on the Quarantine Grounds from an infectious disease that he likely contracted while caring for the immigrants. He is buried in the St. Andrews churchyard on Staten Island.<\/p>\n

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St. Andrew’s Church, Richmondtown, Staten Island, NY. Burial place of Dr. Richard Bayley and other members of his family. His daughter, Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, is buried in Emmitsburg, MD. The inscription that was once visible on Dr. Bayley’s tombstone read: “In memory of Doctor Richard Bayley of New York. Who, after practicing the various branches of his Profession, with unwearied diligence and high reputation for 30 years in that City, projected the plan, and for 5 years conducted the operations of a Lazaretto on this island. Intelligent in devising and indefatigable in pursuing plans subservient to the cause of humanity, he continued to guard the public health with persevering industry, and in the midst of danger, to perform with invincible fortitude, the hazardous duties of Health Officer, until in discharge of this important trust, he was seized with a malignant fever to which he fell a lamented victim, and thus terminated a life of great usefulness, on the 17th day of August 1801, aged 56 years. ” The tombstone inscription is from W.T. Davis (1925) The Church of St. Andrew\u2019s Richmond, Staten Island: Its History<\/em>, Vital Records and Gravestone Inscriptions<\/em>, page 197. The\u00a0 left image of the collage was taken June 2016 by Michael Vigorito and the two other images are older from Findagrave.com.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Here are some brief highlights of Dr. Richard Bayley’s life: 1745 \u2013 Richard Bayley is Born in Fairfield CT 1765 \u2013 1769 –\u00a0 studied medicine under Dr. John Charlton, son of Reverend Richard Charlton, rector of St. Andrew\u2019s Episcopal church, Staten Island 1769, January 9 – married Catherine Charlton (Sister of Dr. John Charlton) in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":922,"featured_media":0,"parent":2,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/mvdh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/mvdh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/mvdh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/mvdh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/922"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/mvdh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/mvdh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":734,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/mvdh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/734"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/mvdh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/mvdh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}