Margaret Johnston Bard poses for a formal portrait, wearing a long velvet dress. Though few of her personal papers remain, Margaret Bard was known for her intelligence and religious devotion. Her family fortune brought wealth to John Bard through…
engraving in J. G. Stedman’s Narrative of Five Years Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam in Guiana on the Wild coast of South America in the Years 1772 to 1777