 1736), whose daughter, Mary, was married to Houstoun in 1788.The couple met while Houstoun, a member of an ancient and aristocratic Scottish family, was serving in the Congress.Bayard cut the street through a tract he owned in the vicinity of Canal Street in which he lived, and the city later extended it to include North Street, the northern border of New York's east side at the beginning of the 19th century.