Theophylact Bache
Portrait of Bache byCharles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin
Born	(1734-01-17)17 January 1734 Settle, North Yorkshire
Died	30 October 1807(1807-10-30) (aged 73) New York City,New York
Occupation	Merchant
Spouse	Ann Dorothea Barclay
Relatives	Richard Bache (brother) Bache McEvers (grandson)
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Theophylact Bache (January 17, 1735 – October 30, 1807) was an American merchant and fifth president of theNew York Chamber of Commerce.

Theophylact Bache was born on January 17, 1735 inSettle, in theWest Riding of Yorkshire, England. He was the son of William Bache, a tax collector, and Mary (née Blechynden) Bache, who were married around 1720. His younger brother,Richard Bache, was the secondPostmaster General of the United States and the son-in-law ofBenjamin Franklin.^[1]

He landed in New York 17 September 1751, took charge of the business ofPaul Richard a successful merchant and former mayor, whose wife was a Bache relative.^[2] Richard died in 1756, and Bache became the owner of merchant vessels, and engaged inprivateering.^[3] He was identified with American resistance to England in 1765, and in 1770 was one of the committee to carry out the resolutions of non-intercourse.^[3]

In 1774, he was one of the committee of correspondence appointed when the port ofBoston was closed. He supported the firstContinental Congress; but when theAmerican Revolutionary War actually began he remained so far neutral as to incur the suspicions of thecommittee of safety. He remained in New York during the British occupation of the city, and befriended American officers held there as prisoners of war. In 1777 he was chosen the fifth president of theNew York Chamber of Commerce.^[1]

Bache was married to Ann Dorothea Barclay (1741–1795), one of eleven children of merchantAndrew Barclay and Helen (néeRoosevelt) Barclay.^[4] Among her siblings was Catherine Barclay (wife ofAugustus Van Cortlandt),^[5] and Sarah Ann Barclay (wife of AnthonyLispenard).^[4] Together, they were the parents of:^[6]

• Elizabeth Garland Bache (1762–1795), who married James Noel Bleecker, the eldest son ofAnthony Lispenard Bleecker.^[5]
• Mary Bache (b. 1766), who married Charles McEvers, Jr.^[7]
• Paul Richard Bache (1767–1801), who married his cousin, Helen Roosevelt Lispenard, a daughter of Anthony Lispenard.^[5]
• Andrew Barclay Bache (1770–1847), who married Charlotte Phillips.^[5]
• Anna Dorothea Bache (1771–1814), who married her cousin, Col.Leonard Lispenard, a son of Anthony Lispenard, in 1790.^[5]
• William Bache (1773–1813), who married Christina Cooper.^[7]
• Sarah Elizabeth Bache (1774–1852), who married James Noel Bleecker, after the death of her elder sister, in 1795.^[5]
• Catharine Thomas Bache (1776–1854), who married William Satterthwaite.^[7]
• Helena Bache (1780–1802), who died unmarried.^[7]

Bache died on 30 October 1807.^[1]

Through his daughter Mary, he was a grandfather of Sarah Barclay McEvers (the wife of Robert MontgomeryLivingston, a grandson of JudgeRobert Livingston) andBache McEvers (1798–1851), was an American commission merchant, shipper, and insurer.^[8]

• 1735 births
• 1807 deaths
• People from Settle, North Yorkshire
• 18th-century American merchants
• British emigrants to the Thirteen Colonies
• Merchants from colonial New York

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