John Bond Jr.

Lt. Col. John Bond Jr.

John Bond Jr. (1770–1862)
Historical Marker
Lt. Col. John Bond Jr. Monument

Lt. Colonel John Bond Jr. (1770 − October 22, 1862) was an American military officer, Mississippi pioneer, and Mississippi Legislator.

Family

John Bond Jr. was born in 1770 to John Bond Sr. and Eleanor Peyton Bond in Beaufort, North Carolina.[1] In August 1793, Bond married his first wife, Adelphia Batson, in Burke County, Georgia.[1] By 1810, Bond had migrated to the Mississippi Territory in the vicinity of Marion and Covington counties.[2] Bond was the father of eight children by three wives: Adelphia Batson (m. 1793—d. 1819), Elizabeth Wails (also Wayles) (m. 1821—d. 1834), and Sarah Largent (m. 1840—1862).[1] Adelphia died from childbirth in 1819,[3] and Elizabeth died from unknown causes in 1834.

Military service

In 1801, Bond was commissioned a lieutenant in the Georgia Militia.[3] Around 1813, after settling in the Mississippi Territory, Bond was commissioned captain in the 13th Regiment of the Mississippi Militia under the command of Colonel George H. Nixon.[4]

In retaliation for the massacre of 500 settlers at Fort Mims, Alabama, Governor David Holmes mobilized the Mississippi Territorial Militia to assault the Creek Indians. Among the Mississippi military units responding was the 13th Regiment, including Captain John Bond’s Company.[5] The Creek Indian military action was under the command of General Andrew Jackson. By 1815, Bond had been commissioned lieutenant colonel in the Mississippi Militia, but resigned his military commission in 1817 because of “bodily infirmities”.[3]

Mississippi Legislator

While still in military service (1815–17), John Bond represented Marion and Lawrence Counties in the Mississippi Territorial Legislature.[6] In 1838 and 1839, Bond represented Hancock County as a member of the Mississippi Legislature.[3] The geographic area where Bond served as Representative was to become part of Stone County in 1916.[7]

In 1851, at age 81, Lt. Colonel Bond received a bounty land warrant for his services in the War of 1812, and built a home on the property along Riceville Road, near what was to become McHenry, Mississippi.[8]

Bond died in 1862 and was buried in Bond Cemetery, Harrison County, Mississippi. In the 1950s, a monument was erected by Bond’s descendants at his gravesite.[9]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Bonds of North Carolina Retrieved 2013-03-11
  2. ↑ Descendants of John Bond Retrieved 2013-03-11
  3. 1 2 3 4 1850s Mississippi Farmers of Harrison County (Bond-Batson) Retrieved 2013-03-11
  4. ↑ Soldiers of the Mississippi Territory: War of 1812 Retrieved 2013-03-11
  5. ↑ Sullivan, Charles L. and Powell, Murella H. 1999. The Mississippi Gulf Coast, a portrait of a people. American Historical Press, Sun Valley, California. Page 37.
  6. ↑ Members of the House of Representatives of the Mississippi Territory Retrieved 2013-03-11
  7. ↑ Maps of Mississippi, 1838 Retrieved 2013-03-11
  8. ↑ Eastes, LeRoy F. 2011. A History of Towns & Communities in Harrison & Stone Counties, Mississippi. Chapter 35. Published by LeRoy F. Eastes.
  9. ↑ Bond Family Reunion Retrieved 2013-03-11
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