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About Capt. William Bond, Esq.
Son of Thomas Bond and Elizabeth Woods. Brother of John Bond. Husband of Sarah (Biscoe) Bond — married February 7, 1650 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA. Husband of Elizabeth (Nevinson) Bond — married December 1695 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Father of William Bond, John Bond, John Bond, Thomas Bond, Elizabeth (Bond) Bull, Nathaniel Bond, Sarah Bond, Jonas Bond, Mary Bond and Margaret Bond.
https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=173662774 Children: William Bond, Sr.; John Bond; Thomas Bond; Elizabeth Barsham; Nathaniel Bond, Sr.; Sarah Wellington; Col. Jonas Bond and Mary Coolidge
Captain William Bond, Sr. William was given (adopted?) to his father's sister Elizabeth (Bond) Child who had no son. Elizabeth and her husband Ephraim Child came to America with William in the early 1630's. His American estate was bought from John Knowles and the family kept it for 170 years. He had many jobs during his lifetime. He was a Selectman, a Town Clerk, a Captain of a horse cavalry, a Justice of the Peace and Speaker of the General Court from 1691-1695.
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BOND ~• m. Atkinson, a Bucks County name
The following are St. James the Less Church of England marriages
- 72. 1558 Bond, James m. Mallarie or Mallory, Agnes 28-Aug
- 73. 1587 Bond, John m. Waller, Anne 18-May
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Biography
William Bond (September 8, 1625–December 14, 1695) was the first Speaker of the Massachusetts Province House of Representatives in 1692 following unification of Plymouth Colony and Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1691, a position he would be elected to several times after.
Bond was baptized September 8, 1625 in England, the son of Thomas Bond. He may have come to the American colonies in 1631 with his aunt, the wife of Deacon Thomas Child, or he may have come at a later date. (See Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins, Immigrants to New England, 1620–1633, 3 vols. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), 2098).
In 1649 he married Sarah Biscoe, daughter of tanner Nathanial Biscoe, and were the parents of seven children.
Bond became a leading citizen of Massachusetts Bay, serving as a selectman and town clerk of Watertown, captain of the militia, Justice of the Peace, and member of the Council of Safety. Following the unification of Massachusetts Bay and Plymouth in 1691 by the Second Royal Charter, William became the first speaker, holding the office in 1692-1693 and 1695. 1676 he was a Lieut. of a company of horse, perhaps under Capt. Thomas Prentice. In1692, those parts of Watertown which were later Watertown, Waltham and Weston, were designated as the precincts of Capt. Bond's co.,Capt. Garfield’s co. and Lieut. Jones' co.; Oct. 7 1679,he was appointed on a committee consisting of Capt. Thomas Prentice, Mr. William Bond and Deacon John Stone, to rebuild Lancaster, which had been destroyed by the Indians.(Watertown's Military History 1630-1907 page 111). Judge Samuel Sewall's Diary 1695, Dec. 15Captain Bond dies, (probably of Watertown.)Samuel Sewall visited Bond's home in 1693: "Call'd at Justice Bond's, who gave us special good Cider."
In 1677, Corporal Bond was permitted to dig clay near William Shattuck's house (north side of Concord Avenue). (Great Little Watertown).
"At a meeting of ye select men at ye house of Deacon Bright ye: 14; Decem: 1680 old Father Jenison requesting an old tree that is decaied yt stands a little way from ye said Jenisons; ye select men left ye matter to William Bond senior to act in it: so yt if ye said tree be ef no use to ye Towne ye said Jenison may have it."(Dawes and Allied Families).
On the afternoon of 8 June, in a ceremony that symbolized the new relationship between the royal governor and the assembly, leading members of the House of Representatives visited Phips to present to him their speaker, William Bond; Bond then requested that a list of accustomed privledges of an English assembly be recognized, to which the governor readily consented. (The New England Knight: Sir William Phips, 1651-1695 by Emerson W. Baker, John G. Reid ).
May 31 1693; Minutes of General Assembly of Massachusetts. The Assembly met pursuant to return of the writs. Sixty eight Representatives present. The Representatives chose William Bond for their Speaker. and proceeded to the election of twenty-eight Councillors. Mass. Archives, Vol. 81, pages 15,16. Boston, July 12, 1689. At the convention of the Councill and Representatives.
Captain Thomas Prentis, Commander of the troop of Horse in the lower Middx regiment, having presented a nomination made by the Company of, Commission Officers of said Troop Vizt. Mr.William Bond for their Lieutenant, John Hammond for Cornet and John Fowle for Quarter master of said Troop the said persons are accordingly allowed Confirmed in their respective offices.
References
- Harris, William Thaddeus. Epitaphs From The Old Burying Ground In Watertown. Boston, 1869, p. 5 Archive.Org
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bond_(Massachusetts)_
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Speakers_of_the_Massachusetts...
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Capt. William Bond, Esq.'s Timeline
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September 8, 1625
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Bury St. Edmonds, Suffolk, England
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September 8, 1625
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Bury Saint Edmunds, Suffolk, England (United Kingdom)
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| 1650 |
December 1, 1650
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Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
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| 1652 |
December 2, 1652
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Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts
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December 23, 1654
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Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
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| 1656 |
November 30, 1656
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Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts
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| 1659 |
January 19, 1659
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Watertown, Middlesex, MA
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| 1661 |
July 27, 1661
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Watertown, Middlesex Co., MA
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| 1664 |
July 13, 1664
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Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Colonial America
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