Maj. Richard Clayton Bond, Jr.

Richard Clayton Bond Jr. served as a Major in the Maryland Militia during the Revolutionary War. He moved from Cecil County, Maryland, to West Virginia and was a farmer and mill owner on Lost Creek, Harrison County. He was called Major Bond and was a justice of the peace, a man of wealth and influence. Physically, he was a very large man and also mentally and spiritually strong.

"Major Richard Bond was three times married : first, to Tamar Davis ; second, to Mary Brumfield, the mother of his children ; and third, to Mary Lewis. He was the older brother of Deacon Abel Bond, of the Lost Creek Church, whose home was at Quiet Dell, where the early missionaries to western Virginia were always first entertained on their arrival upon that field." from A History of the Seventh Day Baptists in West Virginia: Including the ...By Corliss Fitz Randolph

sources:

• The Sharples-Sharpless Family, Publication: Vols. I & III, by Bart Anderson, published at West Chester, Pennsylvania, 1966 & 1971
• THE RICHARD BOND FAMILY IN AMERICA, by Rev. Thomas A. Bond, Abbey of the Genesee, 1981, p. 20
• The Bond Family, Descendants of Richard Bond, Including Allied Families, Publication: by Betty L. Bond Pennington, Las Animas, CO, 1997