Person:Gideon Bond (1)

GIDION BOND, SON OF JOHN BOND SR. WAS BORN BEFORE 1775 IN NORTH CAROLINA.LESS IS KNOWN ABOUT HIM THAN ANY OF HIS BROTHERS AND SISTERS WHO MIGRATED TO MISSISSIPPI.

THE FOLLOWING IS A BRIEF STATEMENT OF HIS LIFE. DURING THE 1790s HE WAS MARRIED TO A WIFE NAMED MARY, SURNAME UNKNOWN, AND THEY WERE PARENTS OF A LARGE FAMILY CONSISTING MOSTLY OF GIRLS. IT IS NOT KNOWN WHEN AND WHERE THEY DIED, BUT WE PRESUME IT WAS IN PIKE CO. MISS.

OUR FIRST RECORD OF GIDION BOND IS IN HANCOCK COUNTY, GA. WHERE HIS NAME FIRST APPEARS IN 1795 ON THE TAX ROLLS, BEING TAXED FOR 204 ACRES OF LAND AND ONE SLAVE. HANCOCK CO. DEED RECORDS DO NOT SHOW THE Acquisition OF HIS LAND, BUT HE OWNED PROPERTY ON TOWN CREEK, EVIDENCED BY A DEED DATED 2 FEB 1801, RECORDED IN BOOK E, PAGE 126, WHEREIN HE SOLD 64 ACRES LOCATED ON TOWN CREEK TO JOSEPH WALLER.

GIDEON BOND HAD TWO DRAWS IN THE GEORGIA LAND LOTTERY OF 1803, AND HE DREW LOT 311 4TH District OF BALDWIN CO. NOT KNOWN OF THE DISPOSITION OF THIS LAND.

THE NEXT RECORDS OF GIDION ARE IN MISSISSIPPI, WHERE HE ARRIVED ABT 1813 AS A RESIDENT OF MARION CO. ALONG WITH OTHER MEMBERS OF THE BOND FAMIL (WHICH BECAME PIKE COUNTY AFTER 1815. )

MUSTER ROLLS OF CAPT. JOHN BOND'S COMPANY, 13th REG., MISSISSIPPI RIFELS LISTS GIDEON AS A CORPORAL IN HIS BROTHERS COMPANY.

ONE OF GIDIONS DAUGHTERS, ELENDER (ELEANOR) BOND, THE ONLY ONE SO FAR IDENTIFIED, WAS MARRIED WHILE HE WAS A RESIDENT OF MARION CO. THE LETTER OF CONSENT OF HER PARENTS, GIDEON AND MARY BOND, TO JOHN AKIN IS DATED MAY 7 1813 AND IS RECORDED IN MARRIAGE BOOK 1 PG. 13. THE MARRAGE WAS PREFORMED ON MAY 9 1813 BY JAMES BOND, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, WHO WAS GIDIONS BROTHER. THE JOHN BOND WHO SIGNED THE GROOMS MARRAGE BOND MAY HAVE BEEN HER UNCLE OR HER GRANDFATHER OR AN UNIDENTIFIED SON OF GIDEON AND MARY.