Person:James Bond (17)

JAMES BOND, SON OF JOHN BOND SR. WAS BORN IN 1785 IN SOUTH CAROLINA. INCHILDHOOD HE MOVED WITH HIS PARENTS TO HANCOCK CO.AND GREW UP THERE AND IN BALDWIN CO. HIS WIFE SARA BOND, MADEN SURNAME UNKNOWN, WAS BORN ABT 1788 IN NORTH CAROLINA. SHE WAS KNOWN AS SALLY. THEIR MARRAGE RECORD CANNOT BE FOUND. THEY WERE MARRIED ABT. 1805, PROBABELY IN BALDWIN CO. GA.

 BOTH DIED IN THE EARLY 1850s NEAR KILMICHAEL, MISS. THEY REARED A FAMILY OF ONE SON AND EIGHT DAUGHTERS. THE FIRST THREE WERE BORN IN GA.

   IN 1810 JAMES & SARAH JOINED THE MIGRATION OF THE BOND FAMILY TO MISSISSIPPI, WHERE THE OLDEST TAX ROLL OF MARION CO. FOR 1812 LISTS HIM AS A TAXPAYER. IN JUNE 1812 HE WAS APPOINTED ONE OF THE EARLEST JUSTICES OF THE PEACE OF MARION CO. HE OFFICATED AT THE MARRAGE OF HIS NIECE, ELENDER (ELEANOR) BOND, DAUGHTER OF GIDION AND MARY BOND; WHO MARRIED JOHN AKIN ON MAY 7 1813.

  HE FOUGHT IN THE WAR OF 1812.  ON OCT 11, 1813 JAMES BOND WAS COMMISSIONED ENSIGN IN CAPT. JOHN BOND'S COMPANY, THE 13th REGIMENT MISSISSIPPI MOUNTED RIFLEMAN, UNDER COL. NIXON, AND SOON AFTERWARD MARCHED TO FORT STODDERT. ORIGINAL RECORDS ARE AT THE MARION CO. COURT HOUSE, AND ALSO THE REGESTER OF APPOINTMENTS OF COUNTY OFFICERS 1812 - 1817, AT THE MISSISSIPPI DEPT.

OF ARCHIVES AND HISTORY AT JACKSON, MISS.

        NOTE: ABOVE INFO WAS TAKEN FROM THE "BOND FAMILY AND SOUTHERN KIN".
              MORE INFORMATION CAN BE OBTAINED FROM IT........H.W.B.