"Jesse Bond was born in Grayson county, Va., and was married to Phebe Commons, a daughter of Robert Commons, in North Carolina. In 1807 he emigrated from Virginia to Indiana Territory, and settled on the farm on which the Earlham College buildings stand. In 1813 he removed to a farm near the present town of Washington, where he continued to reside until his decease, April 11, 1862.
He was a member of the Society of Friends and a minister from his youth. He was one of the earliest ministers of the Whitewater meeting. The existence of American slavery he deplored most deeply; and had his life been protracted another short year, he would have had the satisfaction of witnessing its overthrow. He is represented as having been exemplary in his deportment, and singularly faithful in the discharge of domestic, social, and religious duties.
He had eleven children. ..."
