Person:John Bond (37)

HE MARRIED THREE TIMES AND HAD 19 CHILDREN, MANY DIED YOUNG, BUT SIXREARED FAMILIES.

THE LIFE OF COL. JOHN BOND JR. DESERVES FAR MORE SPACE THAN CAN BE DEVOTED HERE.

YOU ARE DIRECTED TO THE "HISTORY OF THE BATSON FAMILY" BY MRS. VIVIAN DAVIS BORNNEMAN, WHICH DEVOTES MUCH SPACE TO HIM AND HIS DESCENDANTS.

HE MIGRATED FROM JONES CO. GA. TO WHAT IS PRESENTLY KNOWN AS PIKE CO. MISS. ON OR BEFORE 1810. BY THIS TIME HE WAS A MAN OF 40 WITH A WIFE AND CHILDREN.

 FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL YEARS HE LIVED WITH HIS FATHER ON THE BOGUE CHITTO RIVER NEAR HOLMESVILLE, MISS.,  DURING THE TIME OF THE WAR OF 1812.

  ON  11 OCT 1813 HE WAS COMMISSIONED CAPTAIN OF A COMPANY IN THE 13th REGIMENT OF THE MISSISSIPPI MILITIA UNDER COL. NIXON; AND ON THE 26 OF THAT MONTH , GOV. HOLMES ORDERED " CAPT.JOHN BONDS' COMPANY" TO PROCEED IMMEDIATELY TO FORT STODDERT. REF. MAY BE FOUND IN THE TERRITORIAL PAPERS OF MISSISSIPPI, AND PUBLICATIONS OF THE MISSISSIPPI HISTORICAL SOCIETY, VOL. 4 ; MILITARY RECORDS OF THE WAR OF 1812, NAT. ARCHIVES, WA.D.C. SHOW THAT HE SERVED UNTILL APRIL 1814, AND LATER SERVED ANOTHER TOUR FROM JAN 3 1815 TO APR 2 1815.
1815 -1817  LT.CO. IN STATE MILITIA,
ALSO REP. HANCOCK CO. IN STATE LEGISLATURE

ABT 1819 MOVED TO COUVINGTON CO. MISS. HIS FIRST WIFE (ADELPHIA BATSON) DIED THERE AND HE REMARRIED(ELIZABETH WAYLES) . IN THE 1830s HE MOVED TO HANCOCK COUNTY AND SETTLED IN AN AREA THAT BECAME HARRISON CO. AND IS NOW STONE CO.

A HIGHWAY MARKER ON HIGHWAY 49 NEAR McHENRY WAS PLACED IN HIS HONOR NOT FAR FROM WHERE HE IS BURRIED.