... Thomas had already settled in Harford county, and in 1700 married Ann Robertson, of Anne Arundel. He patented, in 1703, Knaves Misfortune, adjacent to the tracts above mentioned, where he built a substantial house in which he lived until his death. This house was on the site of the residence of Mr. John R. Spencer, near Emmorton. The old Bond house is said to have been built of brick imported from England, and part of it was standing up to the time of the erection of the present dwelling by Mr. Lee Magness, about twenty years ago. Thomas Bond died in 1756. This old house is said to have been used as a smallpox hospital about the time of the Revolution. Thomas Bond lies buried near the hosue and the location of his grave is still known.
In 1714 he patented Bond's Forest, of three thousand one hundred acres, lying between Bynum's run and the Little Gunpowder Falls, and purchased Chapside and Poplar Ridge, with other tracts, amounting to about three thousand acres. In 1705 he received five thousand acres, lying in Baltimore county, on the west side of the Susquehanna river, called Bond's Manor. In 1739 he sold a portion of this land to Capt. Thomas Cresap, who thus became involved n the boundary dispute, from which William Penn emerged crowned with success.
Thomas Bond, in 1749, conveyed to his sons Thomas and John, as trustees, part of Bond's Forest, to be laid out conveniently near the main road, including "a house now built intended for a meeting house for the people called Quakers to worship God in, and also a school-house already built."
The records of Gunpowder Meeting show acceptance of this deed in 1753. This was the beginning of the Little Falls Meeting at Fallston.
He was a member of the celebrated grand jury which protested against the removal of the county seat from the Forks of Gunpowder to Joppa, denouncing it as "a palpable, notorious grievance to this county."
Thomas died in 1755, having previously settled each of his sons in comfortable houses on "plantations," and divided his lands among his eight children. ...
