Lt. Colonel John Bond Jr. (1770 − October 22, 1862) was an

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, and Mississippi Legislator.

Family

John Bond Jr. was born in 1770 to John Bond Sr. and Eleanor Peyton Bond in

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. In August 1793, Bond married his first wife, Adelphia Batson, in

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. By 1810, Bond had migrated to the

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in the vicinity of

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and Covington counties. Bond was the father of eight children by three wives: Adelphia Batson (m. 1793—d. 1819), Elizabeth Wails (also Wayles) (m. 1821—d. 1834), and Sarah Largent (m. 1840—1862). Adelphia died from childbirth in 1819, and Elizabeth died from unknown causes in 1834.

Military service

In 1801, Bond was commissioned a lieutenant in the

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. Around 1813, after settling in the Mississippi Territory, Bond was commissioned captain in the 13th Regiment of the Mississippi Militia under the command of Colonel George H. Nixon. In retaliation for the massacre of 500 settlers at Fort Mims, Alabama, Governor David Holmes mobilized the Mississippi Territorial Militia to assault the

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. By 1815, Bond had been commissioned lieutenant colonel in the Mississippi Militia, but resigned his military commission in 1817 because of "bodily infirmities".

Mississippi Legislator

While still in military service (1815–17), John Bond represented Marion and

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Counties in the Mississippi Territorial Legislature. In 1838 and 1839, Bond represented Hancock County as a member of the Mississippi Legislature. The geographic area where Bond served as Representative was to become part of Stone County in 1916. In 1851, at age 81, Lt. Colonel Bond received a bounty-land warrant for his services in the War of 1812, and built a home on the property along Riceville Road, near what was to become

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.Eastes, LeRoy F. 2011. A History of Towns & Communities in Harrison & Stone Counties, Mississippi. Chapter 35. Published by LeRoy F. Eastes. Bond died in 1862 and was buried in Bond Cemetery,

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. In the 1950s, a monument was erected by Bond's descendants at his gravesite.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bond, John 1770 births 1862 deaths People from Stone County, Mississippi Members of the Mississippi Territorial Legislature Members of the Mississippi House of Representatives American militiamen in the War of 1812 People from Beaufort, North Carolina American militia officers