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WEALTH DURING LIFETIME. PERSONAL PROP-
ERTY: assessed value £202.0.0, including 3 slaves,
1783. LAND AT FIRST ELECTION: at least 200
acres in Cecil County. SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN
LAND BETWEEN FIRST ELECTION AND DEATH
ca. 530 acres inherited in 1781 and 1783; 127 acres
of vacant land added to a patent resurvey, 1783;
376 acres purchased, 1790-1793; 963 acres sold,
1792-1799 (over 600 acres of this was disposed of
in 1799). WEALTH AT DEATH. DIED: January 14,
1819, in Virginia (later became part of West Vir-
ginia); size of estate unknown.
BOND, THOMAS (?-ca. 1797). BORN: in St.
Mary's County, of age by 1760. NATIVE: at least
third generation. RESIDED: in Upper Resurrection
Hundred, St. Mary's County. FAMILY BACK-
GROUND. FATHER: Capt. John Bond (?-1760), son
of Zachariah Bond (?-ca. 1716). MOTHER:
Elizabeth, daughter of John Attaway (?-1732), of
St. Mary's County. UNCLE: Zachariah Bond(?-ca.
1776). BROTHERS Gerard (?-1789), died without
progeny; Samuel; John; Richard; and William.
SISTERS: Susannah, who married (first name un-
known) Bates; Elizabeth, who married (first name
unknown) Jordan; Margaret, who married (first
name unknown) Sothoron. FIRST COUSIN: (first
name unknown) Bond, who married Henry Green-
field Sothoron (ca. 1732-1793). MARRIED by 1757
Cecelia (?-ca. 1797), widow of Dr. John Key (?-
1755), son of Philip Key (1696 /97-1764); daughter
of Dr. Gustavus Brown (?-1762); stepdaughter of
Margaret; niece of Anne Brown Claggett Horner,
who married third, Samuel Hanson (1716-1794).
Her brother was Richard. Her sisters were Sarah,
who married (first name unknown) Scott; Mary,
who married (first name unknown) Throkeld;
Elizabeth, who married (first name unknown)
Wallace; Jane, who married (first name unknown)
Campbell; and Anne, who married (first name un-
known) Claggett. CHILDREN. SONS: Peregrine;
Thomas; and John. STEPSON Philip Key (1750-
1820). DAUGHTERS: Cecelia, who married (first
name unknown) Gardiner; Elizabeth, who married
(first name unknown) Briscoe. STEPDAUGHTER:
Susannah Gardiner Key. PRIVATE CAREER. EDU-
CATION literate. RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION. Angli-
can, All Faiths Parish, St. Mary's County. SOCIAL
STATUS AND ACTIVITIES: Mr., by 1767; Esq., by
death. OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE: planter; owned a
mill in St. Clement's Hundred, St. Mary's County.
PUBLIC CAREER. LEGISLATIVE SERVICE: Lower
House, St. Mary's County, 1773-1774 (Bills of
Credit 1, Cv, 2, 3), 1782-1783 (Claims 1, 2), 1785,
1790, 1791-1792. LOCAL OFFICES justice, St.
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Mary's County, in office 1764-1773, 1778-at least
1792; justice, Court of Oyer and Terminer and
Gaol Delivery, St. Mary's County, commissioned
1768 and 1772; justice, Orphans' Court, St.
Mary's County, 1778-at least 1786; commissioner
of tax, St. Mary's County, 1779-at least 1785.
MILITARY SERVICE: called major, period of service
unknown. WEALTH DURING LIFETIME. PERSONAL
PROPERTY: 12 slaves, 1790; assessed value £97.0.0,
including 2 slaves and plate, 1793. He petitioned
as an insolvent debtor in 1794. LAND AT FIRST
ELECTION. 765 acres in St. Mary's County (438
acres inherited from his father, 1760; 7 acres by
patent, 1758). SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN LAND
BETWEEN FIRST ELECTION AND DEATH: Owned
494 acres in 1793, but listed only 340 acres in in-
solvency petition in 1794, all in St. Mary's
County. WEALTH AT DEATH. DIED, inventory
dated December 12, 1797, St. Mary's County.
PERSONAL PROPERTY: TEV, £312.17.1 current
money; FB, £283.17.10. LAND: at least 140 acres
in St. Mary's County.
BOND, THOMAS, OF THOMAS (?-1800).
BORN: in Baltimore County, of age by 1770; eldest
son. NATIVE: fifth generation. RESIDED: at "Isle of
Caprea," Baltimore County (later became part of
Harford County). FAMILY BACKGROUND. FATHER.
Thomas Bond (1703-1788), of Harford County; a
farmer; son of Thomas Bond (?-1755) and wife
Ann Robisson (Robertson). MOTHER: Elizabeth
(1705-?), daughter of Daniel Scott (?-1744/45).
UNCLE. Jacob Bond (ca. 1725-1780). BROTHER:
Daniel (?-by 1787). SISTERS: Ann, who married
William Clemments, of Charles County; Elizabeth
(?-by 1787), who married (first name unknown)
Howard; Hannah, who married first, Zacheus On-
ion, and second, William Maccomas; Martha
(1747-?), who married (first name unknown)
Smith; and Sarah (?-by 1787), who married (first
name unknown) Howard. FIRST COUSINS: William
Bond, of Joshua (ca. 1747-1788); James Bond (ca.
1757-1803); and Ann, who married second, James
Giles (1749/50-?); Aguila Scott (1756-?); James
McComas (17 35-1791); Elizabeth Scott, who mar-
ried William Smithson (ca. 1744-1809). MARRIED
by 1771 his first cousin Catherine (by 1746-by
1795), daughter of William Fell (?-1746) and wife
Sarah; granddaughter of Thomas Bond (?-1755).
Her brother was Edward (1736-1763), who mar-
ried Ann Bond. Her sisters were Janet, who mar-
ried (first name unknown) Few; Ann, who married
(first name unknown) Day; and Margaret. Her
nephew was William Fell (1759- 1786). CHILDREN.
SONS Fell; Edward; and Thomas. DAUGHTERS:
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