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Mary Bond.206. Doctor Thomas Bond
(70) was born on Aug 10 1743 in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. He died on Jul 17 1793 in Morgantown, West Virginia. Thomas Bond,
Junior, matriculated at the Academy of Philadelphia (the forerunner of the University
of Pennsylvania) in 1751 when it opened and began attending the college there
in 1757, graduating in 1760. he then studied medicine under his father.
But Bond also entered into trade at this time, operating a stocking company.
In 1765 he managed a stocking factory that had been built to relieve the American
dependence on British manufactured goods. "He carries on the stocking manufactory
in all its branches," he advertised in 1772, "and will be pleased to
encourage family industry and frugality, by working up their thread in the best
manner." But the business did not flourish and he went heavily into debt
to support it, to the amount of five or six thousand pounds according to John
Adams, who may or may not have known what he was talking about. His father left
a thousand pounds in his will when he died in 1784 to pay some of the debts.
Bond returned to the practice of medicine, but his heart seems not to have been
fully in it. He was apparently a pleasant man and was made a member of the Fishing
Company in 1763 and the Philosophical Society in 1764. In 1775, after his first
wife's early death, John Adams, in the city for the Continental Congress, wrote
his wife that Bond was "fat and jolly, a Lover of Pleasure." He also
told his wife that Bond loved both wine and women and kept a mistress. "Epicurism
and Debauchery, " sniffed Adams, "are more common in this Place than
in Boston."
Bond joined the Pennsylvania militia as a surgeon in 1776 and was on the retreat
from New Jersey in the dark days of the fall of that year. He worked hard to
care for the sick, although he often lacked even basic medical supplies. he urged
that hospitals be established near rivers, so that the wounded might be brought
to them by water rather than the terrible roads. he was appointed an assistant
director of the General Hospital (the Continental Army's medical corps) in 1777
and was named purveyor-general in 1780.
After the Revolution, Bond practiced medicine with his father, and after the
latter's death, with Goodwin Wilson, who had been a pupil of his father. Again
widowed, he married a third time in 1786. Dr. Shippen, another distinguished
Philadelphia physician, thought this might steady him, as, according to Shippen,
he was going to destruction very fast" at this time.
At this time Bond acquired the rights to vast lands in western Virginia, perhaps
as much as 80,000 acres, and it was while he was touring these lands that he
took ill and died. Buried in Morgantown, in what is now West Virginia, he was
moved to Christ Church cemetery in 1901, not far from the grave of his father.
He was married to Anne Morgan on May 10 1764 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
207. Anne Morgan
(71) was born about 1745 in probably Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. She died on Apr 6 1774 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Children
were:
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