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Joseph Bond family

 

At the start, I had very few references to my particular Bond family in Philadelphia during the mid 1700s. My father's hand-lettered chart shows only Joseph Bond marrying Esther Jeanes on 27 Oct 1750. A record of that marriage and that of one of their daughters are in "Record of Pennsylvania Marriages Prior to 1810, Volume 1, Marriage Record of the German Reformed Church, at Philadelphia, 1748 - 1802":

1750, Oct. 27: Bond, Joseph and Esther Jenes

1786, May 16: Bond, Mary and Lewis Hansal

During a research trip to Philadelphia my husband and I visited the Swarthmore Friends Library on the college campus. There I found a paper in a Jeanes family file listing the children of Joseph Bond and Esther Jeanes. It was noted as having been prepared by Augusta Isham Thomas Hicks of Piqua OH on 18 Feb 1899. Now I had nine children, some with spouses and dates. I posted what I had and hoped someone would see it and be able to verify and add to my limited information.

 

Details about two of the children of Joseph Bond and Esther Jeanes, Joseph and Esther, were soon sent to me by Jay Willis of Berks Co PA. The same nine children and spouses were supported by Jay's information. Jay and I also connected through the Butler and Moore families of Chester Co and we found more shared family as we corresponded. His information is in family records from his great-aunt, Mary Emeline Willis (1880-1964), a descendant of Samuel Moore and Alice Butler. Copies of many of his family papers contained additional clues and dates and were fascinating reading as well. This was the first new family I'd found in this line and it was exciting to have connected with Jay.

 

One of the frustrations in researching Joseph Bond is a recurring statement in typed manuscripts as well as published genealogies. It is always unattributed and undocumented and most every instance is worded exactly as the others. The statement is that Joseph Bond is the son of Richard and Charity Bond. I have never seen more information than this nor, as I said, have I ever seen a hint of a source. I welcome any new information regarding Richard and Charity. But until some documentation is presented I believe the following Yorkshire parentage of Joseph Bond is more likely.

 

In 2001 I received a letter from Jonathan Schau, a descendant of Joseph Bond and Esther Jeanes through their son Joseph who married Esther Ellis. After a long and exciting correspondence I haven't heard from Jonathan in years but he provided a wealth of detail about the early Bond family in Yorkshire.

 

Citing sources from the Historical Society of Pennsylvania including the L. Gertrude Fryburg Collection, The Gilbert Cope Collection and records of the German Reformed Church of Philadelphia, Jonathan identified Joseph Bond as the son of Joseph Bond and Ann Shiers of Wrose, Bradford, Yorkshire  ENG. This Joseph Bond was the son of James Bond and Ann Pool of the same parish in Yorkshire according to records of the births, deaths and marriages of Bradford Quaker Meeting in Yorkshire. Falls Monthly Meeting records in Bucks Co. PA provided by Jay, also a descendant of Joseph, son of Joseph Bond and Esther Ellis, give more details. 

 

Philadelphia Monthly Meeting:
26 11mo, 1710 - A certificate on behalf of Joseph Bond and his wife from Brighouse MM in Yorkshire was read and approved

30 3mo, 1712 - Joseph Bond acquaints this meeting that he is about to remove to Bristol in Bucks County with his family and having brought a certificate from Great Britain desires one from this meeting on behalf of himself and his wife. 

29 10mo, 1738 - A Testimony against Hannah Boyd (late Bond) being prepared...was read (Outgoing in Marriage). [possibly Hannah, d/o Joseph Bond and Ann Shiers?]

 

Falls Monthly Meeting
27 Jul 1712 - Certificate, Joseph Bond and Ann his wife. Monthly meeting at Bristol of Bucks Co.


3 Mar 1713 - Certificate for Joseph Bond from Friends at Philadelphia was read and approved.


9 Apr 1713 - Joseph Bond produced a certificate on the account of his brother in law, John Shires, which was read and ordered to be recorded which came from Yorkshire in old England. 

 

 

 

 

While we weren't sure originally that the marriages of a James Bond to Sarah Booth and Ann Poole were the same James, this was also verified by Jonathan. He received a letter from Oliver Pickering of the University of Leeds with even more details of the family, some of which came from "The Society of Friends in Bradford" by H.R. Hodgson, published in 1926.

 

James Bond - d. 14 Feb 1722 Bradford, Yorkshire  ENG; 1m. Apr 1665 Bradford MM Sarah Booth d. 30 Sep 1668 Bradford, Yorkshire ENG, 2m. Aug 1670 Bradford MM Ann Pool d. 25 Feb 1718

James Bond was of Boulton (or Bolton), parish of Calverley, between Leeds and Bradford. He 'suffered' as a Quaker: with 80 others, he was summoned to Quarter Sessions at Wetherby, January 1683, where he was indicted for absence from parish church; refused to deny the indictment; refused to take the oath of allegiance; and was committed to prison. Refused to be sworn as a constable, and fined, 1691. Fined also for refusing to pay tithes, 1707.
-- Oliver Pickering, University of Leeds, from "The Society of Friends in Bradford", in email to Jonathan Schau and thence to several of our family.

James and Sarah Booth had one child:

  1. Elizabeth - b. 27 Sep 1668 Wrose, Bradford, Yorkshire  ENG. Probably the Elizabeth Bond who married Abraham Grimshaw of Calverly in 1698. The Grimshaws also happen to be ancestors of Oliver Pickering.

James and Ann Pool had six children whose births are all recorded in the Bradford Quaker Meeting records:

  1. Robert - Oct 1670 Wrose, Bradford, Yorkshire  ENG; m. 11 Apr 1694 Elizabeth Milton of Bradford
  2. Rachel - b. 28 Jun 1672 Wrose, Bradford, Yorkshire  ENG; m. 8 Apr 1696 Timothy Linsey
  3. John - 8 Dec 1674 Wrose, Bradford, Yorkshire  ENG; m. 11 Mar 1703 Hannah Kaye
    1. Hannah - b. 28 Mar 1704 Bradford, Yorkshire  ENG
  4. Mary - b. 10 Apr 1677 Wrose, Bradford, Yorkshire  ENG, d. 14 Jun 1760; m. 1707 Thomas Benson. Thomas Benson and Mary Bond are specifically named as the parents of Anne in the IGI record though the film, #6142796, is not named or described. I am listing the three children of Thomas and Mary to keep track of them.
    1. Tabitha - b. 28 Jul 1708 Gilderson, Balby, Yorkshire ENG
    2. Grace - b. 23 Jun 1715 Gilderson, Balby, Yorkshire ENG
    3. Anne - b. 1722 Gilderson, Balby, Yorkshire ENG
  5. Joseph - b. abt Sep 1679 Wrose, Bradford, Yorkshire  ENG, d. prob bef 1 Dec 1726 Bristol, Bucks  PA; m. 3 Mar 1706 Bradford MM, Bradford, Yorkshire ENG Ann Shiers of Sawley. (I found a family of Shiers/Shires in the Bradford records but no Ann.)
  6. Richard - b. 10 Feb 1684 Wrose, Bradford, Yorkshire  ENG

 

 

 

Joseph Bond, fifth child of James Bond and Ann Pool, married Ann Shiers 3 Mar 1706 according to Bradford Quaker Meeting records. Their first child, Joseph, was born in Yorkshire in 1708 and shortly after Joseph and Ann removed to Philadelphia PA. Additional references to Joseph Bond are scattered throughout Bucks Co records:

American Weekly Mercury
1 Dec 1727 - Bond, Joseph - dec'd; plantation late in his possession, near Bristol, Bucks Co, to be sold by William Fishbourn of Philadelphia.

 

Abstracts of General Loan Office Mortgages
 7 May 1723 - Joseph Bond of Bristol Twp, Bucks Co, yeo., Land in Bristol Twp bounded by Neshaminy Road and lands of Henry Tomlinson, Jeoffrey Pollard, William Fishbourne and Otter's Creek; 182 acres. 27 Oct 1729. 

 

PA Land Records, Book H
The Proprietor, by Deeds of Lease and Release, dated the 21st and 22nd of Apr'l 1682, granted to John Shiers, late of Grindleton, in Yorksh'r in Great Britain, but now of this Province, 1,000 acres of Land, 500 acres whereof being formerly laid out in the County of Bucks, he now desires the Remainder, with the Liberty Land, may be surveyed to him, w'ch is granted and Warranties signed, dated ye 3d 3mo, and 23, 3mo 1715.

 

PA Colonial Records
 Margaret (Welch) Smith, daughter of John Welch by his wife Ann (Bond) Welch, b. 19 May 1711, daughter of Joseph Bond, of Wrose, near Bradford, Yorkshire and Ann his wife, who brought a certificate to Philadelphia MM dated 8 Aug 1709; they located in Bristol, Bucks Co, Joseph Bond being one of the charter burgesses of that borough in 1712.

Joseph Bond and Ann Shiers had five children, births recorded in Falls Monthly Meeting minutes:

  1. Joseph - b. 11 Aug 1708 Wrose, Bradford, Yorkshire  ENG; m. 27 Oct 1750 German Reformed Church, Philadelphia PA Esther Jeanes, daughter of William Jeanes and Esther Brewer
  2. Ann - b. 19 May 1711 prob Philadelphia, Philadelphia  PA; m. John Welch
  3. Mary - b. 6 Feb 1715 prob Bristol, Bucks PA
  4. Samuel - b. 19 Aug 1717 prob Bristol, Bucks PA d. prob Frederick Co VA; m. 29 Apr 1749 Uwchlan MM Thomazine Downing b. 15 Aug 1727 d. bef Oct 1762, d/o Thomas Downing and Thomazine ___. Samuel purchased, in 1752, land in Whiteland, from John Spruce and wife, part of the original Thomas tract. They were members of Uwchlan Meeting, of which Thomazine was appointed an overseer 12, 18, 1758, but being deceased she was succeeded by Mercy Baldwin, 10, 8, 1762. Samuel Bond and some of his children removed to Frederick Co, VA early in 1791. -Genealogy of the Smedley Family by Gilbert Cope
    1. Joseph - m. 21 Nov 1776 Eleanor Williams
    2. Ann - b. 29 Oct 1752; m. 27 May 1773 Robert Valentine
    3. Hannah - m. 16 May 1776 John McPherson of VA
    4. Thomazine - b. 1755 d. 29 Jul 1782; m. 5 Nov 1775 George Spackman
    5. Jane - m. 13 Jan 1785 Thomas Stalker Jr.
    6. Sarah - m. 16 May 1793 Hopewell VA Asa Moore
       
  5. Hannah - 26 Dec 1719 prob Bristol, Bucks PA

 

 

 

 

 

Joseph Bond and Esther Jeanes had nine children:

 

1. Elizabeth - d. bef 30 May 1805 Plymouth, Montgomery PA, m. aft 27 Nov 1771 Richard Sands d. bef 24 Jul 1800 Plymouth, Montgomery PA. Richard's identity was confirmed for me by Elda Bardsley, a descendant. There were two Sands families in Montgomery Co and Richard appears to have been of the less well documented one. His parentage is unknown at this time. Richard and Elizabeth Sands had nine children:

  1. Esther - b. 1772 d. 19 Dec 1853
  2. Richard - b. 1773 d. 1836 m. Jane ___
  3. Joseph - b. 1774
  4. William - b. 1776 d. 1810
  5. Isaac - b. abt 1778
  6. Jacob - b. abt 1780
  7. Aaron - b. abt 1783
  8. Ezra - b. 7 Mar 1786 Montgomery Co PA d. 15 May 1869 Philadelphia PA; m. Ellen Post 17 Jan 1807, d/o Isaac Post and Mary W. ___
  9. Elizabeth - b. abt 1787

2. Joseph - b. 26 Jul 1756 d. 13 Dec 1834, m. 5 Mar 1786 Esther Ellis b. 2 Mar 1766 d. 26 Sep 1812. Esther is noted as the daughter of Thomas and Sarah Ellis in the family notes of Jay Willis. (A Thomas Ellis married a Sarah Stinson on 28 Mar 1765 according to Pennsylvania Marriages.) I haven't yet identified Esther Ellis' family though she was a sister to the Mary Ellis who married Joseph's brother, Isaac. Joseph and Esther Bond had eight children:

  1. Thomas - b. 19 Sep 1787 d. 10 Feb 1852; m. (probably) Laetitia, b. abt 1785 d. 1820. Laetitia as the name of Thomas' first wife is probable and though he also married again, his second wife's name is unknown. Thomas is listed in 1850 census Upper Delaware Ward of Philadelphia Co with two young women, Sarah (age 23) and Martha (age 18) Bond. Neither of these woman can be identified yet. Information on Thomas is from Jonathan Schau, descendant of Thomas' son Charles.
    1. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney Bond - b. abt 1807
  2. Anna - b. 10 Jan 1789 d. 6 Sep 1794
  3. John - b. 7 Feb 1791 d. 28 Oct 1823; Had at least two children according to Jonathan Schau and Jay Willis. This is possibly the John Bond listed in Newtown, Bucks Co in the 1820 census though there is not a woman enumerated in his household and only one son, under 10 years old.
  4. Joseph - b. 23 Aug 1792 d. aft 1870; m. 5 Apr 1824 Matilda Milton b. abt 1805 d. 12 Jan 1883, d/o Isaac Milton and Rachel Harding (Rachel's parents were Abraham Harding and Esther Bond, sister of John's father Joseph.).
    1. Susan - b. abt 1838
    2. Mathilda  - b. abt 1843 d. aft 1880; m. William Grant b. abt 1842 PA d. aft 1880
    3. Vanleer Eachus - b. abt 1844 d. 15 May 1863. Died of wounds suffered at the Battle of Chancellorville.
      Gravestone marker: Civil War veteran - Co. I, 124th PA. Inf. G.A.R.
  5. Sarah - b. 20 Feb 1794; Living with her sister Mary Eachus, wife of VanLeer Eachus, in 1850 Chester Co census, Tredyffrin Twp.
  6. Mary - b. 28 Aug 1796 d. 19 Jul 1870 Radnor, Delaware  PA; m. Vanleer T. Eachus; no issue. Listed in 1860 PA census, Radnor, Delaware Co with wife Mary B., her sister Sarah Bond, Charles Bond age 25, Joseph Bond age 22, Elizabeth Rich age 20, Elizabeth Reese age 21 and Elizabeth Leedom age 71 born New York. [Who is this Elizabeth Leedom? Jonathan Schau believes this to be Elizabeth Collins Leedom, second wife of John Leedom.]
  7. Jesse - b. 1 Jan 1799 d. 16 May 1849, bur. Haverford Friends Burial Ground, Haverford, Delaware PA; m. 13 Mar 1833 Elizabeth Kirk Super b. 1814 d. 7 Jul 1897, d/o Philip Super and Hannah Kirk.
    1. Samuel Super - b. 18 Jul 1834 Upper Darby, Delaware  PA, d. aft 4 Jun 1900 Washington D.C.
    2. Esther E. - b. 1838 d. 1904 bur. Haverford Friends Burial Ground, Haverford, Delaware PA.
    3. Rachel Emma - b. 16 Jul 1839 d. 9 Sep 1888; m. Lewis L. Bryan
    4. Hannah S. - b. 1843 d. 1904
    5. Mary E. - m. Edward D. Eyre
    6. VanLeer Eachus - b. 28 Sep 1848 Upper Darby, Delaware PA d. 7 Feb 1918
  8. David - b. 6 May 1802 d. 25 Feb 1872; m. 8 Nov 1832 Sarah Griffith b. 11 May 1807 d. 12 Jul 1869. Both David and Sarah are buried in Haverford Friends Burial Ground, Haverford, Delaware PA.

    They had at least two children:
    1. Ann Eliza - b. 7 Oct 1833 d. 27 Nov 1924; m. Samuel Butler Moore b. 26 May 1832 d. Nov 1914, s/o John Butler Moore and Mary Ann Key
    2. Joseph A. - b. 6 Jun 1837 d. 19 Aug 1899; m. 25 Aug 1864 Mary Jane Maris b. 6 Jul 1836, d/o Norris Maris and Ann Davis

3. Rebecca - b. 8 Oct 1757 Chester PA d. 4 Mar 1851; m. 6 Jun 1781 Bartholomew Fussell b. 28 Sep 1754 Philadelphia PA d. 17 Jan 1838 Yellow Springs, Chester  PA, the son of William Fussell and Sarah Longstreth. Bartholomew and Rebecca Fussell had eight children whose births are recorded in Uwchlan Monthly Meeting records, Uwchlan Twp, Chester PA:

  1. Esther - b. 18 Mar 1782 Uwchlan Twp, Chester PA d. 8 Feb 1848; m. 10 Sep 1818 Little Falls Meeting, MD John Lewis, Jr., s/o John Lewis and Grace Meredith.
  2. William - b. 30 Jun 1783 Uwchlan Twp, Chester PA d. 4 Jun 1856; m. 28 Sep 1809 Quakertown Meeting, Bucks  PA Jane Foulke d/o Edward Foulke and Elizabeth Roberts.
  3. Sarah - b. 10 Sep 1784 Uwchlan Twp, Chester PA d. 11 Aug 1860; m. 8 Dec 1812 Thomas P. Jacobs s/o Thomas Jacobs and Lydia ___.
  4. Joseph - b. 26 Apr 1787 Uwchlan Twp, Chester PA d. 15 Oct 1855 Fall Creek IN; m. 14 Jun 1814 Gwynedd Meeting, Montgomery PA Elizabeth Moore, d/o Henry Moore and Priscilla Jackson.
  5. Solomon - b. 28 Jun 1789 Uwchlan Twp, Chester PA d. 1 Mar 1849 Fall Creek IN; m. 6 Feb 1816 Gwynedd Meeting, Montgomery PA Milcah Martha Moore, d/o Henry Moore and Priscilla Jackson.
  6. Jacob - b. 7 Feb 1792 Uwchlan Twp, Chester PA d. 7 Aug 1855 Philadelphia PA; m. 4 Dec 1814 Clarissa Whitaker d/o Joshua Whitaker and Ruth Howard.
  7. Bartholomew - b. 9 Jan 1794 Uwchlan Twp, Chester PA d. 14 Jan 1871; m. 26 May 1826 Lydia Morris d/o Morris Morris Jerusha Whitton.
  8. Rebecca - b. 21 Apr 1796 Uwchlan Twp, Chester PA d. 8 Jul 1882 bur. Merion, Montgomery  PA; m. 21 Mar 1837 Joseph Trimble

4. Sarah - m. Isaac Roberts


5. Isaac - d. bef 6 Feb 1824 Haverford, Delaware  PA; m. Mary Ellis

  1. Anna Maria
  2. Sarah - b. abt 1802 d. 15 May 1880; m. Joseph B. Harding b. 23 Nov 1798 d. 9 Feb 1870, s/o Abraham Harding and Esther Bond. Both buried at Radnor FBG. After Joseph's death in Feb Sarah resided with Ella L. Cline and her husband in 1870 Radnor, Delaware Co census listing. Her middle iniital is B in that listing. Ella was listed with Joseph and Sarah in 1860 but I do not know what relation, if any, she may have been to them.
  3. Jonathan - There is a Jonathan Bond listed in the transcribed record of burials at Merion Meeting Graveyard but no dates or ages are given. Sharing his grave is an unnamed child. Jonathan's grandfather Joseph is buried in this graveyard so it's possible but not proven that these records refer to this Jonathan Bond.
  4. Isaac
    1. Isaac
    2. Mary
    3. Thomas

6. Mary - m. 16 May 1786 German Reformed Church, Philadelphia PA Lewis Hansal. The first possible reference I've found is that a Mary Hansell died 4 Feb 1829 according to the Ladie's Literary Portfolio in PA Vital Records. There is both a Lewis Hansell and a Mary Hansell buried at Merion Friends Burial Ground in Montgomery but there are no dates listed for either and I do not know that they are this couple. The source - Records of Merion Graveyard, by Thomas Wynn and C.E. Hires, 1702-1808
As Lewis and Mary were married in the German Reformed Church they may have been buried in the church grounds of Lewis' family, wherever that may have been.

 

7. Esther - b. 8 Oct 1759 d. Sep 1824; m. Abraham Harding b. 5 Nov 1759 d. 9 Aug 1821 Abraham Harding was the son of Henry Harding and Mary Shaw. Abraham and Esther Harding had eleven children:

  1. Mary - b. 29 May 1782 d. 4 Oct 1863; m. Abraham Richardson b. in England.
    1. Anna -  b. 11 Feb 1811; m. Elijah Louden
    2. Benjamin - b. 29 Dec 1812
    3. Alexander - b. 28 May 1814 d. 1815
    4. Abraham - b. 20 Feb 1816; m. Dr. Margaret Philiips
    5. Lemuel - b. 26 Oct 1817; m. Anna Miller
    6. Mary - b. 30 Sep 1819 d. 1837
    7. Robert - b. 31 Oct 1821; m. Naomi T. Jones
  2. Susannah - b. 1 Sep 1783 d. 18 Mar 1841; m. Benjamin Pawling b. 2 Apr 1785 d. 9 May 1847 s/o Samuel Pawling and Mary Yocum
    1. Charles - b. 1809 d. 1814
    2. Abraham - b. 1811 d. 1815
    3. Mary Ann - b. 1812 d. 1867; m. Isaac Shimp
    4. Sarah - b. 1814 d. 1814
    5. Elizabeth - b. 1816; m. Samuel Rutherford
    6. Keziah - b. 1818; m. M. F. Albright
    7. Samuel - b. 1820 d. 1838
    8. Susannah - b. 1823 d. 1877
    9. Rebecca - b. 1825 d. 1826
  3. Rachel - b. 9 Jun 1787 d. 6 Apr 1825; m. Isaac Milton d. aft 1825
    1. Mathilda - b. abt 1805 (m. Joseph Bond, s/o Joseph Bond and Esther Ellis - see above)
    2. Margaret - b. 1818; m. Aaron White
    3. Esther - m. William Grant
    4. Elizabeth - m. ___ Griffith
    5. Mary - b. 9 Dec 1815
    6. Susannah
    7. Thomas
  4. Elizabeth - b. 5 Aug 1788 d. 24 Sep 1845 bur. Lower Merion Friends Burial Ground, Montgomery PA; m. Jesse Pawling
    1. Emeline Bonner - b. 27 Aug 1830 d. 31 Dec 1912; m. John Andrew Jackson Moore b. 29 Mar 1828 Willistown, Chester PA d. 31 Oct 1900 Oakmont, Haverford, Delaware PA, s/o John Butler Moore and Mary Ann Key.
    2. Benjamin
    3. Esther
    4. Levi
    5. Israel
    6. Mary
    7. Jesse
    8. Elizabeth
    9. Joseph
    10. Anna
  5. Sarah - b. 20 Oct 1789 d. 20 Sep 1791
  6. Anna - b. 22 Oct 1791 d. 4 May 1864; m. James Hobbs 
  7. Esther - b. 11 Jan 1794 d. 5 Aug 1795
  8. Isaac - b. 23 Aug 1796 d. 18 Oct 1874; m. 11 Oct 1821 Frances Peacock b. 16 Apr 1798 d. 1 Sep 1872
  9. Joseph B. - b. 23 Nov 1798 d. 9 Feb 1870; m. Sarah Bond b. abt 1802 d. 15 May 1880, d/o Isaac Bond and Mary Ellis. Both are bur. Radnor FBG, Radnor, Delaware PA
  10. Rebecca - b. 13 Apr 1801; m. Jesse Childs
  11. John - b. 7 Feb 1803; m. Elizabeth Sanders

8. Rachel - b. 1766 d. 1830; m. in 1788 John Leedom, son of Samuel Leedom and Hannah Staats. John was bap. on 19 Jun 1768, Low Dutch Reformed Church of North and Southampton, Bucks PA and d. 1842 prob Montgomery PA. John and Rachel Leedom had eight children:

  1. John B. - b. 1792 d. 1842; m. Elizabeth Thomas
  2. Charles B. - b. 26 May 1793 Concord Twp, Delaware PA d. 1848; m. Susannah Roberts b. 1792 d. Dec 1890
  3. Hannah - b. 25 Jan 1795 Concord Twp, Delaware PA; m. Charles Jones
  4. Joseph B. - b. 8 Mar 1796 Concord Twp, Delaware PA d. 28 Mar 1864 Haverford, Delaware PA; m. 1821 Mary Maris Worrall b. 17 Jun 1787 d. 26 Aug 1866 Haverford, Delaware PA, d/o Elisha Worrell and Mary Maris
  5. Samuel - b. 31 Dec 1797 Concord Twp, Delaware Co, d. 1872 Cobb's Creek, Haverford; 1m. Eliza Steel
  6. Esther - b. 18 Apr 1799 Concord Twp, Delaware PA; m. Jesse Thomas
  7. Elijah - b. 1808 d. 6 Apr 1875 Bucks Co; m. 12 Aug 1830 Jane Anderson b. 1814 d. 1886 
  8. Ruth Ann - b. 11 Feb 1808 d. 18 Mar 1890; m. Jacob Carncross

9. Anna - m. Edward Humphreys

 

 

 

 

As I wrote above, Joseph and Isaac Bond married sisters, Esther and Mary Ellis, though I cannot connect them to any of the Ellis families in Chester Co as of yet. The will of a Jesse Ellis mentions "my niece, Esther Bond, wife of Joseph Bond". Jesse Ellis was a son of Margaret Ellis, the daughter of Humphrey Ellis and Jane David:

ELLIS, Jesse, will probated 29 Oct 1799, Haverford, Delaware Co:
To wife Hannah ELLIS, son in law John FREE and daughter Mary FREE, if no issue, heirs to be children of "niece Esther BOND wife of Joseph BOND"....

Humphrey Ellis married Jane David before 1691. Two daughters are of interest to me:

  1. Rachel - b. 28 Apr 1691 Haverford, Bucks PA m. Godfrey Kirk 17 Nov 1724 Haverford Meeting
  2. Mary - b. 8 Feb 1700 m. William Kirk 9 Jun 1747 Haverford Meeting

I am interested in the Kirk family because of the marriage of my 5G aunt Elizabeth Leedom to a Kirk, probably Joseph, according to the will of her father, Samuel Leedom, written in Delaware Co PA in 1814. 

Another Ellis connection: Rachel Ellis married James Steel, b. abt 1760 Philadelphia PA, son of Andrew Steel and Mary Massey. See my Steele family page for more on the family of this Rachel's husband.

 

 

 

 

Glenn Bond has an intriguing Bond family in Ontario. His 3G grandmother was Mary E. Bond who named her eldest son Isaac Joseph Bond, all given names in my Bond family. His family lore states that the Bonds were Loyalists during the Revolution and Quakers, originally from PA. Is emigration to Canada the reason for a lack of PA records for some of my Bond family?

 

 


 

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