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Notes on tfir iFamilfts of Bontt antr Stoa»ne
town [Elizabeth, N. Jersey], where his influence was second only to John
Ogden's. Carteret, at his coming, was glad to avail himself of his mature
experience, and appointed him, Jan. 2, i66|, one of his Council, and an
Assistant to the Justices. . . ." He was one of the six members of
the Council in the first General Assembly of New Jersey at EHzabethtown,
in 1668. Gov. Winthrop of Connecticut highly commended him as a
person " of good repute and approved integrity." He became interested
in the Newark colony, and in 1672 was elected their Representative.
He continued still to reside in Elizabethtown, where he died in 1677.
Mr. Bond's second wife was a daughter of Hugh Calkins, an emigrant
from Wales in 1640, and a resident first of Gloucester, Mass., and then of
New London, Conn. Mr. Bond had children ; of whom were Stephen of
Newark and Joseph. Stephen married Bethia Lawrence, widow, in 1694,
and had Joseph and Hannah.
" Mr." Bond's distinction in character and position in this country gives
us reason to believe that he belonged to a good family in England. We
have not yet attempted to trace his ancestry, but hope to do so. In
Burke's " General Armory " we find several coats of arms belonging to
different or kindred famiHes of the name of Bond. Hutchins's "Dorset"
gives the pedigree of the Bonds of the Isle of Purbeck. Burke's
" Commoners" describes them as descended from a family of great antiquity
in Cornwall, commencing with Robert Bond of Hache Beauchamp,
CO. Somerset, living in 143 1, father of Robert who married Mary daughter
of Lord Chief Justice Hody. Robert and Jane were frequent family-
names. One branch of his descendants settled in Dorset, and another
founded the Essex family of Bond. Of one branch was Sir George Bond,
Mayor of London in 1587, and Sir Thomas Bond, Comptroller to Queen
Henrietta Maria, created a Baronet by King Charles II. The arms of the
Bonds of Purbeck, co. Dorset are : Quarterly : i and \ Sable, a fess Or ;
2 and 3 Argent, on a Chevron Sable three bezants.
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