Person Sheet


Name Stephen BOND417, 6G Grandfather, B530
Birth ca 1750, Rowan County (now Guilford), North Carolina417
Father Joseph BOND (1704-1758)
Mother Martha ROGERS
Spouses:
1 Maiden417, 6G Grandmother
Children: Ruth (1773-)
Martha (1774-)
Mary (1776-)
Patience (1778-)
Charity (1780-)
Stephen (1782-1796)
Kezia (1784-)
Nathan (1786-1872)
Benjamin (Twin) (1788-)
Rebecca (Twin) (1788-)
Isaac (1790-)
Ann (1793-)
Rachel (1796-)
Joseph (1798-)
Notes for Stephen BOND
"Stephen joined the New Garden Monthly Meeting in 1775."417

"The family moved to Surry County, North Carolina in the Captain Gaines Militia District."417

Stephen Bond appears in the Surry County Court Minutes of N.C. 1790-1795 at several times, once as the overseer of a road.417

"Stephen moved his church membership to the Deep River Monthly Meeting in 1778. Then is 1794 he moved it again to Westfield Monthly Meeting and settled in Grayson (now Carroll) County, Virginia."417

"After moving to the Pine Creek section of Grayson County (now Carroll), Stephen bought 140 acres from Zachariah Stanley. It was deeded and paid for by 1804. The Lindseys and the Mitchells were his neighbors."417

"The marriage of Stephen and Maiden began to have trouble when the girls were becoming of marriageable age. In the Mount Pleasant Quaker records it was recorded:
Martha Beales (formerly Bond) dismissed 1804
Charity Bond dismissed 1802
Kezia Bond dismissed 1804
Patience Bond dismissed 1804
Maiden Bond dismissed 1805
One can only wonder why. Maybe Maiden was allowing her daughters to court and marry young men that weren't Quakers. Nevertheless, Maiden was in Grayson County Court by 1808, suing Stephen for non support. Glayds Gangley in 'Female Settles of Carroll County' wrote about Maiden. She states that Maiden was one of five females living in this era of Grayson County history that was allowed by court to sue for separate maintenance. Gangley wrote that aomng the restrictions on married women's rights in Virginia during this time frame was, 'women weren't permitted to bring suit.' Once a woman married she was covered by common law, which meant that she couldn't convey property, make a valid contract, sue or be sued, execute a deed, or make a legal will without her husband's consent or participation. Anyway, Maiden did bring suit in March Couty 1808. 'For reasons appearing to the court, It is ordered that Maiden Bond wife of Stephen Bond be permitted a suit against her jusband for allimony and that Alexander Smith be appointed her council Who as well as all other officers of the court shall perform their various duties without fee or reward she being a pauper. And that the said Stephen Bond pay her the sum of twenty-five dollars annually for her support until the said suit shall be determined.' In 1808 Stephen and Maiden must have had children still at home...As the court made no mention of the children, it is quite probable that Stephen finished raising the children. Also, Stephen did not get dismissed from the Quaker church as he surely would have been if he was the cause of his marriage being'out of unity'.
Stephen sold his farm to Benjamin in 1817 and moved to Montgomery (now Floyd) County, Virginia. He is listed in the 1820 census records there. Also his son Isaac married there and his caughter Kezia was living there at the time.
Maiden joined the New Hope Primitive Baptist Church in her later years, as she is listed in New Hope Membership Book One. No other records could be found of Maided after 1828 and one has to assume she died shortly thereafter."417
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