| 8. | Peter Bond was born about 1640 in Peckham, England (son of Thomas Bond); died before 28 Apr 1705 in Baltimore County, MD. Other Events and Attributes:
- Probate: 28 Apr 1705, Baltimore County, MD
Notes:
Peter came to Maryland in 1660. First had land near the mouth of the Paapsco River where Baltimore now stands. Thomas, William and John lived north of Baltimore. Peter and Jane lived west of Baltimore.
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Peter BOND, son of Thomas BOND of Peckham, England, immigrated to Maryland with the very first wave of Quakers emigrating from England in 1660. In 1669, the authorities of the colony paid him a considerable amount of tobacco, the local currency, for unspecified services. By 1670, Peter was a planter on the edge of civilization. In the forest along the Patapsco River, he blazed his claim of 301 acres, recorded as "Bond's Forest" on the Rent Rolls of Lord Baltimore. This land was near the mouth of the Patapsco where Baltimore now is.
Peter built a small wharf on Deep Creek where he tied his sail boat. Farther back, near an Indian trail leading south and close to a cool spring, he built a log home with the broad outside chimney found in other pioneer houses. In 1678, the government again reimbursed him for non-military services during a brief Indian war.
Alice, Peter's wife, wrote her name in a fair hand in the deeds after her husband's name.
In 1698, the boundary between Anne Arundel County and the newly formed Baltimore County was described as running "westward along the Mountain Road to William Hawkins' Path; thence, leaving the road by a line west to Wiliam Glade's Path; thence, west between the draught of the Magothy and Patapsco to a Mountain of White Stone Rock; still continuing west to a road going to Patapsco to Peter Bond's to two marked trees as aforesaid; thence west to the main road to Patapsco Ferry."
Peter died in 1705, and his widow married a year or so later to a Phillip Washington. He left a son, Peter, born around 1680, so 25, a son Thomas, born 1679, age 26, a son William, age 17 - 20, a son John, age unknown, and a daughter, Jane. Peter inherited at his father's death, the forest homestead. Thomas, William, and John each received one hundred acres of a carefully chosen tract named "Harris His Trust" at the head of Bush River, a broad estuary in what is now Harford County, near the great north and south artery of colonial traffic, once a Seneca Indian Trail.
After his father's death, Peter lived with his widowed mother in the old Forest. He married Elinor Gwynn, the daughter of a wealthy Indian trader, Richard Gwynn. Peter then sold the old homestead and settled on a plantation of his wife's, farther up the Patapsco, where the Seneca Trail or Great Eastern Road crossed Gwynn's Falls. The old homestead sold by Peter in 1709, was sold "with woods, underwoods, timber and timber trees, houses, outhouses, gardens, orchards, cornfields, pastures, ferries, marshes, copches, sedges, ways, easements, etc." In 1802, when it was surveyed for division with the eastward half going to John Williams, the white oak from which the first Peter's survey had started 114 years before, was still alive and standing, but they placed a stone at its foot for future surveys.--from The Bonds of Earth
Peter married Alice. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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1739 - 1791 (52 years)