Bond, John (3)

Bond, John (3), a Baptist minister, was born in Anson County, N. C., Feb. 23, 1787. He removed, when a child, with his father's family to Union District, S. C., and in 1806 to Wilson County, Tenn He was converted in 1802. In 1820 he was ordained, and became pastor of the Union Church, and continued to hold the office thirty-nine years, for which service he received eleven dollars, the result of a donation party. For a term of years he was also pastor of Smith's Fork Church. For many years he was the moderator of the Concord Association, and took rank with the best ministers of his denomination in Tennessee. He died March 2, 1871. See Borum, Sketches of Tennessee Ministers, p. 92-95. (J. C. S.)