-----Original Message----- From: PhyllisM19 <PhyllisM19@aol.com> To: BOND-L@rootsweb.com <BOND-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, March 12, 1998 6:45 PM Subject: Re: Re: Bond >Hi, >I'm not the one to whom you directed your answer, but I have a Captain William >BOND b. c. 1655 who was involved in bringing rice from the Carolinas and had >to put in to New York in 1706 as the vessel was taking and the rice was >getting wet. >He was also at one time storekeeper of the fort, surveyor, and finally settled >in Ulster Co. receiving large land grants. He had only three daughters and his >wife is not known. >From a copy of an original record it appears that he was educated. He wrote a >good hand and his English was correct. All of which leads me to wonder if he >was of the Bond English ship builders?? >Does this strike any chords? >Phyllis J. Miller Phyllis, Sorry it doesn't. I am really flying in the dark on this one. Another genealogist discovered a family group sheet in Salt Lake which gave the information on Clary Bond and William Bond. I have no other information. Thanks for your interest. I will file the information you sent in my Bond file and wait and see what developes. Shirley >