>I asked a family member if they could think of any more information on >William Wellington Bond and of course they couldn't. However, she went on >to say that one of the BOND relatives was a judge in England and that he >impeached a King and had to flee England because of it. He brought his >family to America. He had 3 sons. One settled in VA, one in KY and one >went west. Does anyone know anything about this????? > >James >jadds@bellatlantic.net I can't say with hard factual knowledge that William Wellington BOND was not one of the "regicides" (judges and court officers responsible for the trial and eventual execution of Charles I of England), but I believe that he was not a member of that group. However, a Denis BOND d. 1658 was an appointed member of the commission that did try Charles I. He additionally had been a member (starting in 1649) of the Council of State and in 1652 became the President of that Council. About two years after his death, in 1660 (after the Restoration of the Crown) a later commission condemned 10 of the regicides to death and/or 25 years to life in prison. One of these was an ancestor of mine, William GOFFE, who escaped to America and lived out his life in semi-secrecy in New England. I know little else about Denis BOND and haven't studied the complete history of the regicides, but to this point in time Denis is the only BOND I've seen mentioned. -Donald Phillips Bond