Donald, Thank you for the information and the lead. Angie jadds@bellatlantic.net -----Original Message----- From: NBNetJ@aol.com <NBNetJ@aol.com> To: BOND-L@rootsweb.com <BOND-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Tuesday, January 05, 1999 12:19 PM Subject: Re: Bonds >>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 > >______________________________