Brief Life History of Nathaniel
When Nathaniel Bond was born on 3 January 1800, in Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Jacob Bond, was 33 and his mother, Hannah Merrit, was 35. He married Mary B. Kent on 7 April 1830, in Spencer, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Ware, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States in 1850 and Nanticoke, Broome, New York, United States in 1855. He died on 30 November 1878, in Sturbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in North Cemetery, Sturbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Nathaniel Bond, "Massachusetts State Census, 1865"
- Nathaniel Bond, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Nathan'l Bond, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910"
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1803
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
1806
Historical Boundaries 1806: Broome, New York, United States
1821 · Financial Relief for Public Land
A United States law to provide financial relief for the purchasers of Public Lands. It permitted the earlier buyers, that couldn't pay completely for the land, to return the land back to the government. This granted them a credit towards the debt they had on land. Congress, also, extended credit to buyer for eight more years. Still while being in economic panic and the shortage of currency made by citizens, the government hoped that with the time extension, the economy would improve.
Name Meaning
English: status name for a peasant farmer or husbandman, Middle English bond(e), bounde, occasionally bande ‘bondman, customary tenant, serf’ (Old English bonda, bunda, reinforced by Old Norse bóndi). The Old Norse word was also in use as a personal name (Old Norse Bóndi, Bondi, Bundi, Bonde, borrowed as late Old English Bonda), and this has given rise to other English and Scandinavian surnames alongside those originating as status names, such as the Middle English personal name Bonde. The status of the peasant farmer fluctuated considerably during the Middle Ages; moreover, the underlying ancient Germanic word is of disputed origin and meaning. Among ancient Germanic peoples who settled to an agricultural life, the term came to signify a farmer holding lands from, and bound by loyalty to, a lord; from this developed the sense of a free landholder as opposed to a serf. In England after the Norman Conquest the word sank in status and became associated with the notion of bound servitude. The name can also be a variant of Band .
Swedish: variant of Bonde .
In some cases also an American shortened form of Ukrainian Bondarenko and possibly also of some other surname beginning with Bond-.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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