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Note: These two records of Ann Barney are in Baltimore Co. MD:
St. Thomas Parish Vestry Book lists children of Moses and Sarah Barney:
Thomas born 19 July 1759
Benjamin born 17 Jan 1761
Anne born 9 Dec 1762
Also listed on page 28 # 155 is a marriage:
Benjamin Bond and Ann Barney 19 July 1782
There is one document in Tyler Co., WV that identifies Ann as the wife of Benjamin; all others give her name as Nancy. It is a deed dated 4 April 1822 for 200 acres of property on Middle Island Creek, from "Benjamin Bond and Ann his wife of the County of Tyler and State of Virginia of the first part, and John Bond and George Bond of the same place... sum of Five Hundred dollars..." This is the Centerville land where Benjamin lives that he sells to his two sons. They then give their father a lifetime lease on the property. (pg 417-418)
In this time period all but one of the wives of the other known Benjamin Bond's in the Baltimore area have been identified. The marriage of Benjamin born 1742 in St. Johns Parish has not been found. This leaves two possible Benjamin's for Anne Barney to have married. Our Benjamin born 1756 is nearer the right age and is living closer to the Barney family. Benjamin, Sr. and Jr. moved just north of St. Thomas Parish before 1773. The cousin Benjamin also in St. Thomas Parish married Nancy Gorsuch.
The known birth dates of the children of Benjamin and Nancy indicate that they had only one child in the first 10 years of their marriage . However there are 2 unknown dates. Their other children are born close enough together that it is likely that Michael and Betsey were born early in the marriage before 1792. Anne is often the nickname for Nancy.
West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia Supplement, Vol 1 page 230
"BARNEY B. BOND -- born in Tyler county, July 8, 1825, is a grandson of one of the earliest and most prominent of the settlers in the country. He is of English descent, his great, great, grandfather, Peter Bond, having been born in England, as was the wife he chose. They came to America, and Benjamin Bond, great grandfather of Barney B., was born in Baltimore, Maryland. Benjamin Bond, jr., grandfather of Barney B., married Nancy Barney, and in 1808 they came to Tyler county, where their days were ended. John Bond, their son, was a soldier of the 1812 war, married Margaret Furbee, and the subject of this sketch is one of their children. John Bond died March 11, 1841, and his widow is still living in this country. The marriage of Barney B. Bond and Ellen C. Eslack was consummated in Ritchie county, now West Virginia, February 3, 1853. She was born in Harrison county, then part of Virginia, May 22, 1834, and her parents, Thomas W. and Eliza C. (Marsh) Eslack, died in the county of her birth. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Bond were born: Inez A., April 30, 1854; Jennie I., March 4, 1856, died December 7, 1857; Viola, July 6, 1860, died October 1864; a son, April 11, 1863/(note....no name given); Corrilia Carmenta J., July 4, 1870; Olive M., December 29, 1872 -- the living children are at home. Barney B. Bond held commission under the State of Virginia as captain of militia; he filled the office of constable, 1858-9, and was justice of the peace in 1872. In Centerville district he owns and carries on a first-class farm, and receives his mail at Bearsville, Tyler county, West Virginia."
"I was told this was written ca 1883 when people who were in town on that day at the courthouse paid $5.00 to have their history written in Hardesty's History Books"
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Note that Barney Bond does not distinguish between Peter Sr. and Jr. and thus misses one generation. Benjamin Bond, Jr. was born in Baltimore.
There daughter Atticus married Alexander Furbee. I found a report on the web that "Alex went to California in 1849 to join the Gold Rush, later he started back home with 2 companions, but was never heard from again." There is an Alexander Furbee (age 46) in the 1850 El Dorado, California census with no relatives with the Furbee name, showing he did go to California in the 1849 Gold Rush..
Another daughter married William Sommerville. During his life he has been taxed to build four court houses, and he hopes, when his time comes to die, "he may go where court houses and lawyers are unknown." from History of Des Moines County, Iowa
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