Bond, Joseph

  • DICTIONARY OF CANADIAN BIOGRAPHY ARTICLE: Colin D. Howell, “BOND, JOSEPH NORMAN,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 6, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–. https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/bond_joseph_norman_6E.html
  • DCB profile:
    • Doctor, militia officer, office holder, JP, and judge; b. 28 May 1758 in Neston, Cheshire, England, eighth son of James Bond and his wife Mary; m. 5 May 1785 Elizabeth Bell in Shelburne, N.S., and they had 17 children; d. 15 March 1830 in Yarmouth, N.S.
    • Joseph Norman Bond was descended from a family of great antiquity in Cornwall. Like his father and grandfather, he was educated in medicine. After receiving his training in London, Bond left England about 1779 as surgeon and captain’s clerk on a merchant ship bound for Jamaica. Soon after his arrival he sailed aboard a privateer to New York, where he joined the British army and was made a surgeon’s mate. Bond was at the surrender at Yorktown, Va, on 19 Oct. 1781. For some time he administered medicine to troops made prisoner with John Burgoyne and Lord Cornwallis. In the fall of 1783 he came to Shelburne, N.S., from New York in the loyalist exodus, and in 1786 was granted a water lot there.
    • In 1787 Bond moved from Shelburne to Yarmouth, where he embarked upon a long career of public service. For about 20 years he was the only regular physician in what is now Yarmouth County. Bond was an active member of the Yarmouth community and held a number of offices, both civil and military. In July 1796 he was commissioned captain of the Yarmouth Volunteer Artillery Company.
    • During his career Bond was also engaged in a number of civic improvement projects. In May 1802 the Nova Scotia government appointed him the commissioner for building the Tusket River bridge, east of Yarmouth, which was completed the next year, and in April 1805 he became commissioner of sewers for Yarmouth. Early in 1811 he and some others formed an association known as the Yarmouth Lock and Canal Proprietors in order to construct locks which would connect Yarmouth Harbour with lakes in the interior of the township. 
  • United Empire Loyalist listed in Loyalist Directory: https://uelac.ca/loyalist-directory/detail/?wpda_search_column_id=12159
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