Jane Bond married Thomas Atkinson Grandma Hensleys side,,,,,Marriage*: 4 June 1678, Knaresborough Monthly Meeting, Yorkshire, England, The meeting register is somewhat illegible at this point; some copyist have rendered this name Boid, and one Bord..., Principal=Thomas Atkinson1 Immigration*: between 1681 and 1682, New Jersey Marriage*: 11 December 1688, house of William Biles, Falls Twp., Bucks Co., Pennsylvania, Hough cites register of Middletown Monthly Meeting, Principal=William Biles2 Burial*: 21 December 1709, Bucks Co., Pennsylvania, 3 Note*: Jane Bond was unusually well educated, was a minister among Friends, traveling extensively in ministry in the colonies and, in 1701-2, in England and Ireland. She served on numerous committees, first of the Neshamina (Middletown) Monthly Meeting, and then the Falls Meeting, twice representing Falls at the Yearly Meeting. She wrote a often cited testimony about her first husband, and one was written about her. She made a testimony against George Keith at a yearly meeting 1693. For more biographical information see the articles by Miles White and Oliver Hough. Also, they cite accounts of her and both her husbands published in The Friend. Shorter accounts can be found in Davis and Jordon.
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