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Excerpt from Memorials of William Cranch Bond: Director of the Harvard College Observatory 1840 1859 and of His Son George Philips Bond, Director of the Harvard College Observatory 1859 1865
My father, william he says, in the year 1780 found that he was nearly related, if not heir at law to the william bond who held the estate Of Brendon, in the parish of St. Dominic, County of Cornwall, England, A. D. 1711. T From this stock branch Off the bonds of St. Austell, Cornwall. My father visited Brendon in 1780, and saw the dates Of entry of all the possessors Of that estate, from the time of william the Conqueror down to the date of his visit, beginning with the inscription on an oaken tablet in the hall 'william bond came to Brendon, A. D. This was followed by a succession of william bonds, without any other name intervening, down to the year 1780. In 1883 I went there with Brother hugh curtis. It was then held by a william bond.
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