He supported the Parliamentarian cause in the English Civil War and served as president of the Council of State during the Commonwealth.
[1] When the Civil War broke out a couple of years later, he supported the Parliamentary cause and was a sufficiently hardline anti-Royalist to retain his seat in the Rump after Pride's Purge in 1648.
Bond married Joan Gould (sister of one of his fellow investors in the Dorchester Company) in 1610.
Their eldest son, John (1612–1676), was a Puritan preacher, who became Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge and Professor of Law at Gresham College as well as MP for Weymouth.
After his first wife's death Bond was married again, in 1622, to Lucy Lawrence; two of their sons, Samuel and Nathaniel (1634–1707), were also MPs.