[1] In August 1793, Bond married his first wife, Adelphia Batson, in Burke County, Georgia.

[4] In retaliation for the massacre of 500 settlers at Fort Mims, Alabama, Governor David Holmes mobilized the Mississippi Territorial Militia to assault the Creek Indians.

Among the Mississippi military units responding was the 13th Regiment, including Captain John Bond's Company.

[3] While still in military service (1815–17), John Bond represented Marion and Lawrence Counties in the Mississippi Territorial Legislature.

Colonel Bond received a bounty-land warrant for his services in the War of 1812, and built a home on the property along Riceville Road, near what was to become McHenry, Mississippi.