follow my example: Keep up your spirits, and that will keep up your bodies; you will no more stoop under the weight of age, than if you had swallowed a handspike.
It is in a postscript to this letter he adds:
I have bought some valuable books, which I intend to present to the Society, but shall not send them till safer times.
Dr. Bond's daughter, Rebecca, married 21 September, 1768, Thomas Lawrence, the grandson of Thomas Lawrence, the Councillor and his fellow-Trustee, and their second daughter, Sarah Rebecca, married Warren de Lancey, a grandson of Governor Cadwallader Colden, and cousin of Provost de Lancey's father.
He was described as of a delicate constitution, and disposed to pulmonary consumption, but by unremitting care of his health he passed beyond the threescore and ten years, though his life was an unceasingly active one, both in practice and authorship; he died 26 March, 1784. His remains lie in Christ Church Burying Ground, and on his stone is engraven this epitaph:
In memory of
Thomas Bond M D
who practised Physic and Surgery
with signal reputation and success
nearly half a century.
Lamented and beloved
by many
Respected and esteemed
by all
and adorned by literary honors
sustained by him with dignity.
He was as constant as his brother in his attendance on the Trustees meeting and was one of the faithful ones who attended the last meeting on 22 November, 1779, under the charter of 1755, the only one of the original Trustees who then attended. He was a member of St. John's Lodge in 1734, Junior Grand Warden in 1741, and Senior Grand Warden in 1755.
