Know all men by these presents that I Corban Barnes of Plymouth in the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay as principal (Mariner) & Samuel Jackson Merchant of the Town & Colony aforesaid as Surety are holden & stand firmly bount & obligd unto Henry Gardner Esqr of Stow in the County of Middlesex & province aforesaid Treasurer & Receiver General of said Colony or his successor in said office in the full & just sum of Five Thousand pounds Law[ful] money to be paid unto the said Treasurer or Receiver General or to his Successor in said office, to the true payment whereof we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors & administrators, jointly & severally firmly by these presents: seald with our Seals the fourth Day of January Anno Domini 1776 ー

The Condition of the above obligation is such, that whereas, the said Corban Barnes did on the seventeenth day of December 1775 Receive a Commission to command an armed Vessel called the Yankee burthen about seventy five Tons (a Sloop) to make Reprisals of all armed & other Vessels, that shall be found supplying the Enemy or acting counter to a Law of this Colony entitled "an act for encourageing the fixing out of armed Vessels to defend the Sea Coasts of America & for erecting a Court to try & condemn all Vessels, that shall be found infesting the same" If therefore the sd Corban Barnes shall, and, and do, in & by all things, well & truly observe, and fulfil such Instructions, as he shall receive from the Council of this Colony, & shall in all respects conform himself to the Directions given in & by the act aforesaid, then the above written obligation to be paid otherwise to remain in full force & affect

Signd Sealed & deliverd in presence of us Jas: Warren   Wm Watson