Know all men by these Presents that we Peter Folger & Gilbert Folger both of Sherburn in the County of Nantucket are holden and stand firmly bound & obliged to Henry Gardner Esqr of Stow in the County of middlesex Treasurer of the Colony of the Massa Bay or his Successors in Sd office in the full & Just Sum of Two Thousands Pounds, to the which Payment well and Truly to be made, we bind ourselves our Heirs, Executors administrators & Assigns Jointly & Severally firmly by these Presents, Sealed with our Seals Dated this Thirteenth day of January in the sixteenth year of his Majesty's Reign, Annoque Domminy, 1776. ー

The Conditions of the above obligations are that whereas the Above named Peter Folger and Gilbert Folger is about to Adventure to Sea on a whaleing Voyage the Brig Fox Gilbert Folger Master if then the Sd Gilbert Folger or any other Person who may have the Command of the Sd Brig during the Sd Voyage Shall Carry out no more Provisions than are Nessasary for the Sd Voyage in the Judgment of the Select men of the Town of Sherburn and shall Also well and Truly Bring or Cause to be brought into Some Port or Harbour of this Colony other than the port of Boston or Nantucket, All the oil & whalbone that Shall be Taken by the Said Vessels Crew in the Course of their Voyage and shall within Eighteen months from the date hereof Produce a Certificate from the Select men of the Town adjoining Such Port or harbour that he there Landed the Same, then the Above obligation is to be Void, and of no Effect, otherwise to abide and Remain in Full force and Virtue.

Signd Sealed & Deliered in Presents of us ー
Reuben Folger the 2d Nathan Folger