Know all Men by these Presents That we Thomas Green[e] of Providence in the County of Providence & Colony of Rhode Island &c. Merchant and Leonard Jarvis of Dartmouth in the County of Bristol and Province of the Massachusetts Bay Merchant are held and firmly bound unto Joseph Clarke Esqr. General Treasurer of the Colony aforesaid in the Sum of Twelve Hundred Pounds Lawful Money to be paid to the said Joseph Clarke in his said Capacity or to his Successors in said Office for the Use of the said Colony, to which Payment well and truly to be made we bind Ourselves our Heirs Executors and Administrators firmly by these Presents. Sealed with our Seals. Dated the Seventeenth Day of January in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Six.

Whereas Joseph Rotch Master of the Sloop Delight burthen'd about Eighty Tons is bound by Permission of the Honble Nicholas Cooke Esqr. Governor of the said Colony on a Voyage with his said Sloop with her Cargo consisting of Two Thousand Bushells of Barley and one Hundred Barrels of Oil to Philadelphia in the Province of Pensylvania. Now the Condition of the above Obligation is such That if the said Joseph Rotch shall proceed with his said Sloop to Philadelphia and there land his said Cargo & take on board the Produce of the Country or other Articles under the Direction of the Committee of Inspection of the City Town or County where he shall lade and take in his said Cargo and also bring back proper Certificates both of Exports and Imports from them, and lodge the same in the Office of the Secretary of the said Colony within three Days after the Return of said Sloop, and further shall not proceed to any Port or Place not being within the United Colonies (the Danger of the Sea and Seizure by an Enemy always excepted) then this Obligation to be void or else to be and remain in full Force.

Sealed and Deliver'd in the Presence of
John G. Wanton William Mumford.