Know all Men by these Presents That we Ambrose Page, Joseph Russell and William Russell all of Providence in the County of Providence in the Colony of Rhode Island &c Merchants, are held and do stand firmly bound unto Joseph Clarke Esqr General Treasurer of the said Colony in the Sum of Six Hundred Pounds lawful Money of the said Colony to be paid 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 this Second Day of February in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy six:

Whereas the said Ambrose Page, Joseph Russell, and William Russell have equipped the Schooner Success burthened about Thirty Tons and navigated with Five Men whereof William Sowle is Master and have obtained Permission of the Honorable Nicholas Cooke Esqr Governor of the said Colony for him the said William Sowle to proceed with the said Schooner and her Cargo to any of the foreign Islands in the West Indies to purchase Powder and other military Stores.

Now therefore the Condition of this Obligation is such that if the said William Sowle shall in all Things during his said Voyage conform himself to the Rules of the Continental Congress, and shall lay out the whole Proceeds of the Cargo on board said Schooner in Powder, Saltpetre Gun Locks, Small Arms Sulphur Duck Ozenbrigs or Ticklenburgh, giving the Preference to Powder Saltpetre and small Arms and import the same into this or some other of the United Colonies, and lodging within Three Days after his Arrive! in this Colony proper Certificates in the Secretary's Office (the Danger of the Seas and Seizure by an Enemy always excepted) then this Obligation to be void or else in full Force

Sealed and delivered
in the Presence of
Cromel Child
Will^m Russell Junr