Know all Men by these Presents that we Caleb Greene of Warwick in the County of Kent in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations Mariner as Principal and Terence Reiley and Nathan Waterman, both of Providence in the County of Providence and State aforesaid Merchants as Surety are held and firmly bound unto Joseph Clarke Esqr. General Treasurer of said State in the Sum of One Thousand Pounds Lawful Money to be paid to the said Joseph Clarke in his said Capacity or to his Successor in said Office for the Use of said State: To which Payment well and truly to be made we bind Ourselves Our Heirs Executors and Administrators and each of us and them for and in the whole jointly and severally firmly by these Presents. Sealed with Our Seals. Dated the Twelfth Day of April in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy-seven.
Whereas the said Caleb Greene who is Master of the Sloop Dolphin is permitted by a Resolve of the Council of War of this State to proceed with said Sloop and her Cargo to the Island of Santa Croix. ー Now the Condition of the above written Obligation is such That if the said Caleb Greene shall proceed to the Island of Santa-Croix and there land his said Cargo and invest the Neat Proceeds in Arms Ammunition and other Warlike Stores, Duck Ticklenbourg Ozenbriggs, Cordage, Woolen Goods Coarse Linnens Paper Medicines and Salt, and shall return therewith to this or some other of the United States, and if th~ Owner or Owners shall upon her return give the Refusal of her Cargo to this State, and further if the Master of said Sloop shall in all Things during and respecting said Voyage comply with the Resolutions of Congress and the Acts of this State respecting Trade, then this Obligation shall be void or else in full Force.
Hy Ward junr William Mumford.
1. Maritime Papers, Bonds, Masters of Vessels, vol. 3, Part 2, R.I. Arch.