Know all Men by these Presents that We Timothy Persons of Pownalborough in the County of Lincoln, and State of Massachusetts Bay Gentleman, and
stand firmly bound and obliged to Henry Gardiner Esqr Treasurer of the State aforesaid, in the sum of Ten Thousand pounds to be paid the said Treasurer or his Successors in said Office; to the which payment well & truely to be made, We bind ourselves, our Heirs, Executors and Administrators Jointly and severally and firmly by these presents. In Testimony whereof we have hereunto sett our Hands & Seals, this Twentyfourth Day of September Anno Domini 1776.
The Condition of the foregoing Obligation is such that whereas the said Timothy Persons Esqr is appointed Agent for the Eastern District for all Captures made by any Vessel or otherways in which this State is anyway interested or concerned whose Authority as Agent shall be limited to and Confined within the Limits of the aforesaid District for holding the Court of Captures as set forth by an Act of this State for the trying & Condemning of all Vessels as aforesaid ー If therefore the said Timothy Persons shall in all things observe and conduct himself according to the Orders & Directions given him respecting his Office as Agent as aforesaid, and shall duly Account when thereto legally required for all Moneys and Effects by him received in Virtue of his appointment as aforesaid, Then the above obligation to be Void, otherways to abide & remain in full force & Virtue.
1. Mass. Arch., vol. 165, 272.
