Know all Men by these Presents That we John Innis Clarke and Joseph Nightingale of Providence in the County of Providence in the State of Rhode Island &c. Merchants are held and firmly bound unto Joseph Clarke Esqr. General Treasurer of the said State in the Sum [of] Three HundredPounds 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 State 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 Twenty Seventh Day of July in the year of Our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy six.

Whereas the said Clarke and Nightingale have obtained Permission from the Honble Nicholas Cooke Esqr. Governor of the said State for Thomas Mumford Esqr. of Groton in the State of Connecticutt to export in their Behalf on board the Sloop Hero Master to the Amount of Five Hundred Dollars in Staves or any other Articles they being intitled to export said Staves &c. in Consequence of Military Stores by them imported into this State in the. Sloop Joseph James Munro Master some time in March last. Now the Condition of this Obligation is such That if the Master of said Sloop shall in all Things during and respecting the said Voyage Conform himself to the Rules and Regulations of the Most Honorable the General Congress of the United States of America then this Obligation shall be void or else in full Force.

Sealed and delivered
in the Presence of
William Brown
John Murray