David Huntington et al, bond, 1773 February 8

Author Huntington, David

Date8 February, 1773

ms number7731581-1

abstractDavid Huntington and others go bond for the enslaved person Caesar's good behavior in the future. Signed by many of the members of the School and College, and by many townspeople. 1773 Feb 8. Hanover.

Province of New Hampſhire
Know all Men by Here Present that We — David Huntington, Emerſon Foster, John Smith, Stephen Davis, Thomas Kendall, Elisha Porter, Samuel Taggart, David Macgregore, James Miltimor, Joseph McKeen, Samuel Stebbins, Nath.l Adams, Andrew Judſon, Sylves Gilbert, Elisha Hutchinſon, James Hutchinson, David Kellogg, ^William May^, Eleazer Sweetland, Phinehas Fairbank, Abraham Fowler, Noble ^Everit^ Davenport Phelps, John Ledyard, Stephen March, Joseph Skinner, Experience Eastabrooks, Eleazar Mattoon, Members of Dartm.o College and Ebenezer Johnſon, John Brattle, Henry Williams, Students in Mores Charity School, & Aaron Storrs Jr., Shopkeeper, in Hanover, in the Province aforesaid are held & firmly bound to the Honble Eleazer Wheelock Esq.r President of said College, in ten pounds lawful Money of said Province — to the whole Judgment well, & truly to be made, We find our selves, and everyone of us by himself, for and in the Heirs, Executors, & Adminiſtrators, and of every of us firmly by these present, Sealed with our Seals, Dated, at Hanover in Said Province this 8th Day of Februy in the thirteenth year of His Majesty's Reign Annoy. Domini. 1773.
The condition of the above obliga- tion is such that if Caesar a Negro Man, now residing in the Kitchen at Dartm.o College who has this day been convicted & fined for Defamation Shall for the future be of good behavior & Conduct, then this present obligation to be void & of none Effect or else to stand and remain in full force and United.
David Huntington Emerson Foster John Smith Stephen Davis Thomas Ken^d^all Eliſha Porter Eleazer Sweetland
David Macgregor James Miltimor Samuel Taggart Joseph McKeen Samuel Stebbins Aaron Storrs Jr Andrew Judſon Silv.r Gilbert Joseph Skinner Experience Eſtabrook Eliſha Hutchinſon Noble Everit Nathaniel Adams David Kellogg Phinehas Fairbank William May James Hutchinſon John Ledyard John Brattle Ebenezer Johnſon Solomon Wabert Henry Williams Davenport Phelps Abraham Fowler Ebenezer Matteson
Caeſar Negro's Caſe Sentence and Bond. Feby 8. 1773
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