David Huntington et al, bond, 1773 February 8
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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