David Huntington et al, bond, 8 February 1773

Province of New Hampshire

Know all Men by thise Presents that We —
David Huntington, Emerson Foster, John Smith,
Stephen Davis, Thomas Kendall, Elisha Porter,
Samuel Taggart, Dawet Macgregore, James Miltimor, Joseph
M^c Keen, Samuel Stebbins, Nathaniel Adams, Andrew Judson, Sylvester
Gilbert, Elisha Hutchinson, James Hutchinson, David Kellogg,
William May, Eleazar Sweetland, Phinehas Fairbank, Abraham Fowler, Noble
Everit Davenport Phelps, John Ledyard, Stephen March, Joseph
Skinner, Experience Eastabrooks, EleazarEbenezer Mattoon, Members
of Dartmouth College and Ebenezer Johnson, John Brattle, Henry
Williams, Students in [Moor] Charity School, and Aaron Storrs Jr.,
Shopkeeper, in Hanover, in the Province aforesaid are held and
firmly bound to the Honourable Eleazar Wheelock Esquire President
of said College, in ten pounds lawful Money of said Province —
to the whole payment well, and truly to be made, we find our
selves, and everyone of us by himself, for and in the whole, our
Heirs, Executors, and Administrators, and of every of us firmly by
these present, Sealed with our seals, Dated, at Hanover in Said
Province this 8th Day of February in the thirteenth year of His
Majesty's Reign Anno Domini. 1773.

The condition of the above obliga-
tion is such that if Caesar a Negro Man, now residing in the
Kitchen at Dartmouth College who has this day been convicted and
fined for Defamation Shall for the future be of good behavior
and Conduct, then this present obligation to be void and of none Effect
or else to stand and remain in full force and United.