Bond: Joseph Kirkbride et al to Arthur Cooke et al, 1687: Bucks County

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            Bucks Co., PA, Deed Book B-1, pp. 91-2.

    Bond: Joseph Kirkbride et al to Arthur Cooke et al, 1687

	Know all men by these Presents that we Joseph Kirkbride of the
County of Bucks and Province of Pennsylvania Carpenter and Robert
Lucas of the said County and Province Yeoman are firmly bound unto
Arthur Cooke Thomas Janney William Yardley and Nicholas Wallin
Justices of the Peace for the said County of Bucks in the penal sum
of twenty four pounds lawful pay of this Province to be paid to the
said Arthur Cooke Thomas Janney William Yardley and Nicholas Wallin
their executors administrators assigns or successors to their lawful
Attorney to the which payment will and truly to be made and done we
bind ourselves our executors and administrators firmly by these
presents.  Sealed with our seals the fourteenth day of the tenth
month 1687 being the third year of King James the Second his reign
and seventh year of the Proprietarys Government.

	The Condition of this obligation is such that whereas the above
bounded Joseph Kirkbride on the day of the date above mentioned hath
in his hands possession and custody of twelve pounds current money of
this Province being Orphanage money appertaining unto Henry Comly son
and orphan to Henry Comley late of the said County of Bucks Yeoman
deceased as may more at alrge appear by the records of the Orphans
Court of the aforesaid County if therefore the said Joseph Kirkbride
and Robert Lucas their heirs executors or administraotrs or any of
htem do well and truly pay or cause to be contented satisfied and
paid the said sum of twelve pounds with lawful interest for the same
at or before the thirteenth day of the order and appointment of the
Orphans Court of the aforesaid County of Bucks that then this
obligation to be void and of none effect else the same to stand
remain and be in full force and virtue.
					Joseph the mark of  ( Kirkbride	Robert Lucas

	Sealed and Delivered in the presence of us William Biles Phineas
Pemberton.

	20th 11th month Recorded p Phineas Pemberton Bucks Co., PA, Deed
Book B-1, pp. 91-2.