SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY – BOND: JOHN CARTER, ET AL, 1786

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Page 782

Bond: John Carter et al, Spotsylvania Co, VA (1786)

RE APPOINTMENT OF TOBACCO INSPECTOR

KNOW all men by these presents that we John Carter, Joseph Brock & Robert Smith
are held and firmly bound to P. Henry, Esq. governor of this state for the time 
being and his successors in the sum of ten thousand pounds current money to the
payment of which will and truly to be made, we bind ourselves jointly and 
severally firmly by these presents sealed with our seals and dated this 5th day 
of September 1786.

THE CONDITION of this obligation is such that whereas the above bound John 
Carter, is appointed assistant inspector of tobacco at Fredericksburg Warehouse 
in the County of Spotsylvania by comissioner from under the hand and seal of the 
Govnor of this state. Now if the said John Carter do and shall well and truly 
perform the duties of his said office according to the directions of an Act of 
Assembly for reducing the several acts of assembly for the inspection of tobacco 
into one act then the above obligation to be void else to remain in full force.

                                                   John Carter (seal)

                                                   Joseph Brock (seal)
Sealed and delivered
in presence of:                                    Robert Smith (seal)


                     At a Court held for Spotsylvania Court
                               September 5th 1786

John Carter, Joseph Brock, Robert Smith acknowledged this their bond which
by the Court ordered recorded.
                              Teste

Source: Library of Virginia,
Wills Book E, 1772-1798,
Spotsylvania County, VA,
Reel 28, page 782

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