SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY – BOND: NICHOLAS PAYNE-OLIVER TOWLES, 1786

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Page 797

Bond: Nicholas Payne-Oliver Towles, Spotsylvania Co, VA (1786)

RE APPOINTMENT OF GOVERNOR

KNOW all men by these presents that we Nicholas Payne and Oliver Towles are held 
and firmly bound unto Edward Randolph Esq. Governor of this state and to his 
successors in the sum of five hundred pounds current money to the payment 
whereof well and truly to be made we bind ourselves, our heirs, Executors 
jointly and severally firmly by these presents sealed this 5th day of December 
1786.

THE CONDITION of the above obligation is such that whereas the above bound 
Nicholas Payne is appointed Governor of this County by Commission from under the 
hand of the Governor and seal of the Commonwealth bearing date the day of (one 
inch blank space here) 178  .  Now if the said Nicholas Payne do and shall will 
and truly execute his said office according to law, then the above obligation to 
be void else to remain in full force and virtue.
                                                  Nicholas Payne  (seal)

                                                  Oliver Towles (seal)
Sealed and delivered
in presence of:


At a Court held for Spotsylvania County
December 5th 1786

Nicholas Payne & O. Towles acknowledged this their bond which is ordered to be
recorded.
              Teste

Source: Library of Virginia,
Wills Book E, 1772-1798,
Spotsylvania County, VA,
Reel 28, page 797

Note: Spelling is as shown on original.  Paragraphing added by transcriber for 
ease in reading.  There are no paragraphs in the original.

Note:  It appears that this was somewhat of a form letter and the day and year 
were to be filled in at time of signing, and someone forgot to fill them in.