SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY – ESTATE: JOHN DILLARD, 1774

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Estate: John Dillard, Spotsylvania Co, VA (1774)

KNOW ALL MEN by these presents that we, John Dillard, George Sheppard & Thomas 
Dillard are held and firmly bound to Fielding Sorris, Charles Dick, Edward 
Ferndon & Charles Yates, gentlemen Justices of the Court of Spotsylvania County 
now sitting, in the sum of five hundred pounds to the payment whereof will and 
truly to be made to the said Justices and their successors, we bind ourselves 
and each of us, our and each of our heirs, Executors and Administrators jointly 
and severally firmly by these presents.  Sealed with our seals the fifteenth day 
of December Anno Domini one thousand seven hundred and seventy four and in the 
Fifteenth Year of the Reign of our sovereign Lord King George III.

THE CONDITION of the above obligation is such that if the above bound John 
Dillard, his Executors, and Administrators shall, will and truly pay and deliver 
cause to be paid and deliver unto Fielding Dillard, orphan of Thomas Dillard, 
deceased, all such estate or estates as now is, or are or hereafter shall appear 
to be due to the said orphan when, and as soon as he shall attain to lawfull age 
as then thereto required by the said Justices of the said County Court as also 
keep harmless the above named Justices there and every of their heirs, Executors 
and Administrators from all trouble and damages that shall or may arise about 
the said estate then the above obligation to be void otherwise to remain in full 
force.

Sealed & delivered                                    John Dillard (seal)
in the presence of:                                   George Sheppard (seal)
                                                      Thomas Dillard (seal)

                   At a Court Held for the County of Spotsylvania
                               December the Fifteenth 1774

John Dillard, George Sheppard, Thomas Dillard, acknowledge this their bond in 
court which is ordered to be recorded.
                                                        Teste.

Source: Library of Virginia,
Spotsylvania Co, VA
Will Book E
1772-1798
Reel 28, page: 96-97 

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