Know all Men by these Presents, that I Benjamin Carpenter, of Boston in New Englnad, Mariner, am held and firmly bound to the President of the Congress of the United States of America, for the time being; in the sum of Two Thousand Pounds Sterling to be paid to the Said President of Congress or his Order, in trust for the Use of the said United States: To which Payment well and truely to be done, I do bind myself, my heirs, Executors, and Administrators, jointly and severally, firmly by these Presnets. Sealed with my Seal. Dated the fourteenth Day of March A.D. One thousand seven hundred and Eighty, and in the fourth year of the Independence of America.
The Condition of this Obligation is such, that if the above bounden, Benjamin Carpenter, who is Captain of the Brigatine Adventure, and Henry Mitchel, Captain of the Ship James, bound from Ireland to America, Shall land the Goods mentioned in their Passports, (a Copy whereof is hereunto annexed) in some Port of the United States, not in Possession of the British Troops, The Danger of the Seas excepted, Then this Obligation shall be void, or else to be and remain in full Force and Virtue.