Know all Men by these Presents, That I Walter Belt, of Prince Georges County in Maryland, 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 Three 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 Presents, Sealed with my Seal, dated the 11th Day of Feby. 1780.

The Condition of this Obligation is such, that if the above bounden Walter Belt, who with Capt. Aron Sheffield and others, are Owners of the Brigantine Brighton of about one hundred Tons, bound from London to America, with a Cargo of coarse Woolens, Linnens and other Clothing, shall land the Goods mentioned, in their Passports (a Copy whereof is hereunto annex’d) in some Port of the United States, not in Possession of the British Troops, the Dangers of the Seas excepted. Then this Obligation shall be void, or else to be, and remain in full force and virtue.