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Bond from Miles Harvey for performance as clerk of the Perquimans County Court
Campbell, John, ca. 1700-1781; Harvey, Miles, 1728-1776
April 24, 1755
Volume 05, Pages 338-339

[From MSS. Records in Office of Secretary of State.]

Know all men by these presents that We Miles Harvey and John Campbell County in the Province of North Carolina are held and firmly bound unto Henry M'Collock Esqr Secretary and Clerk of the Crown in the full and just Sum of Four hundred Pounds procklemation money to be paid unto the Saide Henry M'Cullock his Heirs Exrs Administrators and Assigns To the which Payment well and truly to be made We bind our Selves our Heirs Exers and Administrators Jointly and Severally firmly by these Preasents Seal'd with Our Seales Dated this Twelfth day of April Anno Domni: 1755.

The Condition of this Obligation is Such that whereas the above Bounden Miles Harvey haveing Received from me a Commission for Clerk of the Court of Perquimans County in the Saide Province and Clerk of the Peace within the Same Now if the above Bound Miles Harvey Shall well and truly preform the Duty of his Saide Ofice and pay the governor his Secretary and the Said Secretary of the Province their

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Respective fees as they Become Due every Six Months then this Obligation to be Void Otherwise to remaine in full force and Virtue.

MILES HARVEY (Seal)
JNo CAMPBELL (Seal)
Sign'd Seal'd and Deliver'd in the presence of
Jasper Charlton

The Recd of Henry McCullock Secry three Blank letters of Adminn and testamentry and three Blank Bonds which I am to be Accountable for

MILES HARVEY

April the 24th 1755