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Know all men by these Presents, that we Joseph Wallingsford, John Stevenson and James Johnson of Washington County, District of Columbia are held and firmly bound unto Sarah Ann Allen in the just and full sum of twenty four hundred Dollars current money, to be paid to the said Sarah Anne Allen her executors administrators or assigns; to which payment will and truly to be made and done, 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 and dated this eleventh day of June, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty five.

Whereas lately at a Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Columbia, sitting for the County of Washington, in a suite depending in the said Circuit Court, wherein the said Sarah Ann Allen for herself and children Eliza Jane, Julia Maria & John Davy, were Petitioners, and Joseph Wallingsford was Defendant, Judgment was rendered against the said Joseph Wallingsford, and he having obtained a Writ of Error and filed a copy thereof in the Clerk's Office of the said Circuit Court, to reverse the Judgment in the aforesaid suit, and a citation to the said Sarah Ann Allen, for herself and children citing her to be and appear at a Supreme Court of the United States to be held in the first Monday of August next.

Now the condition of the above obligation is such, that if the said Joseph Wallingsford shall prosecute said writ to effect and answer all damages and costs if he fails to make good   his plea, then the above obligation to be said, else to remain in full force and virtue.

Signed, sealed & delivered in presence of

Joseph Wallingsford (seal)
John Stevenson (seal)
James Johnson (seal)

Test James Lynch

Approved
W. Cranch.