George Mason & Alexander Moore v. Matilda Derrick. Bond
Know all men by these presents That we George Mason, Alexander Moore & Benjamin Lear are held and firmly bound unto Matilda Derrick for herself and her children Lucy Matilda & Louisa infants &c on a petition for freedom in the full and just sum of two hundred dollars to be paid to the said Matilda Derrick certain attorney, executors, administrators or assigns to which payment well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves our heirs, executors and administrators, jointly and severally by these presents, sealed with[?] our seals and dated this third day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty three.
Whereas lately at a circuit court of the United States for the District of Columbia in the County of Washington in a suit depending on said Circuit Court. Wherein the said Matilda Derrick for herself and her children Lucy, Matilda and Louisa infants &c Petitioners on a petition for freedom and the said George Mason and Alexander Moore were defendants Judgment was rendered against the said George Mason and Alexander Moore.
And the said George Mason and Alexander
Moore 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 directed to the said
Matilda Derrick and her children Lucy Matilda
& Louisa citing and admonishing them to be and
appear at a Supreme Court of the United States
to be holden at Washington, on the first Monday
of February next.
Now the Condition of the above obligation is such; That if the said George Mason and Alexander Moore shall prosecute their Writ to affect[?] and Answer all damages and costs, if they fail to make this plea good, then the above obligation to be void else to remain in full force and virtue.
G Mason (seal)
B. L. Lear (seal)
Signed Sealed and delivered
in presence of
E. B. Caldwell
Approved
J. S. Morsell
3 Decr 1823.
True Copy
Test Wm Brent Clk
