Colonial Massachusetts Interesting 1730 Document Thomas Danforth Handwritten

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Colonial Massachusetts
Massachusetts Bay Blacksmith Interesting 1730 Document
THOMAS DANFORTH, Manuscript Document Signed, Bond, to George Cornell, June 8, 1730, Massachusetts Bay. 1 p., 8.25" x 13" Some tears at folds, and some loss on edges.
In this bond, Thomas Danforth promises to pay double if he does not pay his debt to George Cornell of £27.5 within four years of June 8, 1730.
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Know all men by these that I Thomas Danforth of tanton in the Countey of Bristol in the Province of Massachusets bay in New England Brasure am holden & firmly do Stand bound and Obliged unto George Cornell of Portsmouth in the Countey of Newport in the Collony of Rhodeisland &c yeoman in the full and Just sum of fiftey four Pounds and ten Shillings in good Currant Money of New England to be Paid to the said George Cornell his Certain Atturney Executors administrators or assign to the Which said Payment Well and truley to be made I the said Thomas Danforth do hereby bind and Oblige my self my heirs Executors and administrators firmley and securely by these Presents sealed with my seale dated the Eight day of ye forth month Called June 1730, and In the third yeare of his majes Reign George the Second King over Great Brittain &c Anno of Domini 1730
The Condition of the above Written Obligation is such that if the above Bounded Thomas Danforth or his heirs Executors administrators or assigns do pay or cause to be paid unto George Cornell or his heirs Executors administrators or assigns the full and Just sum of twentey seven Pounds and five shillings in good passable bills of the above said Province with lawfull in trest for the same in four yeares time after the above said date then the above Written Obligation to be nul and void and of none Effect other wise to stand and in full proven force and vertue in the law.
Thomas Danforth
Signed sealed and Delivered in the Presents of us
Ichabod Bryant
Benjn Shors
[Endorsement:
Colony of Rhode Island &c
Benjamin Shors one of the witnesses to the within written bond Personally appeared in Portsmouth in the Colony aforesd on the 27th day of June Anno Domini 1730 before me the subscriber and upon his solemn Engagement Testifieth and saith that he saw the within named Thomas Danforth sign and seal the within written bond on the day of the date thereof and deliver the same as his act & Deed and that Ichabod Bryant set his hand thereto at the same time also as witness with him the said Benjamin Shors.
Portsmouth [? Taken ye 27th June 1730 before me
Wm Sanford Justice Pe
Thomas Danforth (1703-1786) was born in Taunton, the ninth of twenty children born to Rev. Samuel Danford (Harvard College, 1683) and Hannah Allen. Thomas Danforth was a blacksmith making anchors in Taunton in southern Massachusetts, approximately twenty-two miles northeast of Portsmouth, Rhode Island. In 1733, he moved to Norwich, Connecticut.
George Cornell (1676-1752) was born in Newport, Rhode Island, into a Quaker family. His father bequeathed him two large parcels of land in Portsmouth by the time George Cornell was twenty. He served as one of the assistants to the Rhode Island colonial governor from 1710 to 1714, in 1716, and again from 1722 to 1739. He married three times and fathered sixteen children. By his second wife, he had a son named George Cornell (b. 1705 in Portsmouth), so this creditor could be the father or the son.
William Sanford (1676-1760) served as town clerk of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, from 1717 to 1751 and was a justice of the peace from 1718 to 1750. He was a Quaker, and in 1751, he and his wife moved to Dartmouth, Massachusetts, where their son William had lived for twenty years.