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severally promise to pay unto our Honoured Mother Elizabeth Maltby the sum of Twenty pounds lawfull Money within one year from the decease of our Honoured Father, Capt Benjamin Maltby, in case she survives him, and we do by those present bind ourselves and our heirs jointly and severally to pay our equal proportion of sd. sum of Twenty pounds lawfull Money as above expressed whenever it shall take place, and thereafter we promise as aforesaid to pay unto her the sd. Elizabeth Maltby the sd. sum of Twenty pounds lawfull money to be annually after the decease of sd. Benjamin Maltby, to be paid jointly during the Natural life of our Honoured Mother to the which payment will and faithfully to be made and performed we have hereunto set our hands and seals dated Branford. 20 day of Febru'y, 1792
In Presents of Benjamin Maltby, Seal (X)
Jonah Clark Jonathan Maltby, Seal (X)
Hannah Clark. Isaac Maltby, Seal (X)
Stephen Maltby, Seal (X)
(Endorsements on back of Bond)
El. - Maltby."Northfield May 11, 1799. Received five pounds, eleven shillings and eight pence on this bond of Isaac Maltby.
(Copy. From Mrs. Frederick E. Foster 218 Tremont Avenue Mount Vernon, N.Y.(Note. Mrs. Foster was a grand-daughter of General Isaac Maltby and the above were his receipts. Undoubtedly the other three sons owned similar documents).