GUARDIAN BOND OF JOHN McCORD

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA )

MECKLENBURG COUNTY )

Know All Men By These Presents, that we, John McCord, are held and firmly bound unto Hutchins G. Burton, Governor of the State of North-Carolina, and his successors in office, in the just and full sum of Four Thousand Dollars, current money of the said state, to be made, we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors and administrators, jointly and severally, firmly by these presents. Sealed with our seals and dated this 27th day of February Anno Domini 1827.

Whereas the above bounden John McCord hath been this day; by the worshipful Court of said county, appointed Guardian to Mary, John, Susan, William, and Charles Means orphans of John Means, deceased:

Now the Condition of the above Obligation is such, that if the said John McCord Guardian as aforesaid, shall well and truly discharge his said guardianship, by taking care of and improving all the estate belonging to the said orphans, and shall also settle his guardianship accounts with the court of said county, as is required by law, and that he will deliver up to the said orphans as aforesaid, when he shall attain lawful age, all such estate as he ought of right to be possessed of, or sooner if required, agreeably to the true intent and meaning of the act of the General Assembly in such case made and provided, then this obligation to be void – otherwise to remain in full force and virtue.

SEALED AND DELIVERED
IN THE PRESENCE OF

Issac S. Alexander

            /s/ John McCord

            /s/ M. M. Bortwicke

            /s/ John H. Blackurn