John Nuckolls owes David Wampler $117.98 from a court action with legal costs of $58.99.

$117.98

Know all men by these presents that we John Nuckolls and William Thornburgh are held and firmly bound unto David Wampler in the penal and full sum of one hundred and seventeen dollars and 98 cents to be paid unto the said David Wampler or his certain attorney his executors, administrators or assigns: to which payment well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves jointly and severally, and each of our joint and several heirs, executors and administrators, firmly by these precents.  Sealed with our seals and dated this 5^th day of September one thousand eight hundred and twenty six.

THE CONDITION of the above obligation is such, that whereas David Wampler hath sued out of the County Court of Wythe, a writ of Fieri Facias against the goods and chattels of the above bound John Nuckolls which writ, with the legal costs at tending the same amounts to the sum of fifty eight dollars and 99 cents – And whereas Henry Hoppess, Jr. deputy for James Davis, High Sheriff of the said County of Wythe, by virtue of the said writ to the said Sheriff directed, hath taken the following property belonging to the said John Nuckolls to satisfy the same; to wit: one negro boy named Absolem and the said John Nuckolls being desirous of keeping the said property in his possession until the day of the sale of the same, hath tendered the above bound William Thornburgh as security for the forthcoming and delivery of the same on the day and at the place of the sale, agreeably to an Act of Assembly in that case made and provided:  Now if the above bound John Nuckolls and William Thornburgh or either of them shall and do well and truly deliver the aforesaid property to the said Sheriff or either of his deputies at Wythe Courthouse on the second Tuesday of October next that being the time and place appointed for the sale of the same, then the above obligation to be void.  else to remain in full force and virtue.

Signed sealed and delivered in presence of}                             John Nuckolls (seal)

Henry Hoppess Jr.                                                                 Wm Thornburgh (seal)

September the 23^rd 1826 Received from John Nuckolls by the hands of James T. Gleaves forty eight dollars and seventy six cents the amount of this bond exclusive of the cost which James Gleaves is to pay amounting to $10.81 cts.

David Wampler

48.76
10.81
59.57

On Side:

       (B)

David Wampler
Is FC Bond
John Nuckolls

 7.41 
 2.77
   .63
10.81

59.57
10.81
48.76

 56.17
  2.77
    .63
$59.57

55.59
   .18
55.77
    40
56.17

  58.99
        3
186.97