A penciled notation below the letter indicates it is in the hand of George Wythe.
The endorsement indicates the agreement is directed to the "Virginia Delegates".
This item is part of a collection of autograph letters and documents by the signers of the Constitution of the United States; see collection record (MA 555) for more information.
Being an agreement concerning the export of salt from Virginia to the Committee of Safety with the prohibition against the salt being sent to the "the islands of Great Britain Ireland Jersey Guernsey Sark Alderney and Man or to any or either of them or to the west indian islands...;" being a bond made by "George Meade and Thomas Fitzsimmons of the city of Philadelphia merchants and partners Robert Ritchie of the same city merchant and John Ross of the same city merchant are held and firmly bound unto Richard Henry Lee Thomas Jefferson Benjamin Harrison Thomas Nelson the younger George Wythe Francis Lightfoot Lee and Carter Braxton the delegates of the colony of Virginia in congress in the full and just sum of three thousand and five hundred pounds of current money of Pennsylvania to be paid to the said Richard Henry Lee Thomas Jefferson Benjamin Harrison Thomas Nelson George Wythe Francis Lightfoot Lee and Carter Braxton."