John G. Nichols
                            deceased
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  Know All Men By These Presents,
That I, Clarence V. Burrage of Warpole in
the County of Norfolk in the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts, am holden and firmly bound and obliged 
unto Robert Grant Esquire, First Judge of the 
Probate Court in and for the County of Suffock, in 
      and just
the full^sum of four hundred thousand dollars, 
to be paid to said Judge and his successors in said
office; to the true payment whereof I bind myself 
and my heirs, executors and administrators, by these presents, 
Sealed with my seal and dated the twenty-second 
day of January in the year of our Lord one thous
and nine hundred and fourteen.
  The Condition of This Obligation is such, that if the 
above bounden Clarence V. Burrage executor of the 
last will and testament of John G. Nichols late of 
Gainesville deceased, testate, shall
First, make and return to said Probate Court
within three months after his appointment, a 
true inventory of all the real and personal estate 
of said deceased which at the time of the making
of such inventory shall have come to the poss-
ession or knowledge of said executor;
Second, administer according to law and to the
will of said deceased all the personal estate of said
deceased which may come to the possession 
of said executor, or any person for him, and also 
the proceeds of any of the real estate of said deceased 
that may be sold or mortgaged by said executor; 
and Third render upon oath, a true account of 
his administration at least once a year, until 
his trust is fulfilled, unless he is excused 
therefrom in any year by said Court, and also 
                          other
render such account at such^other times as said Court 
may order;