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1849 Cayuga County New York Bond of Indemnity Port Byron Machine Shop - This mid-19th-century legal document is a Bond of Indemnity executed in Cayuga County, New York, dated September 11, 1849. The document consists of a pre-printed form with extensive handwritten entries in ink. It identifies H. Harrington, H. Russell, Peter L. Sitter, and Dennison Robinson, all residents of Mentz, New York, as being bound to Archibald Green for the sum of eighteen hundred dollars. The handwritten condition section specifies that the bond is intended to hold Green harmless regarding a nine hundred dollar mortgage executed to Elmore P. Ross on November 23, 1848. This mortgage pertained to a Machine Shop Lot in Port Byron where the firm A. Green and Company conducted business during the previous summer season. The document features three signatures at the lower right: H. Russell, D. Robinson, and D. Sitter. Each signature is accompanied by an applied seal consisting of a red wax base covered by a diamond-shaped white paper wafer. Pencil notations in the upper corners include Cayuga Co., (6.00), and 2 1/2. The reverse side contains handwritten docketing that reads Russell Sitter and Robinson To A Green Bond of Indemnity. 8 x 13 inches.