Know all men by these presents that we B.F. Wilson & Thos. Flowers & Wm P. Ward(?) are held and firmly bound unto the State of Tennessee in the sum of Five Thousand Dollars which will & ______ to be made we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors & administrators witness our hands & seal this 4 day of April 1859.

The condition of this obligations is such that B.F. Wilson has this day had bound to him by the county court of Gibson county, John Warren until he arrives at the age of 30 years and said Wilson binds himself to give said boy, when he shall arrive at the said age in addition to the requirements of the Statutes, a horse, bridle and saddle with One Hundred Twenty-Five Dollars. It guard (?) and protect his morals, otherwise this Bond to remained in full force & (Virtue---I think)

B.F. Wilson