Federal & State Surety Bonds, 1757-1830, eight items, earliest is a handwritten Bond (Conn.) promising to pay excise tax as a retailer of distilled spiritous liquor (one of the earliest tax paids), four partly printed Federal Duty Bonds, two 1830 N.Y. Bonds (a Grocer's Bond - seeking a license to sell liquors and wines and a Tavern-Keeper's Bond), lastly an 1825 N.Y.C. document charging person with selling liquor (at retail) without a license, some have faults, otherwise fine-very fine lot