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In PROVINCIAL CONGRESS for the Colony of New York, the ------ Twenty Seventh Day of October 1775. ------------ To Joshua Brown of Orange County Gentleman --------- Greeting: y Virtue of the Authority reposed in us We do hereby nominate, authorize, con-stitute and appoint you his said Joshua Brown to be first Lietenant -------------------------------------------------------------------------- of the Militia Company of Troop in Orange County, in the Cornwall precinct Regiment, whereof Silas Pierson -- is Captain ------------------------------------------------- hereby requiring you, before you enter in the Exercise of your said Office, to make in Writing, and subscribe in Presence of the Chairman of the Committee of the City, Town, District, or Precinct wherein you reside, the Declaration appointed and directed by the Eleventh Section of the Seventh Resolve contained in the Rules and Orders for regulating the Militia of the Colony of New-York, recommended by this Congress on the 22nd Day of August 1775, and authorizing you fully to execute all the Powers belonging to your said Office, by Virtue of the said Rules and Orders, and the said Declaration: And we do hereby require all Persons under your Command, to pay due Obedience to you, according to the said Rules and Orders, and such further Rules and Orders as shall be made and recommended for the Militia of this Colony, by the present, or any future Continental Congress or Provincial Congress of this Colony. Attest. By Order, Nath John
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