Greene County NcArchives Photo Document.....William Dixon Promotion 1834
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North Carolina Archives
Mrs. Arch J. Flanagan Papers
Personal Collection PC.1315.1

The State of North Carolina
To William Dixon Greeting:
We, reposing special trust and confidence in your patriotism, valor and 
military skill, do hereby appoint you a Major of Cavalry in the 2d. Brigade 
of this State you having been thereunto elected by joint ballot of both 
Houses of our General Assembly. And (after taking such oaths as are 
necessary for your qualification) do invest you with the authority and 
command belonging to said office, that you may promptly and diligently 
perform the duties thereof, as prescribed by law: In the discharge of which, 
all Officers and Soldiers under your command are required to yield to you 
their ready obedience.
In Testimony whereof, I, David L. Swain, Governor, &c. have caused the Great 
Seal of the State to be hererunto affixed, and signed the same at the City 
of Raleigh, on the 30th day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand 
eight hundred and thirty-four and of the Independence of the United States 
the 59th.
By the Governor, D. L. Swain
W. R Hill Private Secretary


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