Mecklenburg County NcArchives Military Records.....Davie, Lt. William R. 1779
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Colonial Records of North Carolina
Commission to appoint William Richardson Davie as Lieutenant
Caswell, Richard, 1729-1789
April 05, 1779 
Volume 14, Page 291

COMMISSION TO LIEUT. WILLIAM R. DAVIE.

State of North Carolina.

To William R. Davie,

Greeting:
We, reposing special Trust and Confidence in your Valour, Conduct and 
Fidelity, do by these presents constitute and appoint you to be Lieut. of a 
Company of Horse in the District of Salisbury.

You are, therefore, carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of 
Lieutenant by doing and performing all manner of things thereunto belonging, 
and we do strictly charge and require all officers and Soldiers under your 
Command to be obedient to your Orders as Lieut. And you are to observe and 
follow such Orders and Directions from Time to Time as you shall receive from 
your superior officers, according to the rules and Discipline of War, and the 
Laws of the State.

Witness Richard Caswell, Esquire, Governor, Captain General, and Commander-in-
Chief, in and over the said State, under his hand and the Great Seal of the 
State at Charlotte the 5th day of April, Anno Dom. 1779, and in the third year 
of our Independence.

By his Excellency's command,
R. Bignall, pro. Sect'y.

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