Jonathan Trumbull, Efquire,

Captain-General and Commander in Chief, of the State of Connecticut in America

To Thomas Hollister *ur Senlleman Greeting

You being, by the governor and council of safety, accepted and appointed to be lieutenant of the sixthy of the alarm lift, in the sixthy Regiment of militia in faid State; repofing fpecial Traft and confidence in your fidelity, courage, and good conduct, I DO, by virtue of the laws of this state, me thereunto enabling, appoint and impower you the faid Thomas Hollister *** to be lieutenant of faid company: You are therefore carefully and diligently to difcharge the duty of a lieutenant in Leading, Ordering, and exercifing the faid company in arms, both inferior officers and soldiers, and to keep them in good order, and fee that they are armed and equipped, according to law, for military service; hereby commanding them to obey you, as their lieutenant and yourfelf to obferve and follow fuch orders and infructions as you fhall from time to time receive from me, or the commander in chief of this state, for the time being, or otheryour fuperior officers, according to the rules and difcipline of war, ordained and eftablished by the laws of the afore-faid, purfuant to the truft hereby repofed in you.

GIVEN under my hand and seal, at arms, at Lebanon the 21^st day of March Anno. Domini, 1777

NOTES ON COPY

All * represent individual letters that were indecipherable

All underlined words were hand written in, all else of type

All misspellings are on original document (i.e. f instead of s)