Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33026, for Josiah Lyman, Massachusetts
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IN CONGRESS

The Delegates of the United Colonies of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts-Bay, Rhode-Island, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, the Counties of New-Castle, Kent, and Sussex in Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina, and Georgia, to Josiah Lyman Esq.

Greetings

WE reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct, and Fidelity, Do by these Present, constitute and appoint you to be Captain of a Company in a Regiment of Foot Whereof Elisha Porter Esq. is Colonel

in the Army of the United Colonies raised for the defence of American Liberty, and for repelling every hostile Invasion thereof.  You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the Duty of A Captain 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 a Captain.  And you are to observe and follow such Orders and Directions from Time to Time, as you shall receive from this or a future Congress of the United Colonies, or Committee of Congress, for that Purpose appointed, or Commander in Chief for the Time being of the Army of the United Colonies, or any other your Superior Officer, according to the Rules and Discipline of War, in Pursuance of the Trust reposed in you.  This Commission to continue in Force until revoked by this or a future Congress.  February fourteenth 1776.

By Order of the Congress,

 John Hancock President

Attest. Charles Thompson Secretary