Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 20. 283, Thomas Ballard, S.C.

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The State of South Carolina
To Thomas Ballard Esquire
WE, reposing special Trust and Confidence in your courage and Good Conduct, in your
Fidelity and Attachment to of United States of America, have Commissioned and Appointed you,
and by these Presents do Commission and Appoint you, the said Thomas Ballard
Lieutenant Colonel of the Thirty fifth Regiment of the Militia which said
Regiment you are to Lead, Train, Muster and Exercise, according to Military
Discipline. And you are to allow and observe all such Orders and Instructions as you shall, from
time to time, receive from the governor, the Commander in Chief, for the time being, or any of your
Superior Officers, according to of Rules and Discipline of War, pursuant to the Laws of this State,
and of the United States. And all Inferior Officers and others, belonging to the said Regiment
are hereby required and commanded to obey you as their Lieutenant Colonel
This Commission to continue during Pleasure.
Given under the Seal of the State.
Witness, HIs Excellency, James B Richardson Governor and Commander
in Chief of the said Lot, this Twenty Ninth Day of November in the year
eight hundred and four and in the Twenty ninth year of the Independence
of the United States of America.
[Printed by W. P. Young.]
[Paper seal]
James B. Richardson [signature]
Secretary's Office
Certified by 
Daniel Hieger
Secretary of State.