WILLIAM STOUGHTON Eq.
Lieutenant Governor & Commander in Chief,
in and over His Majesties Province of the
Massachusetts-Bay in New-England.

To J. N. WARE, GENT. Greeting.

By Virtue of the Power and Authority in and by His Majesties Royal Commission to me Granted, Reposing special Trust and Confidence in your Loyalty, Courage and good Conduct : I do by these presents constitute and appoint you to be Lieutenant of the Foot Company of Militia in the Town of Wentham in the County of Berkshire.

You are therefore carefully and diligently to perform the duty of a Lieutenant, by Leading Ordering and Exercising the said Company in Arms, both Inferior Officers and Souldiers, Keeping them in good Order and Discipline, Commanding them to obey you as their Lieutenant. And your self to observe & follow such Orders & Directions as you shall receive from your Colonel, or other your Superior Officers, according to the Rules and Discipline of War, purfuant to the Trust and Office of a Lieutenant. Given under my Hand and Seal at Arms at Boston, the Twelfth day of August, 1696. And in the Eighteenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord WILLIAM the Third, by the Grace of GOD, of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, KING, Defender of the Faith, &c.

By Command of the Lieutenant Governor, &c.