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Access Genealogy Library: Some Data, Letters, and Memoranda Collected by FRANKLIN D. LOVE, Relating to the LOVE FAMILY, by Dennis N. Partridge, Volume I, first series.
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S T A T E O F N O R T H C A R O L I N A.
To Thomas Love, Jun., Esquire Greeting:
WE, reposing special Trust and Confidence in your
SEAL OF Patriotism, Valor, Conduct and Abilities, do by
NORTH CAROLINA these Presents, constitute and appoint you Captain
3rd, Regiment of the Militia in Buncombe County.
You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of Captain by excising and well disciplining to discharge the Offices and Soldiers under your Command, and by doing and performing all manner of Things thereunto belonging. And we do strictly charge and require all Offices and Soldiers under your Command, to be obedient to your Orders as Captain.
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 Directions of Military discipline, and the Laws of the State.
Witness, NATHANIEL ALEXANDER, Esquire, our Governor, Captain-General, and Commander in Chief, in and over the said State, under his Hand and our Great Seal, which he hath caused to be hereunto affixed, at Raleigh, the 2nd, day of October, Anno Domini 1807.
By the Governor,
J.W. Guion, Natl. Alexander.
P. Secty.
Note: It will be noticed that Thomas D. Love held two military commissions; one for Ensign, and the other for Captain. The reason for this will be understood when it is known that the country in which lived was considered at that time as territory of both North Carolina and Tennessee, and the law then enforced in that section was in conflict of the authority of Tennessee and North Carolina, and holding the commissions from two States, he could act with the authority of one or the other, or both, at the same time, and thereby make his power complete. He accepted these commissions at the instance of the inhabitants of the section in which he lived, who had him appointed. I give below, another Commission from the same Governor, and which ante-dates the one above set cut. There is no evidence that he ever took the oath of Office for these Commissions given from the Governor of North Carolina, as the same is not endorsed on the back of the Commissions, which are before me, and which are in an excellent state of preservation. He may, have done so, however, and as all oaths are not required to be reduced to writing, and this may have been the mode required under North Carolina.-F.D. Love
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