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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, Esquire, Greeting:
SEAL WE, reposing special Trust and Confidence in your
of North Patriotism, Valor, Conduct and Abilities, do by
Carolina these Presents, constitute and appoint you Captain
of the Militia of the County of Buncombe.
You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the Duty of Captain by exercising and well disciplining the Officers 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, and 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 24th, day of March Anno Domini 1807.
By the Governor,
J.W. Guion, Natl. Alexander
P. Secty.
Note: I refer the reader to the bottom of the previous page for an explanation of the reasons for holding this Commission. Why this Commission was supplanted by the one of October, I do not know, unless it be this one was given for a very limited time, and upon its expiration, the other was issued. To what extent either of these commissions were utilized by the said of Thomas D. Love, there is no evidence either or record, or traditionally. It was not doubt given to him, in order that there might be some one in the country, who in case of the outbreak of the Indians, could act with authority and at once; or too, who, in case of civil disorder, could command under authority, men to quell it, as it was about that time, the country was over-run with outlaws and men of desperate characters, and who were depredating upon the peaceful inhabitants, and stealing their stock, etc. and making way with it.
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