Appointed Captain in Wythe County Militia

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The Commonwealth of Virginia,

To James T. Gleaves, ........Greeting:

KNOW YOU, that from the special trust and confidence reposed in your fidelity, courage, activity and good conduct, our Governor, on the recommendation of the Court of Wythe county, and in pursuance of the Act , entitled An Act, to amend and reduce into one the several Acts of the General Assembly, for regulating the Militia of this Commonwealth, doth appoint you the said James T. Gleaves, Captain
.....in the thirty-fifth Regiment, nineteenth Brigade and third Division of the [ ] Militia, to rank as such agreeably to the number and date [ ]
In testimony whereof, these our letters are sealed with the [ ] of the Commonwealth and made patent.

Witness, James P. Preston our Governor, at Richmond, this 1st day of April 1819.
James P. Preston
Registered.
W&Teasant