Militia Commission.

• imprint_number: 1775.025
• title: The Committee of Safety for the Colony of Virginia to [blank] ...We...appoint you to be Lieutenant and Commander in Chief of the militia of the County of [blank] ...
• sequence_number: 25
• year: 1775
• place_issued: Williamsburg
• issuing_press: Alexander Purdie
• author: Virginia. Committee of Safety.
• notes: Printed commission form with blank fields; sole extant copy (Draper Collection at Historical Society of Wisconsin) is completed in the name of Col. William Preston of Fincastle County, then a key militia leader on the colony's western frontier; that form is dated "Williamsburg, October 7, 1775" and signed by the members of the Committee of Safety.
  Form lacks printer credit; Alexander Purdie was printer to the convention that established the Committee of Safety the preceding July, so also the most likely producer of this form.
  
  
• Related Bios:
  • Alexander Purdie, Sr.

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