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Pair of military commissions dated 1831 & 1832ARCHIBALD WHEELER OF NEW SALEM MASSACHUSETTS
PROMOTED TO LIEUTENANT AND THEN CAPTAINLIGHT INFANTRY, THIRD REGIMENT, SECOND BRIGADE, FOURTH DIVISIONMASSACHUSETTS MILITIABoldly signed with a flourish by LEVI LINCOLN, GOVERNORboth with handsome paper embossed state seals affixed above signature
LEVI LINCOLN , (1807-1847), served as Governor of Massachusetts , 1825-1834; In U.S. Congress , 1834-1851; First Mayor of Worcester, MA after it became a city, 1848-1849.Also signed by Edward D. Bangs, (1790-1838), as Secretary of the Commonwealth.Signed on the reverse by WILSON ANDREWS, LT. COL. and CEPHAS LAWRENCE , COL.Measures approx. 9 1/2 X 15 1/2. Expected fold splits at the edges, neatly repaired from behind with archival document tape.
in very good overall condition otherwisea welcome addition to a collection
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