Samuel Myers
Commission as Colonel
17 June 1823

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IN THE NAME AND BY THE AUTHORITY OF THE STATE OF OHIO.  JEREMIAH MORROW, Governor and Commander in Chief of said State.

TO Samuel Myers Esq GREETING:

IT appearing to me, that you are duly elected Colonel of the Second Regiment in the Second Brigade, and Eighth Division in the Militia of this State:

NOW KNOW YOU That by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution and laws of said state; and reposing special trust and confidence in your courage, activity, fidelity and good conduct; I do, by these presents, commission you as Colonel of said Regt. hereby authorizing and requiring you to discharge all and singular the duties and services appertaining to your said office, agreeably to law, and such instructions as you shall from time to time receive from your superior officers.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my name, and caused the GREAT SEAL of the State of Ohio to be affixed at Columbus the seventeenth day of June in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three and in the forty-seventh year of the Independence of the United States of America.

BY THE GOVERNOR, Jeremiah McLene Secretary of State.

Jeremiah Morrow

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State of Ohio Fayette County

Personally appeared before me the Subscriber the within named Samuel Myers and took the oath to support the the Constitution of the United States & the Constitution of the State of Ohio and also the oath of office -

Given under my hand this 18th day of June 1823

Batteal Harrison

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Sam Myers Col.

2 R.  2 B.  8 Division

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