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By His Excellency, Lieutenant General The Earl of Burlington, Commander-in-Chief, British Armies in America
To <font color="yellow"><b>Anton Kosyanenko</b></font id="yellow">, Ensign in the Glengarry Light Infantry Regiment
Reposing full confidence in your loyalty, courage and good conduct, I do hereby constitute and appoint you, during pleasure, to be <b><font color="yellow">Lieutenant</font id="yellow"></b> in the Glengarry Light Infantry Regiment, taking rank and precedence from the present day. You are, therefore, carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of lieutenant by exercising and well disciplining the inferior officers and men of the said rangers, and I do hereby command them to obey you as their lieutenant, and you are to observe and follow all such orders and directions as you shall from time to time receive from me or your superior officers, according to law.
Given under My Hand and Seal at New York this Tenth day of October 1776 and the Sixteenth year of His Majesty's Reign,
BURLINGTON</font id="Trebuchet MS"></center>