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By His Excellency, Field Marshal The Marquess of Kingston, K.C.B., Commander-in-Chief, British Armies in America
To <font color="yellow"><b>The Most Honble. The Marquess of Crown Point (Phil Natta)</b></font id="yellow">, Lieutenant General, of the First Foot Guards
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">General Officer Commanding the Brigade of Guards, British Armies in America</font id="yellow"></b>, with the privileges and duties of a corps commander, taking rank and precedence from the present day. You are, therefore, carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of general officer commanding by exercising and well disciplining the inferior officers and men of the said brigade, and I do hereby command them to obey you as their general officer commanding, 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 Fifteenth day of July 1776 and the Sixteenth year of His Majesty's Reign,
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