By His Excellency, Colonel & Commander-in-Chief Scott Ludwig, DSM, The British Armies in America
To Joseph Alberti, Lieutenant Colonel, commanding the
Right Wing, British Army
To all who see these presents, greetings:
Reposing full confidence in your loyalty, courage and good conduct, and in recognition of the experience gained upon the field, I do hereby constitute and appoint you, during our pleasure, to exercise all rights and privileges pertaining to the rank of Colonel,taking such rank and precedence from the present day. You are, therefore, carefully and diligently to discharge all duties and responsibilities of such rank by exercising and well disciplining the inferior officers and men of the said regiment, and I do hereby command them to obey you as their Colonel, 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 Philadelphia this Twenty First day of February 1781 and the twenty first year of His Majesty's Reign,
Ludwig
