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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Manuscripts and Documents Description An account of the resource This collection consists of manuscripts and documents which were acquired as individual items not forming part of a large collection of personal papers or corporate records. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document <h5><strong>Recto</strong></h5> <br /><p>By His Excellency The Honorable William Howe,<br />General and Commander in Chief of all His Majesty's Forces within the Colonies laying on<br />the Atlantic Ocean from Nova Scotia to West Florida inclusive &amp;. &amp;. &amp;.</p> <p>To Richard S^t. George Mansergh S^t. George Gent.</p> <br /><p>By Virtue of the Power and Authority in me vested, I do hereby constitute and<br />appoint you to be Lieutenant to that Company whereof   Esq^r. is Captain in His <br />Majesty's Fifty Second Regiment of Foot. Commanded by Lieutenant General John Clavering.<br />You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the Duty of Lieutenant, by exercising and well disciplining both<br />the inferior Officers and Soldiers of that Company ; And I do hereby command them to obey you as their Lieutenant.<br />And you are to observe and follow such Orders and Directions from Time to Time as you may receive from your Colonel,<br />Captain or any other your superior Officer, According to the Rules and Discipline of War, in pursuance of the Trust hereby<br />reposed in you. Given under my Hand and Seal at Head Quarters in New York the Twenty third Day of December,<br />One Thosand Seven Hundred and Seventy Six, in the Seventeenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third,<br />by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith and so forth.</p> <br /><p>W Howe</p> <br /><p>By His Excellency's Command,<br />Robert Mackenzie</p> <br /><h5><strong>Verso</strong></h5> <br /><p>Rich^d. S^t. George Mansergh S^t. George Gent.<br />Lieutenant<br />52^nd Regiment of Foot.</p> Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Ink on paper Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Great Britain. Army Title A name given to the resource Richard St. George Mansergh St. George military commission, 1776 December 23 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1776-12-23 Description An account of the resource <p>William Howe signed military commission dated December 23, 1776 appointing Richard St. George Mansergh St. George lieutenant in the 52nd Regiment of Foot. The British Army under Howe was at that time stationed in New York City.</p> <p>Mansergh was horribly wounded at the Battle of Germantown on October 4, 1777. A surgeon removed a portion of his skull which was then covered with a silver plate. Mansergh retired from the military in 1785. We was killed in Ireland during the uprising in 1798.</p> <p>The commission was on display at the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia as part of the exhibit: <em>Cost of Revolution: The Life and Death of an Irish Soldier</em> from September 28, 2019 through March 17, 2020.</p> Subject The topic of the resource Mansergh-St. George, Richard St. George Great Britain. Army. Regiment of Foot, 52nd Military commissions Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context MS2007.3 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Howe, William Howe, Viscount, 1729-1814