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shortly after the MeckIenburg Declaration wa.
made, appointed Thomas Polk, Colonel, in the
salisbury District, and afterwards Colonel of Neck.
lenburg County. Col. Thos. Polk continu eo
throughout the struggle, and to the close of the
revolution, hrm, active, unshrinking and fear
less defender of the cause of the colonies aoains
the British Crown. Few, if any officer Of the
Revolution in the Southern States, performed
more valuable services against the British ami To-
ries, throughout the whole war, than did Colonel
homas Polk. His younger brother, -Ezeke
Folk, the Democratic candidate for the Presden.
cy, performed also important and valuable services
IN the whig army. On the 18th day Of June, ITS
ne was commissioned a Captain by the Council of
safety of South Carolina, IN a Regiment Of Ran.
gers, commanded by Col. WM. THoMPsoN. For.
tunately for truth, that commission has been pre-.
served, and tho original parchment on which it is
written and printed is now before the writer's of
tins paper. member of the family who differs
widely with Gov. Polk, in his political opinions.
and is highly respectable member of the whig
party, feeling indignant the false charge of to-
rylsm made against the memory of his grandun-
cie' Ezekiel Folk, a few weeks ago caused the fol-
loving Authorization of the commission of Cap
tain, granted to Ezekiel Polk, to be made-to wit:
line undersigned. citizens of Maury county,
tennessee, at The request of some of the members
OF the family of the late Col. Ezekiel Polk, formcr-
OF MeckIenberg county, North Carolina and af-
terwards OF this State, who died about twenty
years ago, have this day inspected an original com
mission OF Captain Of Rangers. in the whig army
OF the revolution. granted 10 Ezekiel Polk by the
authorities OF South Carolina, which is as follows:


SOUTH CAROLINA.
IN PURSUANCE OF THE Resolutions OF THE
THE PROVINCIAL CoNGREss:-
ave do hereby cerlifythat Ezekiel Polk, Esq,
Is Is second Captain an The Regiment Of Rangers, in
Of June, l775."


WIN. WILLIAMS,


J. HARRIS,


THOS. BEE,


CHARLES e. PINCKNEY,


NJ. BREWTON.


ARTHUR MIDDLETON,


THOMAS HEY WARD, ir.,


WIN. II. DRAYTON,


JAMES PARSONS,


HENRY LAURENS,


RAWS. LOWNDES


THOMAS FERGUSON,


BENZ, ELLIOTT.