His Excellency Arthur Dobbs Esquire &c to Benjamin Heron Esquire Greeting Out of the Assurance I have of your Loyalty &c I do hereby Nominate, constitute, and Appoint you the said Benjamin Heron Naval Officer of the province of North Carolina To have hold Exercise and Enjoy the said Naval office &c during my pleasure in as full and Ample a manner as any Naval Officer of the said Province Hath heretofore held exercised and enjoyed the same &c
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto Caused the Seal of the Province aforesaid to be fixed at Brunswick this thirty first day of August 1762 &c