I, WILLIAM HILL, Secretary of State, in and for the State of North Carolina, do hereby certify, that it appears from the muster-rolls of the Continental line of this State, in the Revolutionary War, that John Alexander a private Soldier in Capt. Ballards Company of the tenth Regiment, entered the service on the day of [intentionally blank] 1779, for the term of nine months, and was discharged on the first day of December 1779.