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State of Maine.

To all persons to whom these presents shall come,

Greeting:

[to the left is a circle with "Seal." inside it and "Albion K. Parris," written under it]

Whereas, before our Supreme Judicial Court, begun and held at York, within and for the County of York, on the last tuesday of April, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty four, William Johnson Merrill, of Buxton, in our said County of York, was convicted of the Crime of Shop Breaking and Larceny; and thereupon, by our said Court, was sentenced to be punished by solitary imprisonment for the term of one month; and that this sentence be executed upon him and within the precincts of the State’s Prison, in Thomaston, in the County of Lincoln, a part of which sentence yet remains to be executed; And he the said William Johnson Merrill, has humbly supplicated Us for mery [mercy]:

Now know ye, That, upon full consideration of the premises, We do hereby remit to him the said William Johnson Merrill, that part of the punishment aforesaid, which yet remains to be executed; and grant to him the said William Johnson Merrill a full and free Pardon of the Crime aforesaid; of which all our Judges, Justices, Magistrates, and Officers of every denomination are to take notice.

Witness Albion K. Parris, our Governor, with the advice and consent of our Council, and our Seal hereunto affixed, at Portland the twenty sixth day of July, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred & twenty four; and in the forty ninth year of the Independence of the United States of America.

By the Governor;

A: Nichols, Secretary of State,