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State of Maine.

To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come.

[to the left is a circle with "Seal." inside it and "Enoch Lincoln” written under it]

Greeting.

Whereas, before the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, begun and holden at Castine within the county of Hancock, and for the counties of Hancock, Washington and Penobscot on the third Tuesday of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixteen Nathaniel Stanley of Castine in our said county of Hancock, Laborer, was convicted of the Crime of Larceny, and thereupon by said Court was sentenced to be punished by solitary imprisonment for the term of five days; and that afterwards he be confined to hard labor for the term of two years, and he the said Nathaniel Stanley has humbly supplicated Us for mercy:

Now Know Ye, That, upon full consideration of the premises, We do hereby grant to him the said Nathaniel Stanley 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, Enoch Lincoln, our Governor, with the advice and consent of our Council, and our Seal hereunto affixed, at Portland, the third day of March, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine; and in the fifty third year of the Independence of the United States of America.

By the Governor:

Edward Russell, Secretary of State.