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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 "Jonathan G. Hunton” written under it]

Greeting.

Whereas, before our Supreme Judicial Court, begun and holden at Alfred within and for the county of York, on the third Tuesday of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine; Abner M. Libby, of Limington, in our said county of York, yeoman, was convicted of the Crime of Adultery, and thereupon by our said court was sentenced to be punished by confinement to hard labour [labor] for the term of eighteen months, within the precincts of the State Prison situate in Thomaston in the county of Lincoln, and he the said Abner M. Libby, has humbly supplicated Us for mercy:

Now Know Ye, That upon full consideration of the premises, We do hereby remit to him the said Abner M. Libby that part of the punishment aforesaid, which yet remains to be executed, and grant to him the said Abner M. Libby, 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, Jonathan G. Hunton, our Governor, with the advice and consent of our Council, and our Seal hereunto affixed, at Portland, the first day of July in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty; and in the fifty fourth year of the Independence of the United States of America.

By the Governor:

Edward Russell, Secretary of State.