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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 "Albion K. Parris," written under it]

Greeting:

Whereas, before our Supreme Judicial Court, holden at Augusta within and for the County of Kennebec, on the first Tuesday of June, being the third day of said month, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty three, Susan Dearborn, late resident of Greene, in our said County of Kennebec, was convicted of the Crime of Larceny from a Dwelling House; and thereupon, by our said Court, was sentenced to be punished by solitary imprisonment for the term of one month; and afterwards by confinement to hard labor for the term of one year, in and within the State’s Gaol in said County of Kennebec; a part of which sentence yet remains to be executed; and she the said Susan Dearborn has humbly supplicated us for mercy:

Now Know Ye, that, upon full consideration of the premises, WE do hereby remit to her the said Susan Dearborn, that part of the punishment aforesaid which yet remains to be executed; and grant to her the said Susan Dearborn a full and free Pardon of the Crime aforesaid; of which 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 Seat hereunto affixed, at Portland, the seventh day of October, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty three; and in the forty eighth year of the Independence of the United States of America.

By the Governor.

A: Nichols, Secretary of State.