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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 "Enoch Lincoln” written under it]

Whereas, before our Supreme Judicial Court begun and holden at Paris, within and for the County of Oxford, on the first tuesday of January, being the third day of said month, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty six; Jacob Cobb, of Hartford, in our said County of Oxford, Yeoman, was convicted of the Crime of passing counterfeit bank bills, and having in his possession with intent to pass the same, certain other counterfeit bank bills, and thereupon by our said Court was sentenced to be punished by solitary imprisonment in our State Prison at Thomaston, for the term of ten days, and by confinement afterwards to hard labor for the term of three years, a part of which sentence has been executed and the remainder remitted; and he the said Jacob Cobb, has humbly supplicated Us for mercy.

Now Know Ye, That upon full consideration of the premises, We do hereby grant to him the said Jacob Cobb, 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 twenty second day of January 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