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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 "Jonathan G. Hunton” written under it]

Whereas, before our Supreme Judicial Court, begun and holden at Augusta, within and for the county of Kennebec, on the first Tuesday of October, being the third day of said month in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty six, Joshua O. LeFevre, now of Thomaston in our county of Lincoln was convicted of the crime of breaking shop & Larceny, and thereupon by our said court was sentenced to be punised [punished] by solitary imprisonment for the term of one month and by confinement afterwards to hard labor for the term of one year, within the precincts of the State Prison situate in Thomaston in the county of Lincoln, which sentence has been executed, and he the said Joshua D. LeFevre has humbly supplicated Us for mercy.

Now Know Ye, That, upon full consideration of the premise, We do hereby grant to him the said Joshua O. LeFevre, 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 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.