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State of Maine

to all persons to whom these presents shall come,

Greetings:

[to left the of the following paragraph is a circle with the word "Seal." underlined inside it and "William King" written under it]

Whereas, before the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, begun and holden at Castine, within our County of Hancock, and for our Counties of Hancock, Penobscot and Washington, on the second Monday of September, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, by adjourment from the third Tuesday of June of the same year, William Merchant, of Deer isle, in our County of Hancock aforesaid laborer[?] was convicted of the crime of Larceny, on two[?] several Indictments; and thereupon, by our said Court was sentenced to, on one conviction, solitary imprisonment for the term of two days, and afterwards to confinement to hard labor for the term of six months; and on the other conviction, was sentenced to solitary imprisonment for the term of two days, and to confinement to hard labor for the term of six months, commencing after the expiration of the former sentence, and both to be executed on him in the jail[?] of the County of Hancock; a part of which latter sentence remains unexecuted; and he the said William Merchant has humbly supplicated us for mercy.

Now know ye, that, upon full consideration of the fairness[?], we do hereby remit to him the said William Merchant , all that part of the punishment aforesaid that remains unexecuted, and grant to him the said William Merchant a ful and free pardon of the crime aforesaid; of which all our Judges, Justices, Magistrates and officers of every denomination are to take notice.

Witness William King, our Governor, with the advise and consent of our Council, and our Seal hereunto affixed, at Portland, the twenty second day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, and in the forty fourth year of the Independence of the United States of America.

By the Governor

Ashur Ware, Secretary of State