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State of Maine.

[To the left is a circle with the word “Seal” written inside and “Albion K. Parris” underneath]

To His Excellency Samuel Bell, Governor of the state of New Hampshire.

The undersigned, Governor of the State of Maine, would inform your excellency, that George W. Gordon, of Bangor, in the County of Penobscot, and state aforesaid, laborer, charged with the crime of Larceny and duly convicted thereof as will appear by the annexed copies of official records in the public offices of this State remaining, fugitive from justice, and said to be confined in the Gaol, at Hopkinton, in the County of Hillsborough in the State of New Hampshire: your Excellency is, therefore, request, agreeably to the Constitution and a law of the United States, to cause the said George W. Gordon to be delivered to Col: Phillip Greely who is hereby appointed to receive the said Gordon and transport him to this State, and to the Gaol in said County of Penobscot, that he the said Gordon, may there be dealt with according to Law:

In testimony whereof, I have caused the Public seal of this State to be hereunto affixed, this twenty seventh day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty three; and in the forty seventh year of the Independence of the United States of America.

By the Governor;

A: Nichols, Secretary of the State