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State of Maine
To all persons to whom these Presents shall come,
Greeting:
[to the left of the following paragraph is a circle with the word "Seal." underlined inside it and "William King" written under it]
Whereas, before the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts begun and holden at Castine, within the County of Hancock and for the Counties of Hancock, Washington and Penobscot, on the third Tuesday on June, being the sixteenth day of said month, in the year of our Lord 1818, William Bartlett of Mount Desert, in the County of Hancock, a minor under the age of twenty one years, was convicted of the crime of Larceny; and thereupon by said Court, was continued for sentence, and he was ordered to find sureties in the sum of three hundred dollars, for his appearance at the next term. And at the Supreme Judicial Court, at Castine, September, A D 1819 David Wasgatt, of Mount Desert, in the County of Hancock, Esquire, recognized, in the sum of fifty dollars, for the appearance of the Defendant at the next term:
Now know ye, that upon full consideration of the premises, We do hereby grant him the said William Bartlett, a full and free pardon of the crime aforesaid – Of which all our Judges, Justices, Magistrates and officers of any denomination are to take notice.
Witness: William King, our Governor, with the advice and consent of the Council, and our Seal hereunto affixed, at Portland, this sixth day of July, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty; and in the forty fifth year of the Independence of the United States.
By the Governor;
Ashur Ware, Secretary of State