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State of Maine

To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come,

[to the left is a circle with the word "Seal" written inside and "Albion K. Parris" underneath]

Greeting:

Whereas, before our Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, holden at Augusta, in the County of Kennebec, in the month of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, John E. French, of Canaan, in our said County of Somerset, was convicted of the crime of Swindling one John Simpson of Cornville in our said County of Somerset, and thereupon by our said Court was sentenced to pay a fine of thirty dollars and suffer two months imprisonment, which sentence has been fully executed: and the said John E. French, has humbly supplicated Us for mercy:

Now Know Ye, That, upon full consideration of the premises, WE do hereby grant to him the said John E. French 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 Albion K. Parris, our Governor, with the advice and consent of our Council, and our Seal hereunto affixed, at Portland, the twenty sixth day of January, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty one; and in the forty sixth year of the Independence of the United States of America.

By the Speaker of the House of Representatives, exercising the Office of Governor,

Ashur Ware, Secretary of State.