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State of Maine.

To all Persons to whom these Present sshall come,

[to the left is a circle with "Seal." inside it and "Jonathan G. Hunton” written under it]

Greeting.

Whereas, before the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, begun and holden at Augusta, within and for the county of Kennebec, on the last Tuesday of May, being the thirteenth day of said month, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nine, Stephen Furbush, no resident of Rome, in our said county of Kennebec, was convicted of the Crime of Counterfeiting, and thereupon by said court was sentenced to be punished by solitary imprisonment for the term of ten days, and by confinement afterwards to hard labor for the term of one year, within the State Prison situated in Charlestown in the County of Middlesex, which sentence has been fully executed, and he the said Stephen Furbush has humbly supplicated Us for mercy:

Now Know Ye, That upon full consideration of the premises, We do hereby grant to him the said Stephen Furbush, 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 and consent of our Council, and our Seal hereunto affixed, at Portland, the fourth day of March, 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.