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State of Maine.

To all persons to whom these present shall come

Greeting

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

Whereas, before our Supreme Judicial Court, begun and holden at Alfred, within and for the county of York, on the third tuesday of September in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine, Mary Swett, of Limington in our said county of York, Spinster, was convicted of the Crime of Adultery; upon which conviction, sentence has not been passed; and she the said Mary Swett, has humbly supplicated us for mercy:

Now Know Ye, That, upon full consideration of the premises, We do hereby grant to her the said Mary Swett, 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 thirteenth 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