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State of Maine.

To all persons to whom these presents shall come

Greeting:

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

Whereas before our Court of Common Pleas begun and holden at Augusta, within and for the County of Kennebec, on the second Tuesday of April, being the ninth day of said month, in the year of our Lord; one thousand eight hundred and twenty two. Nathaniel Andros of Sidney, in our said County of Kennebec, yeoman, was convicted of the crime of Theft, and thereupon by our said Court was sentenced to be punished by solitary confinement for the term of ten days, and afterwards by imprisonment for the space of thirty days in and within the precincts of the Gaol in said County and pay costs of prosecution which sentence has been executed, and he the said Nathaniel Andros has humbly supplicated Us for mercy.

Now Know Ye, That upon full consideration of the premises, We do hereby grant to him the said Nathaniel Andros, 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 twenty fourth day of June, 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