Pardon of John Arthur Bowen for felony, 27 June 1836.
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Collection: The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859.
Electronic reproduction. Marlborough, Wiltshire : AM, 2014. Digitized from a copy held by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.
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Countersigned by Secretary of State John Forsyth. Bowen, identified as a Negro man Slave, had been convicted of felony and sentenced to hang. He had been given two respites by President Andrew Jackson, who here pardons him completely as a fit subject for executive clemency and in consideration of divers other good and sufficient reasons.