To his Excellency Tho: Jefferson President of the United States

Humbly shews

Jess Brown, now a prisoner is Boston Gaol, and late of Adams in the District of Massachusetts, Trader, that at the Circuit Court for the first Circuit begun and held at Boston within and for the District of Massachusetts on Saturday the first Day of June in the Year of our LORD, one thousand eight hundred & five, he was found guilty of uttering and publishing, three counterfeited Bank Notes, to wit, a counterfeited Bank Note of five Dollars to one John Harvey Saunderson, to wit, a counterfeited Bank Note of five Dollars to one Zebulon Robinson, to wit, a counterfeited Bank Note of five Dollars to one John Edwards, as by a Copy of the Record herewith transmitted appears, and was sentenced on each indictment to six months imprisonment, amounting in the whole, to Eighteen Months, to pay a Fine of Fifty dollars, to the use of the United States, amounting in the whole to one hundred and fifty dollars, to pay Costs of Prosecution, and stand committed untill sentence be performed: And your Petitioner begs leave further to represent, that the Term of his imprisonment will expire on the fourteenth day of December Anno Domini 1806. and that he is poor, and totally unable to comply with that part of his sentence, which imposes upon him the payment of fines and the Costs of Court. Wherefore he humbly, prays, that your Excellency in mercy will remit the same; And your Petitioner humbly begs leave further to represent, that he is a very Young man, that the Crimes for which he stands convicted were all committed, in a few hours, on the same day by passing the Bank Notes aforesaid to toll-men upon a Turnpike; that they are the first Crimes, which have ever been alledged against him and that he was seduced to the commission of them by the Artifice and Persuasion of a Man, named Paul Shippey, with whom he was accidently journeying; much older than himself, all which appeared to the Court before Sentence, and was the reason of its being so Comparatively mild; that your Petitioner has education and talents, competent to make him a useful Citizen; Wherefore he humbly prays that your Excellency would be graciously pleased to remit the remainder of his punishment and to grant him a full, and entire Pardon for his Offences, that he may be relieved from those perpetual disabilities, which will otherwise forever cramp his exertions, and destroy his future usefulness. And your Petitioner, as in duty bound, will ever pray.