To his Excellency Arthur Dobbs, Esquire, Captain, General, Governor, and Commander in Chief in & over the province of North Carolina

The petetion of George Martin

Humbly Sheweth

That your sd petetioner by misfortune was the Occasion Of the death of one Sugar Jones & for which He Stood his Tryal at the Superior Court of pleas & grand Sessions held for the district of Halifax at the Town on the first day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand Seven Hundred & Sixty one, upon which Tryal the Jurors Elected & Sworn &c. did upon their Oaths then and there aquit your said petetioner of the Murder of [the] aforesd. Sugar Jones of which he then Stood Charged and then & there the aforesead Jurors Did find that the said Sugar Jones to his death Came by Misfortune Therefore your petetioner would Most Humbly pray that your Excellency will be Graciously pleased to grant him his Majesties most Gracious Pardon According to the Custom and usagge in Such Case And your petetioner as In duty bound shall

Ever pray &c.

Geo: Martin

Brunswick 31. Augt 1762

Let a pardon issue agreeable to the Prayer of the within petition.

Arthur Dobbs