Pardon of George Dunbar Usher

This document is a presidential pardon signed by George Washington from the case U.S. v. Hezikiah and George Usher, heard in the May 1791 term of the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island. Brothers Hezikiah and George Usher had been fined $400 for assisting in unloading goods from a ship without proper customs permits. The pardon is also signed by Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson.

The National Archives at Boston holds criminal and civil case files and dockets for cases heard in the U.S. District and U.S. Circuit Courts for the New England states. The case file for U.S. v. Hezikiah and George Usher can be found in the series Case Files, October 1790–February 1888. 

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