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To his Excellency Governor James F. Robinson

Your petitioner Martha Williams would respectfully ^state^ that on the day of May 1863 one Mary A. Gravel a woman of doubtful character came to the house of your petitioner and used very insulting language to petitioner whereupon she ordered Mrs Gravel out of her (pititioners house) and Mrs Gravel refused to go and abused and greatly provoved your petitioner so she put her out of the house which Mrs Gravel resolutely resisted and a few days after wards Mrs Gravel had your petitioner & her dauter (to prevent the daughter being a witness) arrested for a breach of the peach and upon her testimony alone your petitioner was fined $20.00 her daughter was acquited but the court refused her evidence for your petitioner the daughter & husband of petitioner alone being present at the time Mrs Gravel was put out of the house of your petitioner your petitioner files a copy of the Virdict & Judgment herewith she says she & her husband are ill able to pay the file ^fine^ which fine if the true facts could have been before the Court she is satisfied would never have been asssssed Wherefore She prays that the fine be remitted & for all Just relief

June 18th 1863