Petition for pardon to A.B. Moore for the release of Jacob Parmer

Item

Identifier

Q0000134258_Q0000134267

Title

Petition for pardon to A.B. Moore for the release of Jacob Parmer

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Type

text

Creator

E [C?] Bullock

Date

1859 April 5

Description

Petition to Governor A.B. Moore from Clayton, Alabama, for the release and pardon of Jacob Parmer. <br><br>The petition states that E C? Bullock believes Parmer to be innocent of the charges despite the fact that they were hired to prosecute in the case against Parmer.

Language

English

Publisher

Alabama Department of Archives and History. (electronic version)

Contributor

Soleil Ozols

transcription

Q0000134258_Q0000134261

The State of Alabama [County of Barbour (Ala.)|Barbour County]]

To His Excellency [[Moore, Andrew B. (Andrew Barry), 1807-1873|Andrew B Moore]]

Governor of the State of Alabama.

The undersigned citizens of said state and acquaintences of Jacob Par-mer, in behalf of said [[Parmer, Jacob|Jacob Parmer]] who was at the last term of the [[Circuit courts|Circuit Court]] for said County [[conviction,convicted]] of [[larcener, larceny]] from the person, respectfully petition your ex-cellency and pray that he may be released from imprisonment in the penitentiary to which he has been sentenced for three years under the conviction as above set forth.

The said Parmer has been raised in Barbour County and for a long time personally and favorably known to most of the undersigned.

For these reasons more fully set forth in the affidavits accompanying this petition, the undersigned pray your Excellency to pardon the said Jacob Parmer of the offense of which he has been convicted, and that he may be restored to his family and to so-ciety of which he was once a useful member.

Dale Co. gang
Henry Co William H. Morris
Dale Co. Jessie [Spire?]
Dale Co H E Ray
Alfred Mizell
Wm Hicks
Barbour Co Jesse Browning
Dale Co Wm [?] Sanders
L. Griffin
E.H. King
Thos Chancey
Asbury Pearce
William Brown
[?] Cutchen
E. L. E. Bryan
Dale Co W H Hewitt

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Dale S.G. Bloodworth
John A. Woods Henry County old
A. G. Reynolds “”
James Dunkin “”
Jehu [Meems?] “”
Z. A. Swilley Dale County
George P. Stephens “”
Thomas Amons “”
Wm C. Cox “”
Henry Co James Paramore
“” H J M Gaylord
“” M A Paramore
Dale Co W H Jones
“” R A Paramore
“” H R Simmons
Dale Co Thomas C Ward
David [Tillman?]
W. D. Harris
W L [Solmons?]
Thomas Ammon
H C Seay
D B Halstead
Will Brown
E. G. [Riddel?]
B. C. Parmer
[R.?] H. Watson
W D Johnston
[Heath?] [?]
John D. [?]
W S Ward
J Woodham
G W [?]
A G Fellum
W A Weatherington
William J [Garner?]
Wm J Bracewell
Lemuel [?]
Edmund [?]
A. W. Hobbs

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Petition for Jacob Parmer
For Pardon

[Ala. Dept. of History and Archives Stamp]



Subject

Moore, A. B. (Andrew Barry), 1807-1873; Governors--Alabama; Alabama--Politics and government--To 1865; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865