Petition to A.B. Moore to pardon Godrey, an enslaved boy
Item
Identifier
Q0000133365_Q0000133368
Title
Petition to A.B. Moore to pardon Godrey, an enslaved boy
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Type
Petition
Creator
Lewis, Reuben A., citizens of Mobile County
Date
1858 April 28
Description
Petition for the pardon of Godfrey, an enslaved boy who was convicted of murdering another child and sentenced to death. Moore suspended the pardon but Godfrey was hung on July 30, 1858 (see attached newspaper clipping from the Independent American [Troy, Ala.], August 4, 1858; see also case summary from Alabama Reports, vol. 31, accessed via Harvard's Case Law Access Project).
Format
text
Language
English
Place
Mobile County (Ala.)
Publisher
Alabama Department of Archives and History. (electronic version)
Contributor
Julia Brock, Darin Federspill
Relation
Q0000133362_Q0000133363
transcription
The State of Alabama}
Mobile County}
I, Reuben A. Lewis Clerk of the City Council of Mobile for the county and State aforesaid do hereby certify that the following named eleven persons who have signed the foregoing petition, were members of the Jury that sat upon the trial of the State of Alabama against Godfrey convicted of the crime of murder [?] Alfred Bull Patrick Quinlan Elias M Edwards Charles A. Gilbert Lewis Mc-Queen James W Turner Daniel B Crane Caleb E White G. W Barnaby Otis Monroe and D. [Pelebar?]
In testimony whereof I have hereunto let my hand and affixed the seal of the Court this 28th day of April AD 1858
Attest Reuben A. Lewis
Clerk
[page break]
To His Excellency A. B. Moore.
Governor of the State of Alabama.
Your petitioner citizens of the city & county of Mobile respectfully ask that the slave boy Godfrey, who is under sentence of death, for the murder of a child, be pardoned on account of His Extreme youth at the time that he com-mitted the offence.
Jno T. Taylor U. T. Cleveland Sheriff of MC
Jno. Hall W. [B?]. Cleveland
Percy Walker J. J. Wilson Clk Circuit Ct.
[?] J H Daughvill
George N. Stewart Jno M Taylor
[?] T. Sanford
Jno A. Hitchcock H. Munroe
James L. Deas E M Godbold
E S Dargan T. L. [?]
L. R. Langley [Jacob Meags?]
James Bruce
J W Mann R. S. Watkins
C J McRae S H Eason
Gom Rac Lewis McQueen
M. R. Hallett M. Portier
William A. Dawson R. Hackett
[I.F. Winn?] Daniel B. [Crane?]
Chas Walsh M. WaringChas P. Gage John Slaughter
Thos. Strang Jr. P. Quinlan
Nelson W. Perry Alfred Bull
Jacob Reese D. D. Lahan
Alphonce Hurtel E. M. Edwards
John C. Buford C A Gilbert
A G. Reguier G. W. Barnaby
Otis Munroe
J W Turner
C. E. White
B B Cox
John Hurtel
R. D. [Poole?]
J Parham
L Merchant
Thos McConnellf
George N. [Donaway?]
F. Hurtel
R M. Sands
[page break]
Executive Department 4. May/58
The slave Godfy who was convicted and sentenced to be hung at the last turn of the city court of Mobile is further reprieved for [?] & the execution of said sentence suspended until [?] the 16th day of July next.
A. B. Moore
Mobile County}
I, Reuben A. Lewis Clerk of the City Council of Mobile for the county and State aforesaid do hereby certify that the following named eleven persons who have signed the foregoing petition, were members of the Jury that sat upon the trial of the State of Alabama against Godfrey convicted of the crime of murder [?] Alfred Bull Patrick Quinlan Elias M Edwards Charles A. Gilbert Lewis Mc-Queen James W Turner Daniel B Crane Caleb E White G. W Barnaby Otis Monroe and D. [Pelebar?]
In testimony whereof I have hereunto let my hand and affixed the seal of the Court this 28th day of April AD 1858
Attest Reuben A. Lewis
Clerk
[page break]
To His Excellency A. B. Moore.
Governor of the State of Alabama.
Your petitioner citizens of the city & county of Mobile respectfully ask that the slave boy Godfrey, who is under sentence of death, for the murder of a child, be pardoned on account of His Extreme youth at the time that he com-mitted the offence.
Jno T. Taylor U. T. Cleveland Sheriff of MC
Jno. Hall W. [B?]. Cleveland
Percy Walker J. J. Wilson Clk Circuit Ct.
[?] J H Daughvill
George N. Stewart Jno M Taylor
[?] T. Sanford
Jno A. Hitchcock H. Munroe
James L. Deas E M Godbold
E S Dargan T. L. [?]
L. R. Langley [Jacob Meags?]
James Bruce
J W Mann R. S. Watkins
C J McRae S H Eason
Gom Rac Lewis McQueen
M. R. Hallett M. Portier
William A. Dawson R. Hackett
[I.F. Winn?] Daniel B. [Crane?]
Chas Walsh M. WaringChas P. Gage John Slaughter
Thos. Strang Jr. P. Quinlan
Nelson W. Perry Alfred Bull
Jacob Reese D. D. Lahan
Alphonce Hurtel E. M. Edwards
John C. Buford C A Gilbert
A G. Reguier G. W. Barnaby
Otis Munroe
J W Turner
C. E. White
B B Cox
John Hurtel
R. D. [Poole?]
J Parham
L Merchant
Thos McConnellf
George N. [Donaway?]
F. Hurtel
R M. Sands
[page break]
Executive Department 4. May/58
The slave Godfy who was convicted and sentenced to be hung at the last turn of the city court of Mobile is further reprieved for [?] & the execution of said sentence suspended until [?] the 16th day of July next.
A. B. Moore
Subject
Slavery--Alabama--History--19th century, Alabama--History--19th Century, Moore, Andrew B. (Andrew Barry), 1807-1873.