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In this letter, Mrs. Mathews expresses to the governor that she wants her overseers to moved to First Class and returned to plantation in Wilcox County to help manage enslaved population.
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S.C. Donaldson was elected as an assistant instructor at the University of Alabama, and he is writing to Governor Watts to ask that he may be discharged from service from the Confederate Government to assume his post at the University.
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In this letter, Mr. Marbury asks Gov. T. H. Watts to be released from his duties as an impressment agent due to poor health and old age.
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Phillips addresses his inability to serve due to his rheumatism
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In the letter, F.S. Blount tells of his attempt to pass the Governor's letter to General Polk and Governor Clarke, their willingness to give aid, and of attempts to assess Sherman's Campaign in Mississippi. He speaks of General Maury's plan to resist impressing enslaved labor as they were needed for production of food provisions.
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Lt. Col. Sheliha of the Engineer Department requests immediate increase of enslaved laborers for defense works of Mobile; if the governors doesn't send them, Sheliha predicts "another calamity."
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The docket for the case of Godfrey, an enslaved boy, whose execution was stayed for only several months by Andrew B. Moore. Godfrey was convicted of murdering a white boy but citizens of Mobile petitioned to have him pardoned because of his young age.
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A letter from Judge Alexander McKinstry to Governor A.B. Moore requesting that the execution of an enslaved boy, Godfrey, be stayed for thirty days.
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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).
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Petition to Governor A.B. Moore from Franklin, Alabama, for the release and pardon of John O'Neal [Oniel]. He was imprisoned for larceny in April 1838.
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From the Alabama Department of Archives and History Governor A. B. Moore Collection. Petition from Citizens of Shelby County requesting the expungement of charges associated with George Ruper.
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From the Alabama Department of Archives and History Governor A. B. Moore Collection. Letter from Jas. G. Coman to Andrew B. Moore requesting that the governor terminate the imprisonment of Seabarn Flannigan assigned for theft of a mule.
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From the Alabama Department of Archives and History Governor A. B. Moore Collection. Formal letter written to prove their was a mistake in the Garrot case and to remit the penalty if possible.
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From the Alabama Department of Archives and History Governor A. B. Moore Collection. Letter from a Montgomery judge pertaining to Mr. Davis's case.
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From the Alabama Department of Archives and History Governor A. B. Moore Collection. Formal indictment letter from a circuit court clerk against Mr. Davis for assault and battery with weapons.
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From the Alabama Department of Archives and History Governor A. B. Moore Collection. A bond of 250 dollars was given and forfeited.
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From the Alabama Department of Archives and History Governor A. B. Moore Collection. Inspectors praised George Carmilich's exemplary cooperation and deserves his sentence to be shortened.
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From the Alabama Department of Archives and History Governor A. B. Moore Collection. Letter from friends of Carmilich to A.B. Moore trying to convince him to shorten his sentence.
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From the Alabama Department of Archives and History Governor A. B. Moore Collection. Executive Department tries to reason with Governor Moore to pardon Hanegan
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From the Alabama Department of Archives and History Governor A. B. Moore Collection. Citizens of mobile collaborate a petition to free Martin Fay (a working man) early, the pardon is meant for A.B. Moore
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From the Alabama Department of Archives and History Governor A. B. Moore Collection. The petitioners and A.B. Moore believe Martin Fay served his time in the penitentiary and should be released earlier than his sentence says.
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From the Alabama Department of Archives and History Governor A. B. Moore Collection. The inspectors tell the reader of the letter that Martin Fay served his time in the penitentiary and should be free.
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From the Alabama Department of Archives and History Governor A. B. Moore Collection. Letter that George Jones has been received in the [Mason?] penitentiary.
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From the Alabama Department of Archives and History Governor A. B. Moore Collection. Petition seeking to stop the execution of a slave for stealing some bread,
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From the Alabama Department of Archives and History Governor A. B. Moore Collection. Letter recording the slaying and fines for murdering several slaves.
