Pardons, paroles, and clemency files of Governor Israel Pickens for Marengo through Mobile Counties.

These records consist of correspondence, petitions, and legal documents relating to requests for pardon, parole, and remission of fines. Most of the documents items give details of both the offenses for which the individuals were convicted, as well as their backgrounds and personal lives. Among the...

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Published: Alabama Department of Archives and History
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Summary:These records consist of correspondence, petitions, and legal documents relating to requests for pardon, parole, and remission of fines. Most of the documents items give details of both the offenses for which the individuals were convicted, as well as their backgrounds and personal lives. Among the cases here are those of James Huckaby of Marengo County, who was convicted of stealing a cow; Moses, a man in Mobile County convicted of killing his enslaver; Wilson Gilbert and William Langley, who kept a ""bawdy house"" in Mobile County; and Manuel, a Choctaw Indian in Mobile County, who was convicted for murdering a person enslaved by William Dubroea.