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Alabama. Governor (1847-1849 : Chapman). Appointments files, 1847-1849.

Title: Appointments files, 1847-1849.

The governor is the chief executive of the state whose function is to administer the laws of the state. One of the activities used to accomplish this function is the appointing of individuals to various state and local offices and the signing of grants and commissions. This series contains letters and petitions relating to appointments, resignations, commissions, and contested elections. It contains recommendations for various positions and reasons for resignation from office. Some of the specific positions for which the Governor made appointments include an agent for the salt reserve in Clarke County, the director of the state bank in Mobile, and the solicitor for the second judicial ciruit. Chapman was also called upon to appoint a replacement to the U.S. Senate seat vacated by former governor Arthur P. Bagby in 1848 when he was appointed U.S. ambassador to Russia by President Polk. This series also contains correspondence to various state Supreme Court judges recommending individuals for appointment as the court clerk.

ArchivalResource: Originals 0.5 cubic ft., 1 archives box.Copies 1 microfilm reel.

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Alabama. Governor (1845-1847 : Martin). Administrative files, 1845-1847.

Title: Administrative files, 1845-1847.

The governor is the chief executive of the state whose function is to administer the laws of the state. One of the activities used to accomplish this function is the administering of executive decisions and actions. This series consists of the administrative files of Governor Joshua L. Martin and contains correspondence, reports, petitions, and copies of laws and resolutions. Some of the prominent topics discussed in the series include funds to which Alabama was entitled that were collected by the federal government from the sale of public land, the state bank in Mobile, and conditions at the state penitentiary. Among the items relating to the state penitentiary is a report on the prisoners that gives the name, age, and height of the prisoner, place of birth, the crime committed, the convict's former occupation, the county in which the conviction occurred, and remarks on the prisoner's behavior. There is also a letter from physician James C. Harris to the prison officials about health conditions at the state penitentiary. At a more specific level, the series contains a report by Thomas Billingsley on the navigability of the Cahaba River and the effectiveness of the Cahaba Navigation Company's attempts to maintain the river; applications from Lawrence County for licenses to sell spirituous liquors; an undated, partial draft of a speech to be delivered to the state legislature; a letter dated 1847 May 7 from John LaTourrette enclosing a map of Mexico showing battles and troop movements; and personal correspondence with E. L. Andrews regarding the marketing of Martin's cotton crop. Other correspondents include: James G. Lyon, James E. Sanders, Arthur P. Bagby, and George S. Houston.

ArchivalResource: Originals: 0.2 cubic ft. (4 folders).Copies: 1 microfilm reel.

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Alabama. Governor (1837-1841 : Bagby). Appointments files, 1837-1841.

Title: Appointments files, 1837-1841.

The Governor is the chief executive of the state whose function is to administer the laws of the state. One of the activities used to accomplish this function is the appointing of individuals to various state and local offices and the signing of grants and commissions. This series consists of letters and petitions relating to appointments, resignations, commissions, and contested elections. It also contains recommendations for various positions, detailed allegations of election fraud or corruption, or letters explaining the reason for resignation from office. Appointments to positions at the University of Alabama are documented in this series of records. Unique to Gov. Bagby's administration are records relating to appointments of examiners for the state banks, the appointment of an agent to receive and dispose of slaves that were seized due to their illegal entry into the state, and the appointment of Joseph E. Caro to translate the Spanish and French records located in the Mobile County Clerk's office.

ArchivalResource: Originals: .5 cubic ft. (15 folders).Copies: 1 microfilm reel.

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Alabama. Governor (1837-1841 : Bagby). Militia files, 1837-1841.

Title: Militia files, 1837-1841.

The Governor is the chief executive of the state whose function is to administer the laws of the state. One of the activities used to accomplish this function is the administering of decisions and actions relating to military affairs and the maintenance of the state Militia. This series contains letters, petitions, reports, and military orders relating to the militia and military affairs. Topics often discussed include equipment and supplies, ordnances, formation of companies, election of officers, and troop movements. Of specific interest are letters pertaining to the Creek and Cherokee Indian problems. There is considerable correspondence regarding the call for men to report to Bellefonte in Jackson County to assist with the removal of the Cherokees, including letters from General Winfield Scott and Colonel William Lindsay, the commander-in-chief of the Army of the Cherokee Nation. In a letter dated 1838 February 23, Lindsay specifically requests assistance from militia companies formed outside the Cherokee Nation. Correspondence regarding the Creek raids in south Alabama is also prominent in the series. This material includes letters about the Creek Indian uprising in Dale and Covington counties in the fall of 1837 as well as uprisings near Irwinton in Barbour County. Several of these letters were written by John P. Booth of Irwinton, including one dated 1841 May 26 in which he discusses a 12-year-old Creek Indian girl living with the Booth family. In addition there is considerable general correspondence between Bagby and James G. Carroll, the Adjutant Inspector General, regarding the affairs of the state militia. Although reference is made to numerous militia companies, the Mobile Rifle Company and the Montgomery True Blues are mentioned frequently. The Mount Vernon Arsenal is cited frequently throughout the series as well.

ArchivalResource: Originals: .33 cubic ft. (1 archives box and 1 oversized folder).Copies: 1 microfilm reel.

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Alabama. Governor (1847-1849 : Chapman). Administrative files, 1847-1849.

Title: Administrative files, 1847-1849.

The governor is the chief executive of the state whose function is to administer the laws of the state. One of the activities used to accomplish this function is the administering of executive decisions and actions. This series consists of letters, petitions, reports, and circulars that contain information concerning major administrative decisions of Gov. Reuben Chapam as well as routine affairs. The majority of the correspondence deals with financial issues, particularly the negotiations with the U.S. government regarding funds due the state of Alabama from public land sales. Soon after he took office Chapman appointed Montgomery lawyer, Jefferson F. Jackson, as an agent to Washington, D.C., to audit and settle accounts with the federal government regarding the land sale receipts. Robert T. Scott of Jackson County was eventually recruited to assist with the audits. There is considerable correspondence with these two men as well as with Alabama's U.S. Congressmen: Arthur P. Bagby, John Gayle, George S. Houston, and S. W. Inge. F. S. Lyon, State Comptroller Joel Riggs, and Attorney General M. A. Baldwin also corresponded with Chapman regarding state finances. The series also includes petitions and circulars regarding the construction of various roads and railway networks both in the state and nationally; correspondence with Florida officials regarding the boundary between Florida and Alabama; documents signed by Daniel Pratt about moving the state capital to Montgomery; a letter and petition from the U.S. National Medical Association urging all states to adopt a system for recording births, deaths, and marriages; and a petition from some Mobile citizens protesting the passage of a bill requiring that black ship crews be confined in jail while their vessel was docked in the Port of Mobile. Other prominent correspondents include: James Chesney, who was appointed to procure maps of Alabama as required by the state revenue bill; William Garrett, and Chapman's two private secretaries, Elmore J. Fitzpatrick and Thomas Harrison. Fitzpatrick served as Chapman's secretary until he resigned in 1848 November. Harrison then took over for the remainder of Chapman's administration. Chapman apparently spent little of his two-year term in Montgomery. The majority of the correspondence from Fitzpatrick and Harrison consists of their apprising Chapman of the correspondence they were forwarding to him at his home in Huntsville, additional information regarding the correspondents, and descriptions of life, the weather, and politics in Montgomery. Much of the correspondence that was forwarded to Chapman contains notations on the back regarding his response. This series also contains a set of typed transcripts that were transcribed from the original letter book containing Chapman's answers to some of his correspondence. This letter book (SG 5685) is part of another series of governors' records in the ADAH holdings: Alabama Governors, Correspondence.

ArchivalResource: Originals 0.5 cubic ft., 1 archives box.Copies 1 microfilm reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83043876 View

Alabama. Governor (1837-1841 : Bagby). Extraditions and requisitions files, 1837-1841.

Title: Extraditions and requisitions files, 1837-1841.

The Governor is the chief executive of the state whose function is to administer the laws of the state. One of the activities used to accomplish this function is the extraditing of criminals. This process may also be referred to as requisition and involves either a request from the Governor of Alabama for the return of criminials who have escaped to other states or a request to the Governor of Alabama for the extradition of criminals found in Alabama. This series consists of correspondence, petitions, and legal documents. Most of the items give details of the crime, the criminal, and the circumstances of the extradition/requisition request. The crimes committed by the felons included theft, murder, horse stealing, assault, forgery, and stealing slaves. Some of the more prominent cases include an appeal for the return of slave who escaped from Benjamin H. Rutherford of Macon Co. and was later discovered in Georgia; a request for the extradition of John Petty from a jail in Kentucky back to Huntsville, Ala. to stand trial for stealing a slave owned by Robert Lanford; and the case of Solomon White, an escapee from the Autauga Co. jail, who was being held in the Natchez, Miss. jail.

ArchivalResource: Originals: 0.2 cubic ft. (2 folders and 1 oversized folder).Copies: 1 microfilm reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81778091 View

Alabama. Governor (1841-1845 : Fitzpatrick). Administrative files, 1841-1845.

Title: Administrative files, 1841-1845.

This series consists of Governor Fitzpatrick's administrative files, containing reports, correspondence, financial records, petitions, acts and resolutions. Much of the series is concerned with financial matters in Ala. while other topics covered include publications from other states, the University of Ala., and the state of education in a few of the counties. Included in the miscellaneous subseries is correspondence dealing with the state's unsettled claims on the federal government resulting from the Creek Indian War; a letter from A.P. Bagby asking for aid in helping Mobile recover from two fires and a yellow fever epidemic; letters reporting an outbreak of smallpox in Henry Co.; copies of resolutions from RI, NH, and ME giving opinions on the imprisonment of Thomas W. Dorr in RI; and a copy of the rules and regulations, drafted 1843, governing the Alabama penitentiary. The subseries also contains correspondence with the U.S. Dept. of Treasury discussing money due to Ala. resulting from the sale of public lands. The county subseries consists of reports from twenty-nine counties in the state showing the amount of money raised through taxes; the type of taxes collected; types of expenditures; and to what extent the counties were in debt. The State Bank subseries includes reports from the commissions that were investigating the different branches; correspondence expressing opinions on the bank situation; and copies of legislative acts regarding the bank. Much of the series is concerned with the Mobile Branch Bank.

ArchivalResource: Originals .35 cubic ft. (1 archives box and 4 oversized folders).Copies 2 microfilm reels.

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Alabama. Governor. Correspondence, 1821-1865.

Title: Correspondence, 1821-1865.

This series consists of letterbooks containing copies of letters to and from the Governor, 1821-1849, 1861-1865. Most of the copies are of outgoing letters, though some incoming letters are also included. Some of the letters are routine in nature and may have been written for the Governor by the Secretary of State. Many of the letters concern important administrative decisions or express the opinion of the Governor on controversial subjects. Included are letters of Governors Pickens, G. Moore, S. Moore, Murphy, Gayle, Clay, Bagby, Fitzpatrick, Martin, Chapman, Shorter and Watts. Topics discussed include slavery, public lands, banks and banking, the militia, Indian affairs, internal improvements, surveys of boundary lines with Ga. and Fla., social welfare, state finances, the 1840s war with Mexico and the Civil War. Of particular interest are Gov. Gabriel Moore's views on prison reform, Gov. Gayle's position on the removal of white settlers from Creek Indian lands in 1833, the removal of the Cherokee Indians from the state, Ala.'s participation in the Mexican War, and the Civil War. The bulk of the Governors' incoming correspondence is described in the various series of each Governor's administration. The 1861 Dec. 5-1863 May 12 letters are indexed alphabetically by correspondent's name.

ArchivalResource: Originals ca.3 cubic ft. (8 volumes and 1 archives container).Copies 2 microfilm reels.

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Alabama. Governor (1837-1841 : Bagby). Administrative files, 1829-1841.

Title: Administrative files, 1829-1841.

The Governor is the chief executive of the state whose function is to administer the laws of the state. One of the activities used to accomplish this function is the administering of executive decisions and actions. This series consists of the administrative files of Governor Arthur P. Bagby and contains correspondence, reports, petitions, copies of laws and resolutions, and circulars. Much of the series deals with the state's economic climate, especially the status of the State Banks, and politics in general. The presidential election of 1840, Bagby's reelection in 1839, and the abolition movement figure prominently in much of the political correspondence. Other prominent topics include the vulnerability of the Mt. Vernon Arsenal, improvement of navigation on the Tombigbee River, construction of the state penitentiary at Wetumpka (1839-1841), and various functions and activities at the University of Alabama. At a more specific level, the series contains an 1840 petition from citizens of Escambia County in West Florida requesting annexation to the state of Alabama; petitions and correspondence concerning the passage of a National Bankrupt Law; a letter about sixteenth section land transactions dated 1841; an argument delivered on 1838 March 1 before the state supreme court about dueling; correspondence from Joseph E. Caro regarding the translation of Spanish and French documents in the Mobile County Clerk's office; and correspondence and circulars from Aaron H. Palmer, Director of the American and Foreign Agency, promoting the agency and soliciting to represent the state of Alabama in its European business transactions. Among the correspondents are national figures such as William H. Seward and Daniel Webster, and state figures such as Clement Comer Clay; William R. King; William R. Hallett, a prominent Mobile banker who advised Bagby on economic and political issues; and Basil Manley, the second president of the University of Alabama. Other correspondents include: J.G. Lyon, William B. Norris, William Hale, William Thaddeus Sanford, Reuben Saffold, T.L. Toulmin, and John B. Hogan. Because a large number of Bagby's correspondents resided in Mobile, the affairs of this community are discussed frequently.

ArchivalResource: Copies: 3 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84153178 View

Alabama. Governor (1845-1847 : Martin). Appointments files, 1845-1847.

Title: Appointments files, 1845-1847.

The governor is the chief executive of the state whose function is to administer the laws of the state. One of the activities used to accomplish this function is the appointing of individuals to various state and local offices and the signing of grants and commissions. This series consists of letters and petitions relating to appointments, resignations, commissions, and contested elections. Among the appointments referred to in the records are a request for the appointment of superintendent for the Cahawba Navigation Company; recommendations for individuals to serve as director of the state bank in Mobile, and the appointment of a Commissioner of Deeds for Alabama in South Carolina, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New York, and the District of Columbia. The series also contains several letters regarding the contested election of the clerk of county court in Mobile. Recommendations by Governor Arthur P. Bagby are also present.

ArchivalResource: Originals: 0.1 cubic ft., (2 folders).Copies: 1 microfilm reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80268879 View