Skinner, Joshua

Letter from J. Allen Ross to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames; February 18, 1874

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from J. Allen Ross to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, asking Ames to veto a bill proposing to establish a city court in Greenville, Mississippi. Included is a note from Fred. Barrett, Ames's private secretary, giving a summary of Ross's letter.

Petition to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames; July 16, 1874

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, for pardon of George Stuart, convicted of murder. Pardon included.

Petition to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames; December 19, 1874

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames for pardon of B. D. McGowan who was convicted of aiding the escape of a convict.

Petition to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames; June 28, 1875

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames to appoint Henry Garner as Justice of the Peace of Washington County, Mississippi.

Letter from Clarence Huggins to Mississippi Governor Ridgley C. Powers; December 6, 1873

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Powers Collection. Letter from Clarence Huggins to Mississippi Governor Ridgley C. Powers informing the formation of a group of locals desiring to become part of the State Militia from the Greenville, Mississippi area.

Letter from Phelps and Skinner to Mississippi Governor John M. Stone; May 9, 1876

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Stone Collection. Letter from Phelps and Skinner, a law firm in Greenville, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John M. Stone, asking Stone to request extradition of T. P. Van Sant, who was charged with murder and fled to the state of Ohio.