From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Petition from Sarah Garrett at Canton, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, asking that she be pardoned for her crime of allowing enslaved persons to trade as freemen.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from District Attorney G. C. Chandler to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, asking that a fine against Elisha Bodford for permitting an enslaved boy named Ike to trade as a free person be waived.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Copy of letter from F. S. Blount at Jackson, Mississippi, to John Cowden, asking for help to obtain enslaved laborers to build fortifications at Mobile, Alabama. (This document is the enclosed copy of an order mentioned in mdah_768-949-03-33).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Petition from Lambert Moore, a formerly enslaved person, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey protesting having to pay taxes on money earned while he was an enslaved person.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Petition from Sarah Garrett to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark asking that she be pardoned for her alleged crime of allowing enslaved people to trade as freemen.