From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames for the pardon of Louisa Hill who was convicted of attempted manslaughter.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition from Lucinda Brookshire and others to Mississippi Lieutenant Governor A. K. Davis, for pardon of Henry Herron, who was convicted of bigamy. Pardon included.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Robert S. Hudson at Yazoo City, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, concerning the pardon of William J. B. Ellington.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Major C. C. Shackleford and other petitioners in Madison County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, requesting executive clemency for Samuel Vanvactor, a formerly enslaved African-American man convicted of "unlawful cohabitation."