From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Bonds of G. W. Humphreys, D. G. Humphreys, and B. Humphreys, given by said persons for their work as sureties or as state agents to dispense liquors in Claiborne County, Mississippi. The bonds are witnessed by Thomas Y. Berry, justice of the peace.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from James R. Challere at Cincinnati, Ohio, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking if it would be safe for Hannah Berry - a formerly enslaved African-American woman - and her children, who were fathered by a slaveholder, to return to Mississippi. Challere also asks whether African Americans can legally hold property, and encourages Sharkey to obtain "160, 200, or 300" acres of land on which Hannah Berry and her children could live and work.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Thomas Y. Berry at Port Gibson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, requesting an appointment to a state job as he has been "completely stript and peeled by the Civil War." Berry requests a job that will not require him to be away from his family too much. Though he is a loyal Unionist, Berry admits to accepting a tax assessor position in Claiborne County, Mississippi, under the Confederate government out of desperation. Berry has previously accepted a position as district attorney for Claiborne County offered by General Foote to replace D. O. Merwin. Berry lists several people as references.