From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from Mississippi Secretary of State James Lynch to Mississippi Lieutenant Governor Ridgley Ceylon Powers, containing a notice that F. W. Blackwell has declined his appointment to the office of Justice of the Peace in Scott County, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Report from Secretary of the Mississippi State Senate Murray Peyton to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn confirming county officers from Madison, Newton, Hinds, Sunflower, Harrison, Bolivar, Alcorn, Yalobusha and Kemper Counties, Mississippi.