From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from William Bingham in North Carolina, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, seeking information on Doctor Stuart White, a resident of Bolivar County, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from L. C. Martin in Bolivar County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus offering information about an incident in which an African American was killed by M. Davenport.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Proclamation from Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, offering fifty dollars for the capture of escaped convicts Thomas Lee, Jerry Wyatt, Rafe Phillips, Alex Walker, and Moses Cohen. The proclamation includes physical descriptions of each man.