From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition from Citizens of Holly Springs, Mississippi to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, asking for pardon of George Averman, convicted of assault and battery.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from T. M. Harris to Mississippi Lieutenant Governor A. K. Davis, requesting the remission of forfeiture in the case of twenty-three African American men in Holly Springs, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition from C. H. Campbell to Mississippi Lieutenant Governor A. K. Davis for remission of forfeiture of bond in the case of Paul Eckford.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition from Citizens of Marshall County, Mississippi to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames for the pardon of J. T. Baker, who was convicted of retailing without a license.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition from George B. Myers to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, asking for a pardon for Balys E. Gray, convicted of selling lottery tickets. Pardon is attached.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition from W. S. Featherston to Doctor William M. Compton, superintendent of the Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum, asking Compton to ask Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames for a pardon for Charles Durrell. On the reverse, Compton pens a note dated February 12 referring Featherston's letter to Ames. Included is a note from one of Ames's private secretaries giving a summary of the letter.

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.