From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition from J. W. Pierson to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, asking for a pardon of Tobe Brown, convicted of assault and battery with intent to kill.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition from Citizens of Covington County, Mississippi to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, asking for the pardon of Handy Norwood who was convicted of assault with intent to kill.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Legal Document from Mississippi Lieutenant Governor A. K. Davis to the Sheriff of Claiborne County, Mississippi, pardoning John Dunning, who was convicted of assault with intent to kill.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition from Citizens of Lowndes County, Mississippi to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, asking for the pardon of Curtis Jenkins, who was convicted of assault and battery with intent to kill. (Recommendations against pardon by the district attorney and judge in the case included)

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from W. F. Simonton to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, detailing an alleged armed assault against him by the Sheriff of Lee County, Mississippi, in Tupelo, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition from Crawford Johnson to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, asking for a pardon of Crawford Johnson, convicted of assault and battery.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Document from Mississippi Lieutenant Governor A. K. Davis to the Sheriff of Noxubee County, Mississippi, containing a pardon of Crawford Johnson, convicted of assault and battery.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, asking for a pardon of O. P. Owens, convicted of assault and battery with intent to kill.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition from F. Heiderhoff in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames for pardon of William Dunbridge, convicted of assault and battery. Pardon attached.

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. Legal Document from Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames to the Superintendent of the Mississippi State Penitentiary, commuting the sentence of James Lony who was convicted of assault and battery with intent to manslaughter.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Legal Document from Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames to the Superintendent of the Mississippi State Penitentiary, commuting the sentence of Thomas Holderness who was convicted of assault and battery with intent to manslaughter.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition from Citizens of Brookhaven, Mississippi and Lincoln County, Mississippi to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, asking for a pardon of Barbary Johnson, convicted of assault and battery. The pardon is included.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Legal Document from Mississippi Lieutenant Governor A. K. Davis to Superintendent of the State Prison William Noonan, pardoning Louis Wash, who was convicted of assault and attempt to commit rape.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Legal document from Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames to the Superintendent of the Mississippi State Penitentiary, enclosing a commutation of the sentence of David Bennett, who was convicted of assault and battery.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition to Mississippi Lieutenant Governor A. K. Davis, asking for the pardon of William Jefferson, who was convicted of assault and battery with the intent to kill. The pardon is included.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Legal Document from Mississippi Lieutenant Governor A. K. Davis to the Superintendent of the Mississippi State Penitentiary, containing the pardon of Mana Smith, who was convicted of assault and battery with the intent to kill.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from J. A. Orr to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, asking for Ames' help for a deaf mute who was indicted for assault and battery with intent to murder.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Indictment of H. W. Shaw by the grand jury of Monroe County, Mississippi, for assault and battery with the intent to murder. This indictment bill is written by J. A. Blair, district attorney.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from C. W. Loomis, superintendent of the Mississippi State Penitentiary, to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, informing Ames of the release of three inmates whose sentences were commuted. Included is a note from Fred. Barrett, Ames's private secretary, giving a summary of Loomis's letter.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Order from Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames to sheriff of Copiah County, Mississippi, staying the execution of the forfeiture of a bond for A. B. Evans.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Legal document from Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames to C. W. Loomis, superintendent of the Mississippi State Penitentiary, commuting the sentence of Alexander Hines.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from William Noonan, superintendent of the Mississippi State Penitentiary, to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, informing Ames of the release of two inmates whose time has been served. Included is a note from I. N. Osborn, Ames's private secretary, giving a summary of Noonan's letter. (The date on Noonan's letter appears to be January 2, 1874, but Osborn's note gives the date as January 2, 1875. The latter date is most likely correct as Noonan's letter refers to the inmates' sentences expiring "during this month", and then lists the dates of expiration as January 10 and January 11, 1875).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Several reports from county circuit clerks from various counties in Mississippi tabulating the number of persons, broken down by race, brought into court.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Report from P. B. Starke, Thos. W. Stinger, and T. J. Mitchell, members of a committee appointed to assess the affairs of the Mississippi State Penitentiary, to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, containing the results of the committee's investigation into the condition of the penitentiary - including plantations leased by the penitentiary where some convicted persons, mostly African Americans, are made to perform labor - and its inmates. There are several pages of information concerning some inmates needing medical attention, some inmates whom the committee believed were improperly convicted, and recommended pardons or commutations of sentences. Appended are additional "special reports" concerning particular cases and persons.