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When the frontier reri-dcd farther westward fron the Appalachian Mountains., pioneers froai the ewtarn stales sought ncw<hOKes? Sosjc of ther.; settled along the eastern banks of the Mississippi Kiver, and the
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southern part was organized into tho '>tats of Mississippi ia 1817?? j The
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state was divided into large counties, aiid later they were subdivided.
In 1872 people of the 3 out hem wart of the state decided to
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organize another county, between Marion said Hancock, taking a part cf v.
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each county to r.iake a new one- The land selected for the new county was * inhabited by a tribe of Indians calle*d Caesur after their chief, iC-'P-the white inhabitants came from Virginia and Worth Carolina, their euces-
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tors being from the British Isles*
The county -.'/as or^p.nised by an act of the Legislature in. 18720 The name chosen for the new county was "Pearl?, after the river which was at that time a boundary lies between the county and the state of Louisiana. The county offiocm were appointed. by Governor Robert Lowry-
The history of Fc-nrl County only covers a brief period of years, The courthouse was a Masonic building, near Jcarl River, called Byrd?s Chapels It v/as burned a short ti^c after the CoTsity?s organisation, and the important records, p^pfcr;; %2:d historical data was destroyed.
D;i the act of the	Legislature in 1873, 111 earl? County was
abolished and it went back i:o its rosvyjctive counties, because of financial
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reasons.. Hancock arid Darien --.-ere in debt when tcarl County v/as organized
and it had to share part of the debt., which it could uot tr.eet; for there was
only o:;e 3s nd owner, ?i'oplar,? Jir.i Smith, who paid an Indian ter. bushels of
corn for his claim.. The bn lories of the lari was public.,
Mari on Connty ''"as divided into two districts,. vi th Columbia and
Purvis, as comity seats., thus the northern part of the abolished rearl County
was in the eastern district with lurvis as county seato
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