”Convention, Pearl River.

Judge Harry Toulmin, of Fort Stoddert, wrote to Nathaniel A. Ware, Territorial secretary, August 19, 1816, regarding a publication he had seen of “resolutions entered into in Clarke county for electing a delegate and recommending it to other counties to elect delegates to meet at Mr. Ford’s on Pearl river on the last Monday of October, for the purpose of adopting such measures as in their opinion will hasten our admission into the union and prevent division.”

Reference Data:

Encyclopedia of Mississippi History, Vol. 1, by Dunbar Rowland, 1907, page 650