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PENSION CLAIMS ABSTRACTED FROM JOSHUA PEARCE'S PENSION PAPERS

Pension No. 6794                                        S. 39004

Joshua PEARCE of Washington Co TN on 26 June 1818 after being duly sworn before 
recruit Judges states that he lived in Maryland during the Revolutionary War. He 
volunteered in or about May 1777 in 1st Regiment of the Maryland line under Captain 
Roxburgh and Colonel Stone and continued in said Regiment and company until close 
of the war, pensioned for six years.   Was in battles of Brandywine, Germantown,  
Long Island and many others, that he is now sixty-three years of age.  He is now a 
resident of Sullivan Co TN for 15 years, he has lived in the state of Tennessee for more 
than twenty years.   Joseph Britten swears he was a lieutenant in the same Maryland
 line and saw Joshua Pearce preforming service. In 1820 Joshua Pearce states that by 
 occupation he is a joiner and that he had a wife and three children, his wife departed 
 this life last April, and his three children are all age and married off, and he has no 
 family but himself.  In 1939 a Mrs. McCallister Pearce of West Memphis Arkansas 
 was ordering pension records.