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UCATION: literate. RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION: An-
glican; St. Stephen's church, North Sassafras Par-
ish, Cecil County. OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE.
planter. PUBLIC CAREER. LEGISLATIVE SERVICE:
Lower House, Cecil County, 1739-1741 (elected
to the Convention of the 1739-1741 Assembly to
fill vacancy), 1742-1744, 1745, 1745/46-1748, 1749
(election voided on June 6, 1749, during the 1st
session of the 1749-1751 Assembly, when the
Lower House judged that the election of the Cecil
County delegates was invalid), 1751-1754. LO-
CAL OFFICES: justice, Cecil County Court, ap-
pointed November 8, 1720, reappointed every year
through 1733 (quorum 1727, 1731, 1732, 1733);
justice, Court of Oyer, Terminer, and Gaol De-
livery, appointed August 8, 1721; coroner, Cecil
County, appointed June 9, 1740, February 20,
1747; churchwarden and vestryman, North Sas-
safras Parish, Cecil County, 1745-1749, 1752-
1754. MILITARY SERVICE: captain, 1749. WEALTH
DURING LIFETIME. LAND AT FIRST ELECTION: ca.
2,400 acres in Cecil County (380 acres inherited
from his father and 1,400 acres through mar-
riage). SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN LAND BETWEEN
FIRST ELECTION AND DEATH: acquired 1,627 acres
in Cecil County between 1739 and 1749; leased
out 250 acres and three tracts of unspecified
acreage, all in Cecil County, between 1739 and
1752. WEALTH AT DEATH. DIED. OH April 10, 1756,
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; will probated in
Cecil County. PERSONAL PROPERTY: TEV, £870.6.0
current money (including 8 slaves); FB, £706.16.10.
LAND ca. 4,000 acres in Cecil County.
PEARCE, DANIEL (1677-1727). BORN: in Cecil
County in 1677; eldest son. NATIVE, second gen-
eration. RESIDED: in Cecil County; Kent County.
FAMILY BACKGROUND. FATHER: William Pearce (ca.
1641-1720/21). MOTHER: Isabella. BROTHERS:
Gideon (1678-1751); William (?-1703); and
Benjamin (ca. 1683-1734). SISTERS: Isabella, who
married first, William Blay (ca. 1681-1716); Eliz-
abeth, who married Henry Ward (?-1734); Sarah;
and Mary. NIECE: Rachel Blay (1703-1746), who
married first, Edward Scott (?-1725), and third,
Aquila Paca (ca. 1703-1743/44). MARRIED Mary,
widow of Isaac Caulk. CHILDREN. SON: Andrew.
DAUGHTERS: Sarah, who married George, son of
Hans Hanson (ca. 1647-1704); Isabella, who
married Thomas Hynson. PRIVATE CAREER. ED-
UCATION: literate. RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION: An-
glican, Shrewsbury Parish, Kent County. SOCIAL
STATUS AND ACTIVITIES second generation bur-
gess; no record of any judicial service; won elec-
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tion unanimously to the Lower House in two elec-
tions in 1708, but was defeated in 1715/16.
OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE: planter. PUBLIC CAREER.
LEGISLATIVE SERVICE: Lower House, Kent
County, 1708A, 1708B-1711, 1712-1714. LOCAL
OFFICES: riding surveyor for Bohemia and Sas-
safras, Cecil County, 1695/96-1697 ; clerk of Cecil
County, 1698-1702; Shrewsbury Parish Vestry,
Kent County, 1718-1723. MILITARY SERVICE:
captain, by 1718-1727. WEALTH DURING LIFETIME.
LAND AT FIRST ELECTION: at least 300 acres in
Kent County. SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN LAND BE-
TWEEN FIRST ELECTION AND DEATH: purchased Ca.
1,024 acres in Kent County. WEALTH AT DEATH.
DIED: in December 1727 in Kent County. PER-
SONAL PROPERTY: TEV, £770.6.0 (including 23
slaves and 23 horses); FB, £412.16.11. LAND: 1,040
acres in Kent County, plus four tracts of unknown
size.
PEARCE, JAMES (?-1802). BORN: in Shrews-
bury Parish, Kent County; of age by 1751; eldest
son. NATIVE: third generation. RESIDED: at
"Colchester," Shrewsbury Parish, Kent County.
FAMILY BACKGROUND. FATHER: Gideon Pearce
(1678-1751), Gent., literate, son of William Pearce
(ca. 1641-1720/21). MOTHER: Ann, who was still
living in 1751. BROTHERS: George; David; An-
drew; Nathaniel; and Gideon (?-1745), who
married Beatrice (Batrice), daughter of St. Leger
Codd (?-1730). SISTERS: Mary; Isabella; Sarah,
who married (first name unknown) Kennard; and
Elizabeth, who married (first name unknown)
Scott. MARRIED on August 7, 1771, Catherine Su-
sannah Shannon. CHILDREN. SONS: James; Gid-
eon; and William. DAUGHTERS. Elizabeth; Ann;
Catherine; and Isabella (1772-?), who married
(first name unknown) Freeman. PRIVATE CAREER.
EDUCATION: literate. RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION:
Anglican, Shrewsbury Parish, Kent County. SO-
CIAL STATUS AND ACTIVITIES: Gent. , by 1763. OC-
CUPATIONAL PROFILE: farmer. PUBLIC CAREER.
LEGISLATIVE SERVICE: Lower House, Kent
County, 1782-1783, 1785. LOCAL OFFICES:
churchwarden, Shrewsbury Parish, Kent County,
1756, 1788; Shrewsbury Parish Vestry, Kent
County, 1766, 1776, 1788, 1789, 1791-1793; jus-
tice. Kent County, 1760, 1762-1764, 1774 (quo-
rum, 1764); commissioner of the tax, Kent County,
1777, 1778, 1779, 1781. STANDS ON PUBLIC/PRI-
VATE ISSUES, in his will he manumitted one male
slave and conveyed one acre of land to him.
WEALTH DURING LIFETIME. PERSONAL PROPERTY:
assessed value £1,595.0.0, including 14 slaves and
640
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