Richard Pursel (1752-?)
MSA SC 3520-17328
Sources:
Archival Sources:
Journal and Correspondence of the Council of Maryland, 1781, Archives of Maryland Online Vol. 47.
Maryland State Papers, Red Books, List of Regular Officers by Chamberlaine, December 1776, MdHR 4573, Liber 12, p. 66 [MSA S989-17, 1/6/4/5].
Maryland State Papers, Revolutionary Papers, Descriptions of men in Capt. Edward Veazey’s Independent Comp, 1776, MdHR 19970-15-36/01 [MSA S997-15-36, 1/7/3/13].
Revolutionary War Rolls, NARA M246, p. 92, From Fold3.com.
Published Sources:
Alexander, Arthur. How Maryland Tried to Raise Her Continential Quotas. Maryland Historical Magazine 42, no. 3 (1947). 184-196.
"Mortuary Notice," Salem Gazette, Salem, Massachusetts, March 1, 1833, Vol. XI, issue 18, p. 3.
Tacyn, Mark Andrew. “'To the End:’ The First Maryland Regiment and the American Revolution” (PhD diss., University of Maryland College Park, 1999).
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