Person:Jeremiah Pearce (10)

The children of this Jeremiah Pearce/Pierce/Peirce are usually attributed to Jeremiah Pearce and Deborah Brouwer, but it appears that these were 2 separate families - one that lived in New Jersey and one that lived in Virginia around 1765 and probably moved (to North Carolina, Kentucky or Tennessee) around 1780^[2] (see the page of son James, which states that he was born in Virginia, but has conflicting information about where he lived after that).

'According [to] the James Matthew's book Pearce, Bartlett, Matthews, Smart and Allied families, Jeremiah was a good friend to Nicholas Bartlett and three of the Bartlett daughters married three of the Pearce brothers. One other Bartlett daughter married a cousin who was also a Pearce. He [presumably meaning Jeremiah Pearce] served in the French and Indian War 1758-1763 and was given a Virginia land grant by the King of England.'^[3]

1. ↑ RootsWeb WorldConnect (tree of Dirk Brower).

   citing Homesteaders Newsletter, where the information was applied to Jeremiah Pearce of New Jersey, husband of Deborah Brouwer.

   It is assumed that this death date does not apply to the husband of Deborah Brouwer, who likely remained in New Jersey, but to the Jeremiah Peirce who left Virginia probably sometime around 1780.

2. ↑ Dorman, John Frederick, ed. The Virginia Genealogist. (Washington, District of Columbia: Dorman, John Frederick)
   26:51-52.

   'Jeremiah Peirce. £112.8.5. During the Revolution an act passed the Legislature of this state authorizing all persons indebted to British merchants to make payments in paper money into the Treasury, which payment was to extinguish the debt. This debtor availed himself of the law soon after which he removed with all his property out of the state.'

3. ↑ RootsWeb WorldConnect (tree of Dirk Brower).
4. ↑ Birth year estimated based on approx. birth years of his children, and on the likelihood that he was the Jeremiah Pearce/Pierce who served in the French and Indian War 1758-1763.