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 Death Announcements 1731-1831

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Transcribed bySteve van Dulken

Surname  Pearce    
Rank/ occupation  Colonel & Second in Command    
Unit  India    
Death date  15 Jun 1789    
Place of death  Near Serampore    
Source  Gentleman's Magazine    
Date  1789 Suppl.    
Page number  1209    
Detail  On the river, near Serampore, on his way down to Calcutta, where he was particularly desirous of breathing his last, Colonel Pearce, second in command in India. As he lived respected, he died regretted. His funeral was attended by an amazing concourse of mourners, both European and natives. Earl Cornwallis was one of the supporters of his pall, and shed tears during the whole of the ceremony. He has left 500 rupees a month to his wife (a native) for her life; and the remainder of his fortune, after a few legacies, to an only son now in England, amounting to about £80,000.    
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