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DEATH OF AN AGED BROTHER , a Pensioner ou the Asylum Fund . — Oct . 1 , 1844 . —BROTHER NATHANIEL PEARCE , let . 81 , ' at Topsham , near Exeter . He was initiated , passed , and raised , in the GLOBE LODGE , ( then No . 15 , held at the Crown and Rolls , Chancery Lane , ) in May , 1791 . At the time , he was in very respectable circumstances , and carried on the business of patent wig maker , in New Square , Lincoln ' s-Inn ,
where he was patronized by several judges , and the leading members of the bar . His marriage was unhappy , and he was obliged to separate from his wife . A partner with whom he subsequently connected himself in business , defaulted , and poor Pearce was compelled to leave Lincoln ' s-Inn , in very distressed circumstances , with his two children . His next step was to attend on the performers of Covent Garden theatre , and there appeared some little prospect of amendment in his affairs
, when , in an evil hour ,, he accepted some bills for the celebrated George Frederic Cooke , which , as he could not pay , he was once more driven to seek for change of scene , and engaged as a dresser to the company performing at Worthing , under the direction of the well known Mr . Trotter , with whom he , however , remained only a short time . During this period he endeavoured to be reconciled to his wife , but without effect , for they soon separated again . Some years after he went to Jersey ,
and finding it necessary for his position to have his wife to superintend his family , he once more received her back , and they lived together iu comparative peace until the year 1832 , when the cholera morbus appeared , and caused the most dreadful consternation in the island , upwards of six
hundred persons falling a sacrifice to that disorder . The States ordered that all the English who were not independently settled , should immediately leave the island , and between seven and eight hundred were obliged to comply with this edict . Brother Pearce would have been included , but a friend having guaranteed the States from any expense of the funeral either of himself , wife , or family , he was permitted to remain ; but a considerable part of his furniture was burnt , and the remainder
sold for little or nothing , in consequence of a woman and her daughter having died of cholera in the house . In the year 1837 , his wife died from lingering agony , caused by a scald several years previous . The poor olcl man at length died at Topsham , near Exeter , where his son , a labouring man , resided . He was received as an annuitant of the Aged Masons' Asylum in 1839 , and to his last hour fondly encouraged the hope of being domiciled within the precincts of the temple . Bro . Pearce
, wherever he resided , always spent his time among the Brethren . In 1817 , he was exalted at Exeter . Joined the Sun Lodge , Exmouth , in 1804 , and was Master of it in 182 . 1 . He joined the Farmer ' s Lodge , at Jersey , during his residence there . The truth of his petition , from whence these particulars are extracted , was attested by Bro . the Rev . Dr . Carwithen , the D . G . M . for the province of Devon .
It is frequently our painful duty to record the death of Brethren of rank ancl influence . Our readers will not disdain to peruse the humble annals of a worth y but poor Mason , whose life did not pass without its lesson of utility .
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DEATH OF AN AGED BROTHER , a Pensioner ou the Asylum Fund . — Oct . 1 , 1844 . —BROTHER NATHANIEL PEARCE , let . 81 , ' at Topsham , near Exeter . He was initiated , passed , and raised , in the GLOBE LODGE , ( then No . 15 , held at the Crown and Rolls , Chancery Lane , ) in May , 1791 . At the time , he was in very respectable circumstances , and carried on the business of patent wig maker , in New Square , Lincoln ' s-Inn ,
where he was patronized by several judges , and the leading members of the bar . His marriage was unhappy , and he was obliged to separate from his wife . A partner with whom he subsequently connected himself in business , defaulted , and poor Pearce was compelled to leave Lincoln ' s-Inn , in very distressed circumstances , with his two children . His next step was to attend on the performers of Covent Garden theatre , and there appeared some little prospect of amendment in his affairs
, when , in an evil hour ,, he accepted some bills for the celebrated George Frederic Cooke , which , as he could not pay , he was once more driven to seek for change of scene , and engaged as a dresser to the company performing at Worthing , under the direction of the well known Mr . Trotter , with whom he , however , remained only a short time . During this period he endeavoured to be reconciled to his wife , but without effect , for they soon separated again . Some years after he went to Jersey ,
and finding it necessary for his position to have his wife to superintend his family , he once more received her back , and they lived together iu comparative peace until the year 1832 , when the cholera morbus appeared , and caused the most dreadful consternation in the island , upwards of six
hundred persons falling a sacrifice to that disorder . The States ordered that all the English who were not independently settled , should immediately leave the island , and between seven and eight hundred were obliged to comply with this edict . Brother Pearce would have been included , but a friend having guaranteed the States from any expense of the funeral either of himself , wife , or family , he was permitted to remain ; but a considerable part of his furniture was burnt , and the remainder
sold for little or nothing , in consequence of a woman and her daughter having died of cholera in the house . In the year 1837 , his wife died from lingering agony , caused by a scald several years previous . The poor olcl man at length died at Topsham , near Exeter , where his son , a labouring man , resided . He was received as an annuitant of the Aged Masons' Asylum in 1839 , and to his last hour fondly encouraged the hope of being domiciled within the precincts of the temple . Bro . Pearce
, wherever he resided , always spent his time among the Brethren . In 1817 , he was exalted at Exeter . Joined the Sun Lodge , Exmouth , in 1804 , and was Master of it in 182 . 1 . He joined the Farmer ' s Lodge , at Jersey , during his residence there . The truth of his petition , from whence these particulars are extracted , was attested by Bro . the Rev . Dr . Carwithen , the D . G . M . for the province of Devon .
It is frequently our painful duty to record the death of Brethren of rank ancl influence . Our readers will not disdain to peruse the humble annals of a worth y but poor Mason , whose life did not pass without its lesson of utility .