Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris (Author did not include the pension of Thomas Pearson in this volume of work, but the index shows his name was mentioned in the pension application of William Griffin as a person who could verify the information he supplied.  This pension was found at the amazing website listing all Revolutionary War pensions:  http://revwarapps.org/)

To the Hon’ble the Senate and house of Representatives of the United States in Congress
assembled. – the petition of Thomas Pearson humbly sheweth, that your Petitioner in the year
1777 entered into the service of the United States in the character of ensign, and was, shortly
afterwards, promoted to the office of Lieutenant, in which capacity he acted, during the war –
that your petitioner under the command of Col. Abraham Buford, in an engagement with the
British on the 29 day of May 1780 at the Waxhaws in South Carolina received a number of
wounds by which he has, ever since been greatly disabled, and altogether disqualified for any
laborious employment, which will fully appear by authentic documents now in the war office. –
That, after the conclusion of the war, your petitioner moved to the district, now State of
Kentucky, where he has ever since resided, and tho’ your hon’ble body at an early period after
the peace made provision for those officers and Soldiers, who were unfortunately disabled by
wounds received in the service of their country, yet your petitioner, from the remoteness of
his situation from the seat of the general government and from the private & retired manner
in which he lived, never received any information of such provision having been made untill
the Spring of the year 1803, and therefore could not have made application to be placed on the
pension list earlier than he did, which was on the 23 day october following– Your petitioner
therefore under the firm persuasion that there is disposition in your Hon’ble body to do
ample justice to those who shed their blood in defence of the liberties of their country, humbly
prays that his application may have a retrospect to the first provision that was made, & that he
may be permitted to derive that advantage from the benignity of the government, which,
nothing but his remoteness & consequent ignorance prevented him from attaining at the
earliest possible period. & your petitioner as in duty bound will ever pray.
[signed] Thomas Pearson. Nov 15 1808

NOTE:  A typed summary adds that Pearson served as lieutenant in Captain Thomas Hord’s
company in Colonels Edward Stevens’s and John Green’s 10 Virginia Regiment, and that in spite of his wounds, he served until the close of the war.  He was living in Jefferson County KY
at the time of his petition, and he died 10 July 1826.