JAMES PEARCE - A MORMON SHOOTER AND CLUBBER. In September 1857,
eighteen-year-old Pearce was a private in one of the platoons in his father's (Harrison Pearce) company, Company I.
The 1859 arrest warrant listed Harrison Pierce but not James. In 1875 during the first trial of John D. Lee, James Pearce was among several dozen witnesses who testified. Pearce identified several militiamen in their party.