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Mercer, John Francis, 1759-1821 (43)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67x74js (person)

John Francis Mercer (May 17, 1759 – August 30, 1821) was an American lawyer, planter, and politician from Virginia and Maryland, who served as Maryland's 10th governor, as well as a member in the Continental Congress, the Virginia House of Delegates, the U.S. House of Representatives, and Maryland State Assembly. Born at Marlborough plantation in Stafford County in the Colony of Virginia, Mercer received his education at home from private teachers before attending the College of William and...

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Mercer, John, 1704-1768 (15)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63498zd (person)

Born in Dublin, Ireland, John Mercer came to Virginia in 1720 where he built the colonial estate Marlborough (also called Marlboro; at Marlborough Point on the Potomac River, in Stafford County). He was a leading Virginia attorney and lawyer to George Washington, as well as a colonial prosecutor for the King's court of Virginia. Mercer was also a founding member, secretary and general counsel of the Ohio Company of Virginia, a land speculating company that had George Washington as a member....

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Langston, John Mercer, 1829-1897 (21)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6v707ct (person)

John Mercer Langston (December 14, 1829 – November 15, 1897) was an American abolitionist, attorney, educator, activist, diplomat, and politician. An African American, he became the first dean of the law school at Howard University and helped create the department. He was the first president of what is now Virginia State University, a historically black college. Born free in Virginia to a freedwoman of mixed race and a white planter father, in 1888 Langston was elected to the U.S. Congress a...

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Brooke, John M. (John Mercer), 1826-1906 (13)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62z17nw (person)

John Mercer Brooke was a U.S. and Confederate naval officer, scientist, inventor, and professor at Virginia Military Institute. John Mercer Brooke was a United States and Confederate naval officer, scientist, inventor, and professor at Virginia Military Institute.

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Patton, John M. (John Mercer), 1797-1858 (11)

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Mercer, John (3)

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Epithet: of Egerton Ch 7469

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Mercer, John, 1818-1860 (3)

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Mercer, John, 1788-1848 (3)

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Neave, John, mercer. (2)

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Mercer, John, 1772-1817 (2)

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