Letters: London, to James Mercer and George Mason, 1771.

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Letters: London, to James Mercer and George Mason, 1771.

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George Mercer writes to his brother James on 27 March 1771 about having sent doves, canary birds, and goldfinches, bird seed, equipment, and instructions for their care, breeding, and housing. He has other livestock to ship as well. Mercer contemplates not marrying, complains that Mr. Hamilton has not paid him and promises to write more later. George Mercer writes to Col George Mason, Treasurer of the Ohio Company, on 8 August 1771 complaining of the lack of instructions or pay from the Ohio Company as their agent since 3 July 1763.

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Mercer, James, 1736-1793

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James Mercer (February 26, 1736 – October 31, 1793), was an American lawyer, military officer, planter, jurist, and politician. Born at his family's Marlborough plantation in Stafford County in the Colony of Virginia, Mercer received a private education suitable as well as access to his father's library, if not the best, then one of the best in the area. Mercer traveled to Williamsburg for higher education under prominent lawyer George Wythe and others, and graduated from the College of Willi...

Mason, George, 1725-1792

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George Mason IV (December 11, 1725 [O.S. November 30, 1725] – October 7, 1792) was an American planter, politician and delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787, one of three delegates who refused to sign the Constitution. His writings, including substantial portions of the Fairfax Resolves of 1774, the Virginia Declaration of Rights of 1776, and his Objections to this Constitution of Government (1787) opposing ratification, have exercised a significant influence on American politic...

Ohio Company (1747-1779)

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The Ohio Company, founded in 1747, represented the trading and land prospecting interests of a handful of Virginia planters. Thomas Lee was appointed president, Nathaniel Chapman served as treasurer, and John Mercer was both secretary and general council. In that year, John Mercer's son, George Mercer, was appointed the company's representative in England. In 1748 the British Crown approved a land grant to the company to be administered by the Colony of Virginia. The grant covered the Ohio terri...

Mercer, George, 1733-1784.

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The Ohio Land Company of Virginia, organized by Thomas Lee, Lawrence Washington, George Fairfax and others, and later joined by John Mercer, George Mason, Robert Dinwiddie and others, petitioned the British government for a grant of 500,000 acres in the Ohio area between the mouth of the Monongahela and Kentucky rivers, including the area known as Kentucky. It fostered the exploration and settlement of Kentucky. George Mason (1725-1792) was admitted to a full partnership...