Papers of Charles Fenton Mercer [manuscript], 1810-1856.

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Papers of Charles Fenton Mercer [manuscript], 1810-1856.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647891379

The collection contains letters from Mercer to John Janney, Addison H. Clark and an unidentifed recipient pertaining to a claim on the estate of Matthew Harrison, a pension request of an old soldier, his Loudoun County, Va., boundary dispute with Peter and Nathan Skinner, and personal business in Clarksburg. He discusses national politics including the election of 1856, slavery, emancipation and the Chesapeake and Ohio canal. Letters and documents, 1836-1855, of Mercer, John Janney, and Richard H. Henderson pertain to the boundary dispute between Mercer and Peter and Nathan Skinner.

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University of Virginia. Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7924197

University of Virginia. Library

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Clark, Addison H.,

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Harrison, Matthew, 1960-

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Henderson, Richard H., active 1822

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Mercer, Charles Fenton, 1778-1858

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U.S. representative from Virginia; president of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company. From the description of Papers of Charles Fenton Mercer [manuscript], 1810-1856. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647891379 State legislator and U.S. representative from Virginia. From the description of Papers, 1816-1854. (New Jersey Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70954784 Charles Fenton Mercer (1778-1858), was the son of James Mercer, j...

Janney, John, 1798-1872

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On November 8, 1798, John Janney was born in Alexandria, Virginia, to Elisha and Mary Janney. The Janneys were members of the religious denomination of Friends or Quakers. Janney obtained little formal education, instead going to work at his father's mill. He later left the mill to study law, and at the age of eighteen, he entered the Bar in Loudoun County. On January 26, 1826, Janney married Alcinda (Alice) Marmaduke. When separated, they wrote almost daily letters to one another. ...