List of books from the library of "Marlborough" h[manuscript].

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List of books from the library of "Marlborough" h[manuscript].

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A typed ist of books from the Stafford County, Va., residence of Virginia lawyer John Mercer, taken from ledger in the Bucks County [Pa.?] Historical Society. Most are law books. Other categories include classics, divinity, history, husbandry, miscellanies (including Swift and Pope), philosophy and mathematics, medicine and surgery, plays and poetry.

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Mercer, John, 1704-1768

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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. ...