John Mercer's land book / John Mercer. 1691-1742.

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John Mercer's land book / John Mercer. 1691-1742.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/8324093

Manuscript of a land book in colonial America, 1691-1742.

330 p. : ill.

Smithsonian Institution. Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 8298440

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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. ...