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1772-1798 Spotsylvania County, Virginia Will Book E; [William Armstrong Crozier]; MERCER, JAMES, Fredericksburg, d. May 23, 1791, Page Feb. 3, 1795.
Administrators John T. Brooke, James M. Garnett.
Leg. whole estate, both real and personal, unto my worthy friends and relations Mr. Muscoe Garnett of Essex Co., and Mr. Benjamin Harrison of the City of Richmond, and I also appoint them sole executors of this will upon Trust, and upon the terms and conditions hereinafter mentioned, etc.
1st. for the payment of my just debts and the maintenance and education of my four children and my niece Martha Mercer, and
secondly for the use of my said children and niece to the devises of my will. Lots and houses in town and lands not now worked to be sold if necessary.
Daughter Mary Eleanor Dick Mercer, one thousand pounds;
daughter Lucinda Mercer, three hundred pounds;
niece Martha Mercer;
son Charles Fenton Mercer, one moiety of my Bull Run land, containing about 300 acres;
son John Fenton Mercer;
devise to Muscoe Garnett and Benjamin Harrison every right and power that I have or can have to fulfill the wills of the late Alexander Dick and Charles Dick, and also the Trusts reposed in me by the Act of Assembly respecting my late brother George Mercer;
guardianship of my daughter Mary to my sister Mrs. Selden;
guardianship of my two sons to Mr. Garnett and Mr. Harrison.
Codicil dated May 26, 1791, my gold repeating watch to my eldest son, it being a family watch.
Mentions sons John Fenton Mercer, Charles Fenton Mercer and daughter Mary Eleanor Mercer. Page 1425)
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https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-08-02-0178
Deed to James Mercer
[13 Oct. 1769]. “This Indenture made the Thirteenth Day of October in the year 1769 Between George Washington of the County of Fairfax Esqr. and Martha his wife of the one part and James Mercer of The Town of Fredericksburg in the County of Spotsylvania attorney at Law of the other part Witnesseth That the said George Washington and Martha his wife for and in Consideration of the sum of Fifty pounds to the said George in hand paid by the said James Mercer Have . . . sold . . . unto the said James Mercer his heirs and Assigns forever all those two Lotts of Land situate lying and being in the said Town of Fredericksburg whereon the said Mercer’s Kitchen now Stands and Extending down the hill to contain one acre next to and adjoining to, two other Lotts bought by the said Mercer of Fielding Lewis Esqr. . .
the deed was witnessed by Charles Dick, Charles Washington, and John Lithgow and was proved in the Spotsylvania County court, 5 Dec. 1769. GW’s receipt for £50 from James Mercer is dated 13 Oct. 1769. The two lots conveyed to Mercer in this deed were lots no. 111 and 113, mistakenly deeded to GW by Fielding Lewis in 1761. Lewis had later sold the two lots to Mercer but failed to send him the deeds. For Fielding Lewis’s errors in conveying the Fredericksburg lots and the measures resorted to for correcting the errors
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1766-1771 Spotsylvania County, Virginia Deed Book G; [William Armstrong Crozier];
Octr. 13, 1769. George Washington of Fairfax Co., Esqr., and Martha, his wife, to James Mercer of Fredksbg,., Attorney-at-Law. £50. Two lots in town of Fredksbg. adjoining the two lots purchased by sd. Mercer of Fielding Lewis, Esqr., etc. Witnesses, Chs. Dick, Chs. Washington, John Lithgow. Decr. 5, 1769.
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1771-1774 Spotsylvania County, Virginia Deed Book H; [William Armstrong Crozier];
June 3, 1772. James Mercer, of Spts. Co., Esqr., and Charles Dick, of same Co., Esqr. Whereas, a marriage is shortly intended to be solemnized between the sd. James Mercer and Eleanor Dick, daughter of sd. Charles Dick, who is under age, and whereas, sd Mercer stands seized of a considerable estate of land, slaves, etc., etc. Marriage settlement. Witnesses, Samuel Selden, Alexr. Dick, Francis Taliaferro, Chs. Simms. No date of Record.
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1766-1771 Spotsylvania County, Virginia Deed Book G; [William Armstrong Crozier];
April 16, 1772. Francis Purvis, of Caroline Co., and Mary, his wife, to James Mercer, of Spts. Co., Esqr. £112 16s. curr. Tract of land in St. Geo. Par., Spts. Co., lately bought by sd. Purvis of Col. Wm. Champe. Witnesses, La. Campbell, Geo. Muir, Charles Simms, Wm. Wiatt. No date
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1771-1774 Spotsylvania County, Virginia Deed Book H; [William Armstrong Crozier];
Feby. 10, 1773. James Mercer of Spts. Co. to John Thornton, Charles Dick, Fielding Lewis, Lewis Willis, James Allan, James Hunter, Chas. Yates, and Chas. Washington, Gentlemen, Trustees, of Fredksbg. £695. Mortgage. Whereas, sd. Mercer in the month of May or June last being seized of ten lots in town of Fredksbg. and 744 a. of land near the sd. town, and other lands which sd. Mercer intended soon to dispose of, etc., etc. Mentions his agreement with Chas. Dick, relative to sd. Mercer's intermarriage with sd. Dick's daughter, etc., etc. Sd. Mercer mortgages to the sd. Trustees all. sd. Mercer's right, title and interest in the sd. 10 lots and the tract of 740 a. in and near the town of Fredksbg., also several slaves, etc. Witnesses, Ch. Simms, Geo. Muir, Benj. Grymes, jr.; B. Johnston, Wm. Wiatt. March 19, 1773.
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1771-1774 Spotsylvania County, Virginia Deed Book H; [William Armstrong Crozier];
Feby. 28, 1773. James Mercer of Spts. Co. to Muscoe Garnett of Essex Co., Esqr. Mortgage. In consideration of sd. Garnett being sd. Mercer's security on a bond to John Hessline of the province of Md., and also sd. Garnett, abt. the year 1769, having become security for Mrs. Ann Mercer, late of Stafford Co., in a bond payable to Mrs. Ann Tasker of the province of Md. "Mentions, Col. Geo. Mercer, then at London." Mortgages 36 slaves, etc. Sd. James Mercer mentions himself as sole executor of Mrs. Ann Mercer, etc, Witness, Chs. Simms. March 19, 1773.
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1771-1774 Spotsylvania County, Virginia Deed Book H; [William Armstrong Crozier];
Jany. 23, 1773. Samuel Fox of Fauquier Co. to John Welch of Fredksbg. Lease. 50 a. of land joining land of James Mercer, abt. 2 miles from Fredksbg., in Spts. Co. £6 curr. yearly. Nicholas Smith, Philemon Noakes, Bartho. Barrett. March 19, 1773.
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1774-1782 Spotsylvania County, Virginia Deed Book J; [William Armstrong Crozier];
Feby. 5, 1782. Wm. Daingerfield of Spts. Co., Esqr., and Sarah, his wife, to James Mercer of same County, Esqr. £1000 ster. 1300 a. on Snow Creek in Spts. and Caroline Counties, inherited by sd. Sarah, from her father, Lawrence Taliaferro, and her grandfather, John Taliaferro, late of Spts. Co., Decd., etc. Mann Page, James Taylor, Wm. Smith. May 16, 1782.
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1774-1782 Spotsylvania County, Virginia Deed Book J; [William Armstrong Crozier];
March 1, 1782. James Mercer of Spts. Co., Esqr., to Wm. Daingerfield of same county, Esqr. £1000 [as in preceding deed, etc.]. Witnesses, Wm. McWilliams, John Lewis, Thomas Brown, James Maury, Sam Roddy, Jno. Welch, Zacharias Lucas. May 16, 1782.
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Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties
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