Hugh Tennant Mercer
(1776-1853)
BIRTH
August 5, 1776
PLACE
Fredericksburg, Virginia, U.S.
DEATH
December 1, 1853
PLACE
Fredericksburg, Virginia, U.S.
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Hugh Tennent Mercer, born in 1776, was the youngest son of General Hugh Mercer and Isabella Gordon. His public life centered on Fredericksburg, Virginia. He served St. George’s Church as a vestryman, warden and trustee, helping raise funds for a new church in the 1810s. He also supported local schools, directed a bank and helped organize Lafayette’s 1824 visit. Church histories record his service and death in 1853. His middle name appears in several spellings.
EARLY LIFE
Hugh Tennant Mercer was born on Aug 5, 1776. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Hugh Tennant Mercer is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Hugh Tennant Mercer died on Dec 1, 1853. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Hugh Tennant Mercer died on Dec 1, 1853, in Fredericksburg, Virginia, U.S. Hugh Tennent Mercer, born in 1776, was the youngest son of General Hugh Mercer and Isabella Gordon. His public life centered on Fredericksburg, Virginia. He served St. George’s Church as a vestryman, warden and trustee, helping raise funds for a new church in the 1810s. He also supported local schools, directed a bank and helped organize Lafayette’s 1824 visit. Church histories record his service and death in 1853. His middle name appears in several spellings. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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