John Mercer
BIRTH
Feb 6, 1704
Dublin, Ireland
DEATH
October 14, 1768
Stafford County, Virginia
FAMILY
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Mercer, John
(1704-1768)
John Mercer was a prominent colonial Virginia lawyer, legal writer, and planter. His legal scholarship and political service influenced Revolutionary-era Virginia, while several of his children became active in military and public affairs.
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BROTHER
George Mercer
(1733-1784)
BROTHER
James Mercer
(1738-1793)
SISTER
Anna Harrison
(1775-1864)
WIFE
Catherine Mercer
(1707-1750)
WIFE
Ann Roy
(1729-1770)
Sarah Anne Mason Selden
Grace Fenton Garnett
(1751-1814)
George Mercer
(1733-1784)
John Francis Mercer
(1759-1821)
James Mercer
(1738-1793)
Anna Harrison
(1775-1864)
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DIED:
Stafford County, Virginia
Oct 14, 1768
John Mercer was born on Feb 6, 1704 in Dublin, Ireland. 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.
The available biographical record identifies John Mercer with work or public activity as a lawyer, planter, writer. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. John Mercer died on Oct 14, 1768 in Stafford County, Virginia. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.