History of Marlboro, (Frederick County) Virginia United States of America

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James Mercer, delegate and jurist, was born at Marlborough, Va., Feb. 26, 1736; son of John and Catherine (Mason) Mercer. He was graduated at the College of William and Mary about 1755. He was a captain in the French and Indian war command of Fort Loudoun at Winchester, Va., in 1756. He was a representative in the Virginia house of burgesses in 1765, and in the house dissolved by Governor Dunmore in 1774; a member of the assembly that convened in August, 1774; of the conventions of 1775, and also of the Virginia constitutional convention of May, 1776. He was also a member of the committee of safety of 1775-76, which governed Virginia until the inauguration of Patrick Henry, and a delegate from Virginia to the Continental congress. 1779-80. He was appointed judge of the General Court in 1780, and judge of the Virginia court of appeals of five judges in 1789, and filled this offce until his death. He was married, June 4, 1772, to Eleanor, daughter of Maj. Alexander Dick, of Fredericksburg, Va. His chidren were: John Fenton, Mary Eleanor Dick, who married her first cousin, James Mercer Garnett , and Charles Fenton. Neither of his sons married. He was president of the board of trustees of Fredericksburg academy, and a letter from him to Richard Henry Lee, notifying Lee to attend a meeting of the board, is among the Lee papers in the library of the University of Virginia. He drew the will of Mary Washington, mother of George Washington, and was a witness to her signature. He died, while in attendance upon the court of appeals, in Richmond, Va., Oct. 31, 1793.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Marlboro, (Frederick County) Virginia

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