Legacy LibraryJohn Mercer
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| Library date | 1768-10-14 |
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| Library Size (volumes) | ~1500 |
| Sources | Library reconstruction; Bennie Brown, Jr., Gunston Hall (1981) Sale mentioned in Virginia Gazette (23 May 1771); noted in "Libraries in Colonial Virginia," WMQ 6:1 (July, 1897), p. 40 Manuscript ledger, John Mercer Papers, Bucks County Historical Society; excerpted in Herbert Alan Johnson, Imported Eighteenth-Century Law Treatises in American Libraries, 1700-1799, pp. 76-83 |
| Library Notes | Advertisement in Virginia Gazette (23 May 1771) for the sale of Mercer's estate, including "a great collection of well-chosen books" |
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| Date of Birth | 1704 |
| Date of Death | 1768-10-14 |
| Gender | male |
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