Petition of John Mercer [1747].

• imprint_number: 1747.001
• title: To the worshipful the speaker and gentlemen of the House of Burgesses, the case and petition of John Mercer, of Marlborough-town, in the county of Stafford, gent.
• sequence_number: 1
• year: 1747
• place_issued: Williamsburg
• issuing_press: William Parks
• author: Mercer, John (1704-68).
• notes: "Petition for an act of Assembly confirming to him, the said Mercer, the land on which the town of Marlborough was established years ago, which town had since become extinct; the said Mercer having arranged with the Stafford county authorities for the land, with certain provisions and exceptions." (Clayton-Torrence)
  
  
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