Fourth of July Oration by John Mercer.

• imprint_number: 1792.014
• title: An oration delivered on the 4th of July 1792. Before the president, professors and masters of William & Mary College by John Mercer, student.
• sequence_number: 14
• year: 1792
• place_issued: Richmond
• issuing_press: Thomas Nicolson
• author: Mercer, John (1772-1817).
• notes: John Mercer was a son of General Hugh Mercer, the close friend of Washington who died at the Battle of Princeton in 1777; the son became an attorney in Fredericksburg, served in the House of Delegates, and acted as Monroe's private secretary during the Louisiana Purchase negotiations; ill health forced his retirement from public life in 1806.
  
  
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