Robert Mercer

1696 - 1769  (72 years)

 Set As Default Person

• Name	Robert Mercer  [1, 2]
  Birth	19 Dec 1696	Earleville, Cecil, Maryland, USA   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Jul 1769	Cecil, Maryland, USA   [1]
  Age	72 years
  Burial	Earleville, Cecil, Maryland, USA   [1]
  Person ID	I746	A Demo Tree
  Last Modified	10 Apr 2023

  
  

  Father	Thomas Arbuthnot Mercer
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Elizabeth Barnes
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F406	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Ann Mounce           b. 9 Jan 1701, Cecil, Maryland, USA           d. 1744, Cecil, Maryland, USA (Age 42 years)
  Marriage	9 Jan 1733	St. Stephen's, Cecil, Maryland, USA
  Children	+ 1. Robert Mercer, II           b. 22 Dec 1737, St. Stephen's, Cecil, Maryland, USA           d. 22 Jan 1793, New Castle, New Castle, Delaware, USA (Age 55 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F402	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 Apr 2023

  
  

• Notes

  From Find A Grave Father: Thomas Arbuthnot Mercer Mother: Elizabeth Barnes Calendar of Wills Marcer, Robert, Cecil Co., 16 July 1769-23 Aug. 1769 Wife: Ann Children: Thomas, James Ann Caulk, Rebecca, John, Frances, Elizabeth and Sarah Hull. Grandchildren: John Marcer, son of son, Robert; Robert and Elizabeth Smith, Friend John Boulton, guardian of son John (if wife dies) Tracts: Larrimore's Neck, Mountsfield, Addition and Barbadoes. Ex. Wife Ann, Wit: William Ward, Augustine Hendrickson, John Ward, son of John Guardian bond for Ann Marcer, ex. of Robert Marcer, signed by Ann Marcer, William Ward and John Ward Jr. 20 Sep. 1769, 1500 pounds. 11 June 1767. Thomas Etherington, farmer to Robert Marcer, farmer, 25.12.6 pounds, Etherington's Chance, which adjoins Benjamin Etherington's fence, 10.25 acres (Mark) (No wife's acknowledgment). 11 June 1767, Robert Marcer, farmer, to Thomas Etherington, farmer. 50.12.6 pounds, part of Indian Range, adjoining Sewell, division line between Henry Hendrickson and Robert Marcer, branch of Back Creek, Benjamin Etherington's fence, 20.25 acres. (No wife's acknowledgment). Mercer (Marcer), Robert, Age 60 in 1764 as deponent CE 2:141-142. Made a vestryman of St. Stephens in 1737. In 1745 records show that pews were appropriated to Thomas, Robert and John Mercer. Debt Books show that Robert Mercer (Marcer) paid rent on Barbadoes, Indian Range, Mountsfield, Addition to Mount Herman, Herman's Mount, Mountsfield Addition and Larramore's Neck 1734-66. Sources: Title: Ancestors of American Presidents Author: Gary Boyd Roberts Publication: Published in cooperation with the New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts by Carl Boyer, 3rd., Santa Clarita, Calif. 1995 Note: Property of Annora B. Renoe Media: Book Sources: Title: St. Stephen's, North Sassafras Parish, register Early Anglican Records of Cecil Co. Title: Cecil County Wills Page: Book BB-2-319, 1769 Maryland Marriages 1634-1777, compiled by Robert Barnes, Gen Pub. Co Inc, Baltim Bush’s long-ago Walker-and-related forebears, along with some of their cousins and in-laws, owned plantations and farms at Sassafras Neck in Cecil County, Md. This is a narrow strip of land between the Bohemia and Sassafras rivers, which flow into Chesapeake Bay. The pages of the nation’s earliest Census enumerations offer this testimony, which has been independently compiled: • Robert and Ann (Bolton) Mercer owned slaves. They were fifth great-grandparents of the president and great-grandparents of Bloomington’s Judge David Davis, who helped put Abraham Lincoln in the White House. In 1790, there was an Ann Mercer in Cecil County at the West Sassafras Hundred election district. She headed a household of one free white male age 16 or over, one free white male under 16, two free white females, and five slaves. Mercer had been widowed for about two decades.

  
  

• Reference

  Your Name Here. "Robert Mercer". A TNG-WordPress Integration Demonstration. https://uniquelyyourshosting.net/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I746&tree=demotree (accessed April 28, 2024).