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Language
English
Abstract
A family history and genealogical record of the Mercer family of Monongalia County, WV with mention of the allied families
of Brown and Campbell. Robert Mercer was the first of the family to settle in what is now West Virginia near Morgantown in
1766. He was the son of Gideon Mercer and the grandson of John Mercer, the earliest known family member in America. John Mercer
was a Quaker merchant of New York City and an extensive landowner of Manhattan Island. Also noted is the movement and settlement
of the family, particularly of the line of Robert Mercer's son Joseph, into Pennsylvania and Ohio. Noted are the frontier
activities of Joseph Mercer's children: Phoebe and Nottingham, the latter being a veteran of the War of 1812. Two sons of
Phoebe, Henry Marshall Campbell and James Campbell, served in the PA 46th Volunteer Infantry, Company F during the Civil War
with James being killed in Virginia at the battle of Cedar Mountain. Material covers the years 1766-1933.
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Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Mercer Family Genealogy, A&M 3161, West Virginia and Regional History
Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
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