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	History of Aldie Mill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Among Mercer's surviving business correspondence for 1809 is an application for a license to use Evan's patented inventions, a purchase order for Evan's cast-iron machine for breaking plaster into fertilizer, and the young miller's request on behalf of his millwright for Evan's technical assistance in fitting the plaster machine to his mill.
		Mercer's first tenant, William Noland, who served with Mercer in the Virginia Legislature and co-authored with James Barbour the act creating the Virginia Literary Fund, came from a family long associated with mills in the Leesburg area.
		Mercer found his legal training useful in managing the mill property, but seldom found it necessary to defend his rights as landlord in court.
	www.aldiemill.org /AldieMill/AMhistory.htm (1663 words)

	Texas Association Stock Certificate - PBA Galleries, Auctions & Appraisers
		Attractive stock certificate issued by Charles Fenton Mercer to shareholders in his empresario grant of 8,000 square miles in northeast Texas, roughly between the Brazos and Sabine Rivers.
		Although Mercer was able to successfully settle the required number of immigrants, his colonization was hindered by the fact that political and speculator interests wanted to supplant the Republic's empresario system with the American land system.
		Mercer's empresario grant contract was executed by Sam Houston on January 29, 1844, only one day before the final repeal of the Republic's empresario system by the Texas Congress, overriding Houston's veto of the bill.
	www.pbagalleries.com /search/item.php?anr=126231& (284 words)

	Loudoun Farm Museum - Oral Histories
		In contrast to Charles Fenton Mercer's views on the immorality of freed slaves, emancipated slaves were chosen based on their morals, character, and interest in providing to the welfare of their new country.
		Charles Fenton Mercer believed in colonization but was radically out of step with other supporters when it came to determining who should be sent.
		Charles Fenton Mercer Free people of color were a growing force everyday polluting and corrupting public morals.
	www.loudounfarmmuseum.org /session.htm (4532 words)

	Charles Fenton Mercer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Charles Fenton Mercer, visionary, entrepreneur, businessman and politician
		Although John Eaton became president of the canal company in 1833, Mercer continued to serve as an advocate of federally funded internal improvements, such as the canal, while serving in the U.S. House of Representatives.
		One of his dreams was to construct a great canal across the Isthmus of Panama to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
	www.nps.gov /choh/History/People/Mercer.html (100 words)

	Maryland Historical Society Library: Harper-Pennington Papers, 1701-1899, MS. 431 - Finding Aid
		Charles Carroll of Carrollton was one of the wealthiest men in America, and his financial affairs were cared for more by his two sons-in-law than by his son, Charles Carroll of Homewood.
		Charles Carroll, Esq., may be Charles Carroll of Annapolis (of Anne Arundel County), father of the signer, although the signature does not appear similar to later documents signed by him and appears on documents as early as 1713.
		Charles Carroll Harper, the eldest son, was now head of the family, but he looked increasingly to his grandfather for advice, particularly in the settlement of his father's estate.
	www.mdhs.org /library/Mss/ms000431.html (7508 words)

	History @ Mercer Crossing
		Mercer Crossing is a tribute to Charles Fenton Mercer (1778-1858), a Virginia statesman who came to the newly independent Republic of Texas in 1844 to take advantage of President Sam Houston's efforts to increase settlement.
		Houston granted Mercer an empresario contract to settle at least 100 families in Mercer Colony, on land that included the current site of Mercer Crossing.
		Charles Mercer organized a company, the Texas Association, to advertise and promote colonization, and sold shares at $500 each to investors in Virginia, Florida, and Texas.
	www.mercercrossing.com /history.html (275 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: MERCER, CHARLES FENTON
		Mercer was admitted to the bar in 1802 and entered the practice of law in Aldie, Virginia.
		In his public life Mercer zealously pursued three principal interests: development of the American West through internal improvements, promotion of public education through schools established at public expense, and colonization of "free people of color" through emigration to Africa.
		Mercer's contract was a source of controversy, however.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/MM/fme23.html (811 words)

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		Among those in the forefront was a portly Virginian named Charles Fenton Mercer, president of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Co., whose task it was to hand the symbolic spade to Adams.
		Charles Fenton Mercer, a congressman from Loudoun County, was passionate in his belief in such "internal improvements." Infrastructure, along with banking, education and establishing colonies in West Africa for free African Americans, was part of the broad vision he had of a productive, peaceable and industrialized (if largely white) America.
		Charles Fenton Mercer was gone by then, having resigned from Congress in 1839.
	sycamoreisland.org /press/sp05.htm (1869 words)

	Aldie Mill Historic District
		Charles Fenton Mercer, military officer, legislator, and advocate of the colonization of African Americans, settled here in 1804.
		The large merchant mill, constructed in 1807 by Mercer's partner William Cooke, survives as one of the best outfitted early mills in the state.
		Overlooking the mill is the large Federal house, built by Mercer in 1810 as his residence.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/journey/ald.htm (215 words)

	An Account of James Monroe's Land Holdings
		Monroe purchased the land on which Oak Hill was located jointly with his uncle Judge Joseph Jones of Fredericksburg, in 1794.
		The property consisted of approximately 4,400 acres, which they had purchased from Colonel Charles Carter of Loudoun County.
		of Goshen, Col. Armstead T. Mason, near Leesburg, Maj. Charles Fenton Mercer of Leesburg, or to the subscriber, near Milton in Albemarle county.
	etext.lib.virginia.edu /users/fennell/highland/ashlawn5.html (1247 words)

	Early Revolutionary History of Virginia 1773-1774 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Va., a lawyer and author of Mercer's "Abridgment of the Laws of Virginia," and Catherine Mason, daughter of Colonel George Mason, of Stafford county, Va., and aunt of George Mason, noted as the author of the Virginia Constitution of 1776, and otherwise.
		He married Mary Eleanor Dick, daughter of Charles Dick, of Fredericksburg, and was the father of Charles Fenton Mercer, who represented the Loudoun district in Congress ftom 1817 to 1840.
		Judge Mercer drew the will of Mary Washington, still preserved in the records of the corporation court of Fredericksburg, and was one of the witnesses to her signature.
	www.ls.net /~newriver/va/erevva.htm (3529 words)

	TAKE YOUR CHOICE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		At a time when the Colonization Society was without strength to obtain land and colonize American Negroes, Charles Fenton Mercer, a member of Congress who belonged to the organization, devised means of obtaining aid from the Federal Government.
		Mercer had been interested in Negro repatriation long before he was elected to Congress.
		During the time when Mercer was trying to carry out a program of repatriation, there were some 200,000 free persons of color scattered throughout the Nation.
	www.churchoftrueisrael.com /tyc/tyc-15.html (8894 words)

	Dictionary of Australian Biography We-Wy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Weld was the son of Humphrey Weld and his wife, Maria Christina, daughter of Charles Lord Clifford of Chudleigh, and was educated at Stonyhurst and at the university of Friburg in Switzerland.
		(Sir) Charles Cowper's ill-advised attempt to swamp the upper house had resulted in the resignation of many of the other members, and Wentworth was persuaded to become president of a reconstructed legislative council in 1862.
		Whyte and the colonial treasurer, Charles Meredith (q.v.) were the first to go on ministerial tours, and as a result vigorous efforts were made to open up the country by constructing roads and bridges.
	gutenberg.net.au /dictbiog/0-dict-biogWe-Wy.html (20436 words)

	View of Liberian History and Government
		In 1930, the Liberia Government was faced with a major political crisis, when the League of Nations appointed the "International Commission of Inquiry into the Existence of Slavery and Forced Labor in the Republic of Liberia", to investigate allegations of slavery and the forced recruitment of indigenous labor by the Liberian Government officials.
		Shortly after the publication of these findings, President Charles D.B. King and Vice President Allen Yancy were forced to resign; other Liberian leaders implicated were forced to resign; and the League of Nations drew up a plan of assistance which could have, if it had been implemented, eventually abrogated the independence of Liberia.
		Charles Taylor's record during the civil war does not lend any hope to the easing of tension in the Liberian Government.
	www.africawithin.com /tour/liberia/hist_gov1.htm (7318 words)

	Aldie Mill Turns Its Wheels Again; Saturday Ceremony Is Prelude To Functional Use --Leesburg2Day-- The Journal of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Aldie Mill was built between 1807 and 1809 by noted Loudoun industrialist and U.S. Congressman Charles Fenton Mercer, a key figure on both the local and national level.
		Mercer’s intent was to export top-quality flour to Europe where local food staples were being ravaged by the Napoleonic Wars.
		Mercer’s own house, now owned by Mercer District Supervisor James G. Burton (I), sits on a hill overlooking the mill across Rt.
	www.leesburg2day.com /current.cfm?catid=2&newsid=7031 (1369 words)

	RootsWeb: MERCER-L Mercers in Frederick/Berkeley Co., VA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Mercer, Moses 2 0 0 7 13 (son of Edward Mercer of Frederick Co.)
		Mercer, Richard 0 0 0 0 0 (son of Edward Mercer of Frederick Co.)
		Mercer, whom was born in Ireland and somehow related to this family, I have to
	archiver.rootsweb.com /th/read/MERCER/2003-06/1055310134 (1528 words)

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		Samuel was found on the payroll of Paddack's 5th Regiment, Captain Charles Busey's Company, as a private for the period 18 February to 19 March 1813 for which he received $8, one month's pay.
		Each received from Charles Fenton Mercer and Associates known as the Texas Association, a certificate issued either 6 or 7 May 1850.
		By the time the 1850 census was taken, Jesse and Rachel and their unmarried sons owning Mercers Colony certificates were found living together, with married sons William, Milton and George nearby.
	lib-operations.sonoma.edu /fin/aaa-0030.html (16811 words)

	A History of Batesville, Arkansas 1919
		Fenton Mercer Noland in speaking of Batesville said: "So much beef is eaten in this region that, catch a man by the ear, he will bellow like a calf." Aaron W. Lyon came to Batesville in 1833 and engaged in teaching for some years but entered the mercantile business in 1842.
		Lyon was one of the trustees of the Batesville Academy, the first academy incorporated in the state, the bill for which was approved by Gov. Conway on September 26, 1836.
		John Ringgold was also a delegate to the constitutional convention of 1836 and Charles Fenton Mercer Noland of this city was delegated to carry the constitution to Washington for approval of Congress.
	www.knology.net /~lizglenn/batesvll.htm (7673 words)

	MERCER, Charles Fenton (1778-1858) Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Letters on the colonization society; and on its probable results; under the following heads: the origin of the society; increase of the coloured population; manumission of slaves in this country; declarations of legislatures, and other assembled bodies, in favour of the society; situation of the colonists at Monrovia, and other towns...
		“Charles Fenton Mercer and the Foundations of Modern American Conservatism.” Ph.D. diss., Georgetown University, 1985.
		Mercer, on the subject of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, delivered in the convention of delegates, held at the city of Washington, November 7, 1823.
	bioguide.congress.gov /scripts/bibdisplay.pl?index=M000642 (189 words)

	Charles Fenton Mercer and the trial of national conservatism (in MARION) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Charles Fenton Mercer and the trial of national conservatism (in MARION)
		Charles Fenton Mercer and the trial of national conservatism
		Charles Fenton Mercer and the trial of national conservatism / by Douglas R. Egerton.
	js-catalog.cpl.org /MARION/BFB-6065 (62 words)

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		As to my devises & legacies they are: First, to my daughter Mary Eleanor Dick Mercer I give her the sum of one thousand pounds to be paid her within three years after my death as also two young negros girls or female negroes of whatever age they may be a.....
		To my daughter Lucinda Mercer I give the sum of three hundred pounds to be paid to her on the day after marriage.
		To my son Charles Fenton Mercer I give and devise one moiety of any Bull run lands containing in the whole about three hundred acres.
	ftp.rootsweb.com /pub/usgenweb/va/spotsylvania/wills/mercer-jas.txt (760 words)

	BooksForGenealogy.com Book Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This 45 page publication details how Charles Fenton Mercer secured an "empresario contract" in 1844 from Governor Sam Houston for land on which he would bring settlers.
		His colony in present McLennan County, Texas and near Greenville and McKinney, was the large land tract on which he was to settle one hundred families in five years.
		Mercer claimants found it difficult to hold their land and many claims remained contested until 1936.
	www.booksforgenealogy.com /books/index/title/M/TX-0012/18783.html (159 words)

	Mason - Dixon Chat Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Society member Charles Fenton Mercer played an important role in getting Congress to pass the Anti-Slave Trading Act of March 1819, which appropriated $100,000 to transport fls to Africa.
		In enforcing the Act, Mercer suggested to President James Monroe that if fls were simply returned to the coast of Africa and released, they would probably be re-enslaved, and possibly some returned to the United States.
		Others agreed with Republican Senator Charles Sumner, who argued that fl laborers were an important part of the national economy, and any attempt to export them "would be fatal to the prosperity of the country."93 In the (Northern) election campaign of November 1862, emancipation figured as a major issue.
	www.msnusers.com /MasonDixonChatForum/3lincolntheemancipator.msnw (12982 words)

	Tharp2.html
		It was built for James Mercer Garnett, by his father, Muscoe Garnett, just before the Revolution, on lands acquired by the elder Garnett in 1767 (sic) from Thomas Thorp, but embraced within the estate were also the lands which Muscoe Garnett purchased of Bernard Gaines, William and Thomas Ayres and James Rutherford.
		A wide staircase to the left of the main hall, a space now occupied by a pantry, originally connected the two floors, but was removed when Muscoe Russell Hunter Garnett altered the house in 1856-7, the stairs being then placed in a tower addition and finally becoming a spiral to the attic.
		Governor Henry ordered Maj. Alexander Dick, of Fredericksburg, a son of Charles Dick, the Fredericksburg and Caroline merchant, and brother of the Rev. Archibald Dick, rector of St. Margaret's Parish to recruit marines to form the military force on this voyage.
	home.earthlink.net /~ntgreen/Tharp2.html (2399 words)

	History - Middleburg Virginia Bed and Breakfast, Briar Patch, Northern Virginia Lodging, Loudoun County, VA, Washington ...
		It is believed to have been a tenant house on Charles Fenton Mercer’s 1300-acre grant.
		The DiZerega family purchased Mercer’s home on the hillside over Aldie and its acreage in 1843, calling it by the name of Hillcrest.
		Hillcrest grew during the next twenty years, acquiring a large living room, library and dining room, as well as seven bedrooms in the main house, along with two cottages, a studio and ten-stall stable, milking parlor, and fenced fields for cattle and horses.
	www.briarpatchbandb.com /history.htm (732 words)

	Wolf Run Studio - Aldie Mill Notecards & Prints
		William Cooke built Aldie Mill in 1807-09 for distinguished statesman Charles Fenton Mercer in exchange for half-interest in the enterprise.
		Profits from the mill gave Mercer the means to pursue his political career.
		In 1835, Mercer sold the Mill to Captain John Moore, whose descendants operated the mill for six generations until 1971.
	www.wolfrunstudio.com /PAGES/pg_gst01.html (453 words)

	The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Mercer
		Mercer, David Henry (1857-1919) — also known as David H. Mercer — of Omaha,
		Son of Louis Albert Mercer and Frances (Grady) Mercer; married 1934 to Mary Harriett Scarborough.
		Mercer, J. — of Topeka, Shawnee County, Kan. Republican.
	politicalgraveyard.com /bio/mercer.html (467 words)

	The Formation of the American Colonization Society: Electronic Edition.
		In the interim, however, Mercer broke the bar of secrecy, interviewed Francis S. Key, of Georgetown, and Elias B. Caldwell, of Washington city, and with their advice drew up some resolutions to introduce in the Assembly at its next session.
		At the next session of the Virginia Assembly, Mercer introduced his resolutions, the purport of which asked the national government to find a territory on the North Pacific on which to settle free fls and those afterwards emancipated in Virginia.
		11 “Mercer's resolutions were passed by the House of Delegates, December 14, 1816, passed with amendment by the Senate, December 20, and concurred in by the House, December 21.
	docsouth.unc.edu /church/sherwood/sherwood.xml (5233 words)

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