Thomas Mercer 1648 - 1718
A Chart of His Early Descendents
300 years Later
by Don Wayland Mercer
Updated 1995
Thomas Mercer page 29 Brother Joseph Mercer 1650 Descendants
1 Christopher Mercer/1612 Born : 1612 England to Barbados, W.I. by 5-12-1654 Died : there Spring 1671 Married : 1) 11-3-1644 Holy Trinity Church, London, England Mary Simson Married : 2) 12-2-1667 Barbados Mrs. Elizabeth Souther. (Chris. a Cooper).
8 Joseph Mercer/1650 b 1650c England - only record we have of Joseph Mercer/1650 is his witness to the 1-16-1718 Will of his Brother Thomas Mercer/1648 (1648-1718) and the closeness of Thomas to Joseph’s son John Mercer Sr., by leasing him land in 1713
8A John Mercer Sr./1685 , Housebuilder b 1685c d 1751 Norfolk - Va m1 Ruth Sikes m2 Margaret Suggs Beck
700 Samuel Mercer/1718 b 1718c VA (mo Ruth Sikes) Lived 1749 Edgecombe-NC d Bladen-NC m Dorothy unknown, she m2 1763c John Waters and went to Ebenezer District, St. Mathews Parish, later Effingham-GA
701 Henry Mercer/1736, Seamster b 1736c va d 1791 Robeson-NC m hannah ( gave beef to troops during Rev. War)
737 Peter Mercer/1740 b1740c VA Ivd Cumblerland-Bladen-NC d 1808-Montgomery-Ga m Elizabeth Caswell of Greene-NC d/o Samuel Greene. ( Claim by British Merchant Co., He went to GA “possessing good Estate”)
738 Margaret Mercer m Montgomery-GA , Mr. Hughes
739 Dorothy Mercer m Montgomery-GA , Mr. Matthews
740 Jane Mercer m Montgomery-GA , Mr. Hadley
741? Joseph Mercer/1742c VA d 8-17-1797 New Brunswick-Canada , Lived Edgecombe-Johnson-Cumberland-Baden-NC Loyalist Soldier 1776 NC m 1 Jane Andrews b NC d 1817 Screven-GA d/o Samuel Andrews m2 NY Sarah Shaw b 1747 d 1837 to NY Nov 1776,to Canada 1783
742 Solomon Mercer/1770 (mo Jane Andrews) b 1770c Bladen-NC Lived Liberty-SC Montgomery-GA d 8-6-1823b Emanuel-GA m1 ‘Kersey” (part Creek Indian) m2 Nancy Griffin
743 Charles Mercer/1804 b 1804 Montgomery-GA , one Charles m 1838Matagorda-TX Betsy Higgins
744 Riley Mercer/1805 b 1805 Montgomery-GA m 1828c Mary Sumerlin
745 Malichi Mercer/1806 b 1806 Montgomery-GA d 1886 Bullock-GA m1 1-29-1829 Bulloch-GA Jane Holloway
746 Griffin Mercer/1810 (mo Nancy Griffin) b 1810c Montgomery-GA m Sarah
747 Elizabeth Mercer/1812 (mo Nancy Griffin) b 1812 Emanuel-GA m Elizabeth Dekle, Widow.
749 Malichi Mercer/1772 (mo Jane Andrews) b 1772 Bladen-NC Lived Montgomery-GA d 1804c Screven-GA m Abigail Kemp d 12-2-1843b d/o Solomon Kemp m2 Isaac Rooks - no issue
750 John Mercer d 1827b m Dicey Lived Screven-GA
751 Mary Mercer m Henry G. Shealey Lived Screven-Ga
752 Daughter Mercer (mo Jane Andrews) wife of Sherod Horne of Washington-GA
753 Sarah Mercer (mo Jane Andrews) wife of James Casey of Emanuel-GA
754 Mary Mercer/1777 (mo Jane Andrews) b 1777 SC d 1850a Bullock-GA single Lived Screven-Effingham-Ga
755 Joshua Mercer/1780 (mo Sarah Shaw) b 1780 New York
756 Lot Mercer/1782 (mo Sarah Shaw) b 5-18-1782 Long, Island, New York
757 Hannah Mercer (mo Sarah Shaw) m 1813 St John, New Brunswick-Canada Hartley Thompson
758 Joseph Mercer, Jr. /1787 (mo Sarah Shaw) b 9-15-1787 d 10-28-1858 St John, New Brunswick-Canada m 12-31-1804 Frances Baxter b 1789 d 1850 d/o of Benjamin Baxter
759 William Mercer/1790 (mo Sarah Shaw) b 1790 d 3-4-1827 St John, New Brunswick-Canada
760 Dorothy Mercer b VA m George Icker who d 1774 Bladen-NC , Henry Mercer (701) co-executor
761 James Mercer/1717 , Shoemaker b 1717c Norfolk-VA ( mo Ruth Sikes) Lived Craven & Jones-NC
762 John Mercer/1742 b 1742c Lived Craven-NC & Camden-SC, Florida, Loyalist Soldier SC
763 Penny Mercer, James Mercer/1717 gave furniture to daughter 3-22-1779 Jones-NC
764 William Mercer/1714 b 1714 Norfolk-VA ( mo Ruth Sikes) Lived Craven-NC d 1800 Johnson-NC m Elizabeth ( 2nd Wife) See Will
765 William Mercer Jr./1766 b 1766c d 1820's Johnston-NC m Polly Barber
766 John Mercer/1768 b 1768c Lived Johnston-NC d 1850a m Naomi Note : Descendants to Bell-TX after Civil War
767 Daughter ___ Mercer m James Langdon Lived Johnston-NC
771 Rachael Mercer (mo Margaret Suggs) d 5-10-1751b m Falkner Lived Norfolk-VA
772 Ann Falkner Lived Norfolk-VA
773 Margaret Mercer (mo Margaret Suggs) m John Owen - Lived Norfolk-VA
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