[73] John Mercer's journal, kept in the back of Ledger B.
[74] Col. John Taliaferro was a justice of Spotsylvania
County court and one of the original trustees of
Fredericksburg. He lived at the "Manor Plantation," Snow
Creek, Spotsylvania County, and died in 1744 ("Virginia
Council Journals, 1726-1753," _VHM_ [Richmond, 1927], vol.
35, p. 415). Benjamin Hubbard lived in Caroline County ("The
Lovelace Family and its Connections," _VHM_ [Richmond, 1921],
vol. 29, p. 367); John Powers was apparently a resident of
King William County (Ida J. Lee, "Abstracts from King William
County Records," WMQ [2] [Williamsburg, 1926], vol. 6, p.
72); "Furnea's" seems to have been an ordinary between
Williamsburg and New Kent.
[75] Peter Daniel was a burgess and leading citizen of
Stafford County, who, as vestryman, signed the advertisement
for bids to build a new Aquia Church in 1751. _Virginia
Gazette_, June 6, 1751.
[76] The Reverend Mr. John Moncure was minister of
Overwharton Parish.
[77] See pp. 25, 35-36, 46-47 and footnote 95 for further
references to William Walker. Mercer's visit on this occasion
probably relates to Walker's tentative appointment to rebuild
Aquia Church.
[78] Mrs. Ann Spoore of Stafford County.
[79] Probably Mercer's sister-in-law, Mrs. Ann Mason, mother
of George Mason of Gunston Hall.
[80] Dr. Henry Potter lived in Spotsylvania County. His
estate was advertised for sale the following April 17 in the
_Virginia Gazette_.
[81] George Hoomes was a justice of Caroline County court. He
was appointed in 1735, the same year in which John Mercer
qualified to practice law at the same court. "Extracts from
the Records of Caroline County," _VHM_ (Richmond, 1912), vol.
20, p. 203.
[82] Probably Thomas Anderson (see p. 35 and footnote 93);
William Gray was justice of New Kent County.
[83] Joseph Selden's estate passed to his son Samuel, who
married Mercer's eldest daughter, Sarah Ann Mason Mercer. See
John Melville Jennings, ed., "Letters of James Mercer to John
Francis Mercer," _VHM_ (Richmond, 1951), vol. 59, pp. 89-91.
[84] Fredericksburg district-court papers, file 571, bundle
F, nos. 36-43 (through George F. S. King, Fredericksburg);
Stafford County Will Book, Liber Z, p. 383 (August 5, 1707).