[93] Probably the same Thomas Anderson whose appointment as
tobacco inspector at Page's warehouse, Hanover County, was
unsuccessfully protested on the basis that the job required
"a person skilled in writing and expert in accounts"
(_Calendar of Virginia State Papers_, op. cit. (footnote 18),
vol. 1, pp. 233-234). A letter to Thomas Anderson of Hanover
County was listed as uncalled for at the Williamsburg Post
Office in August, 1752 (_Virginia Gazette_; all references to
the _Gazettes_ result from use of LESTER J. CAPPON and STELLA
F. DUFF, _Virginia Gazette Index 1736-1780_ [Williamsburg,
1950], and microfilm published by The Institute of Early
American History and Culture [Williamsburg, 1950]).
[94] See THOMAS TILESTON WATERMAN, _The Mansions of Virginia,
1706-1776_ (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina
Press, 1946), pp. 183-184, and MARCUS WHIFFEN, _The Public
Buildings of Williamsburg_ (Williamsburg, Virginia: Colonial
Williamsburg, Inc., 1958), pp. 84, 133, 218.
[95] WHIFFEN, ibid., pp. 134-137, 217; _JHB, 1742-1747;
1748-1749_ op. cit. (footnote 6), p. 312; _JHB, 1752-1755;
1756-1758_ (Richmond, 1909), p. 28.
[96] Purdie & Dixon's _Virginia Gazette_, September 26, 1766.
Mercer spelled the name _Brownley_ in Ledger G, but in the
_Gazette_ article it is printed consistently as _Bromley_. As
published in the _George Mercer Papers_ it is spelled, and
perhaps miscopied, _Bramley_. We have chosen _Bromley_ as the
most likely spelling, in the absence of other references to
him.
[97] _George Mercer Papers_, op. cit. (footnote 51), p. 204.
[98] Captain Timothy Nicholson was a London merchant and
shipmaster engaged in the Virginia trade with whom Mercer
arranged several transactions.