COUNTY NAMED/MERCER COUNTY WAR MEMORIAL MARKER
MARKER READS: "GENERAL HUGH MERCER, CA. 1725-77. A NATIVE OF SCOTLAND HE CAME TO AMERICA ABOUT 1746. OFFICER IN FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR, 1755-59. SERVED WITH WASHINGTON. WAS THE COMMANDANT AT FORT PITT. HERO IN REVOLUTION. INSTRUMENTAL IN SUCCESS AT TRENTON, 1776, AND PRINCETON, 1777, WHERE HE WAS BAYONETTED TO DEATH BY HESSIANS. HE OWNED 13,000 ACRES IN KY.
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Listing Details
- Public
- FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR AND REVOLUTIONARY WAR
- War Memorial Historical Wayside Markers
- 1969
- SOUTH MAIN STREET
- 40330
- TOM BOSSE
- COURTESY OF HMdb.org
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