Nunn & Company

BOOKSELLERS

STATIONERS.

227 NORTH HOWARD STREET

Baltimore

ISSUED QUARTERLY

ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION, $3.00-SINGLE NUMBERS, 75CTS.

BALTIMORE
BUILDIN

FOR SALE AT THE ATHENAEUM BUILDING, ST. PAUL & SARATOGA STS.

• Abernethy

Safe Deposit and Trust Company

OF BALTIMORE

9, 11, 13 SOUTH STREET

Chartered 1864

Capital and Surplus, $2,200,470.39

CTS as Trustee of Corporation Mortgages, Fiscal Agent for Corporations

of re-organization.

Acts as Executor, Administrator, Guardian, Trustee, Receiver, Attorney and
Agent, being especially organized for careful management and settlement
of estates of every character.

Fireproof Building with latest and best equipment for safety of contents.
Safes for rent in its large FIRE AND BURGLAR PROOF VAULTS with
spacious and well-lighted coupon rooms for use of patrons.

Silver and other valuables taken on storage.

BOSTON, PROVIDENCE AND SAVANNAH

Daily Line to Newport News and Norfolk.
Most delightful Route to Jamestown Exposition.
Steamers New, Fast and Elegant.
Accommodations and Cuisine Unexcelled.

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"FINEST COASTWISE TRIPS IN THE WORLD."

A. D. STEBBINS, Vice-Pres. and Gen'l Mgr. W. P. TURNER, Pass. Traffic Mgr.

General Offices, S. E. Cor. German and Light Sts., Baltimore, Md.

As preliminary to a sketch of the life of John Francis Mercer, Governor of Maryland from 1801 to 1803, a brief account of his parentage and family may be given, as mistakes have been made in respect to them.

John Francis Mercer was the son of John Mercer, of Marlborough (the name of his estate), Stafford County, Virginia, by his second marriage with Ann Roy, daughter of Dr. Roy, of Essex County, Virginia.

John Mercer was the son of John Mercer, of Dublin, Ireland, and his wife, Grace Fenton, grandson of Robert Mercer, and great-grandson of Noel Mercer, of Chester, England, which is as far back as the records in my possession extend. Family tradition, however, connects this English family of Mercers with the Mercers of Aldie, Perthshire, Scotland. John Mercer came to Virginia in 1720 at the age of sixteen, and in 1725, at the age of twenty-oue, married his first wife, Catherine Mason, daughter of Col. George Mason (2nd), of Stafford County, Virginia, sister of Col. George Mason (3rd), and aunt of George Mason (4th), of Gunston, Fairfax County, Va., who drew the Bill of Rights, and assisted in framing the first Constitution of Virginia in 1776.