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Facts and Events
Citations
- John Mercer on rootsweb
- http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mwballard&id=I42497
Stockholder's in the Ohio Land Company
- Thomas Lee, President of Company
- Nathaniel Chapman, Treasurer
- John Mercer, Secretary and General Counsel
- George Mercer, Company Agent to England
- Robert Dinwiddie, Duke of Bedford
- John Hanbury, London Merchant
- Augustine Washington Jr.
- William Trent
- Lawrence Washington
- George Fairfax
- Thomas Cresap
- The Ohio Land Company sent Col. George Washington and William Trent into the area to hold onto the lands that the Company had been granted. In 1754, William Trent constructs a fort. But in April, the French take the fort, naming it Fort Duquesne.
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