My Bennetts came from England to Isle of Wight, VA to NC to GA. If your Mercer is Georgia based you should be proud. He was an industrious and good man. Was of his descendants was song writer Johnny Mercer. When Rev. John Wesley, who later became to progenitor of Methodism, was a young Church of England minister in Savannah in the 1730s, he was wrongly accused of several wrong doings, primarily slander, by the powerful uncle of a young lady who jilted him. On a cold December night, several friends, including Samuel Mercer's servants, rowed him across the Savannah River from where he proceeded to Beaufort and caught a boat to Charles Town and from there a vessel back to home and destiny. Mercer served as one of the President's assistants in the eraly Georgia government. He was one of the members approved my 5th great-grandfather, Captain David Cutler Braddock's, petition for a grant of 500 acres on the Ogeechee on January 27, 1747. On July 23, 1755, Samuel Mercer loaned Captain Braddock 84 pounds, 7 shillings, 2 pence for use in outfitting a privateer. The List of Early Settlers of Georgia says: "Mercer, Jane Parker--W.[wife] of Saml. [Thos.]; embark'd 6 Dec. 1732; arrived 1 Feb. 1732; Widow of Saml. Parker who died 20 July 1733." She arrived with her husband on the first boatload to Georgia. "Mercer, Saml.--Tanner; embark'd 15 June 1733; arrived 29 Aug. 1733; lot 99 in Savannah. His 1. wife dying, he marry'd Jane the widow of Saml. Parker 6 May 1734, and lives on her own lot when in town, but he took land up in the country tho he has no grant of it. In 1736 he cultivated 5 acres, from 2 of which he 25 bushells of Indian corn, the other 3 being under pease were destroyed by deer; he also split 6000 pine trees on this lot. Made 2[nd] constable 24 Oct. 1738." "Mercer, Anne, w.[wife]--Dead 29 Sept. 1738." I hope this proves of use to you. Jerry B.