| Name Origin: A dealer in textiles, especially silks. British/Old
English from Old French mercier, trader - from merz,
merchandise - from Latin merx.* 11th Great Grandparents
Edward Mercer
Susanna ______
10th Great Grandparents
Edward Mercer
b 1626 in England
Elizabeth ______
b in England
Ch: Richard Mercer b Northampton, England
Ursulla Mercer b 1649 in Northampton, England
Mary Mercer b 1651 in Northampton, England
Edward Mercer b 1653 in Northampton, England
*Thomas Mercer b Dec 1655 in Aynho on the Hill, Northampton, England d abt
13 Sep 1716 in Thornbury, Chester, Pennsylvania
Nathaniel Mercer b 1656 in Northampton, England
9th Great Grandparents
Thomas Mercer
b 1655 in Aynho on the Hill, Northampton, England d abt 13 Sep 1716 in
Thornbury, Chester, Pennsylvania m abt 1687 to
Mary Greenaway
b abt 1665 in England d abt 3 Jun 1723 in Westtown Township, Chester,
Pennsylvania
Ch: Richard Mercer b 1 Aug 1688 in Aynho on the Hill, Northampton,
England d bef 1710
Mary Mercer b 1689 in Aynho on the Hill, Northampton, England m on 26 Aug
1710 to William Pennell
Thomas Mercer b 29 Aug 1690 in Aynho on the Hill, Northampton, England d
1758 in Westtown, Chester, Pennsylvania m in 1710 to Hannah Taylor
*Elizabeth Mercer b 14 Aug 1692 in Aynho on the Hill, Northampton, England
d aft 1751 in Alamance/Chatham, North Carolina m in 1716 1) Joseph
Woodward 2) William Vestal
Ann Mercer b 1693 in Aynho on the Hill, Northampton, England d 15 Nov
1752 m Joshua Pierce
Joseph Mercer b 1697 in East Marlborough, Chester, Pennsylvania d 1732 in
East Marlborough, Chester, Pennsylvania m in Apr 1719 to Ann Wickersham
8th Great Grandmother
Elizabeth Mercer
b 14 Aug 1692 in Aynho on the Hill, Northampton, England d Aft 1751 in
Alamance/Chatham, North Carolina m 1) on 12 Sep 1712 in Concord MM,
Chester, Pennsylvania
Joseph Woordward [his second wife] d 1715 2) in 1716
to
William Vestal
A special thank you to Linda Dudick and William John Shepherd for
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*American Heritage Dictionary
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