Hugh  and Louisa Mercer

Alexandria Deed Book E, page 322, recorded 26 July 1820

Whereas the late General Hugh Mercer held a tract of land of 5000 acres at the time of his death which was granted by the Commonwealth of Virginia to the heirs of said Hugh Mercer on the 1st day of September 1780 on a survey made the 9th of May 1774, now lying in the County of Campbell in the State of Kentucky on the Ohio River extending down the same from the mouth of Wells Creek formerly called Locust to near the mouth of Sellema or 4 Mile Creek and back.

2000 acres of said Tract General Hugh Mercer devised to his son George and his heirs, and 2000 of the same tract he devised to such child or children as his wife was pregnant with at the date of his said Will, which child is Hugh Mercer. And whereas some doubt may arise as to the capacity of the said George to convey his interest in the same deed in that event all the children of the said General Hugh Mercer would inherit from the said George and where the heirs of Hancock Taylor, Abraham Hapoustall and Hancock Lee, who were the locators of said land were entitled to one fifth part of the said land for locating the same.

And whereas by a division between the said locators of their proportion 407 acres of the tract falls to Hancock Lee.  Now therefore This indenture made 10 April 1810 between Hugh Mercer and Louisa, his wife, the said Hugh being also Legatee of John Mercer, deceased, Robert Patton and Ann Gordon, his wife, late Ann Gordon Mercer and William Mercer of the town of Fredericksburg and County of Spotsylvania and State of Virginia, and George Mercer of the County of Culpepper and State of aforesaid of the one part and Hancock Lee of the County of Fauquier and State aforesaid of the other part.

Heirs in consideration of the services for locating said land and the further consideration of the sum of one dollar sell 407 acres of land.
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Alexandria Deed Book F, page 112, Acknowledged in Franklin Co Court 2 Sep 1817, recorded 9 Apr 1822 in Campbell Co

Indenture made 2 September 1817 between Hancock Lee of Fauquier County in the State of Virginia on the one part and James Taylor of the County of Campbell, State of Kentucky of the other part.  Hancock in consideration of $10,703 sells James all that tract of land in the County of Campbell on the Ohio river being part of the late General Hugh Mercer's survey patented to him and calling to lay on the Ohio below the mouth of Locust Creek which is no known by the name of Wells Creek and being the tract conveyed to the said Hancock Lee by Hugh Mercer and Louisa his wife and John Mercer for George Mercer, deed dated the 26 November 1810 as will appear by the records of the General Court of Kentucky containing 407 acres be the same more or less.

Hancock Lee by John L Lee, his attorney in fact