Brigadier General Hugh Mercer
Brigadier General
Hugh Mercer
Soldier – Patriot – Physician
for whom
Fort Mercer was named
in the spring of 1777
Born 1725, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Died Jan. 12, 1777, Princeton, N.J.
Presented October 25, 1970 to the County of Gloucester by members and friends of the St. Andrew’s Society of Philadelphia of which General Mercer became a member in 1757.
Carl Lindborg
Artist • Sculptor
“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”
Thomas Paine
“The ground of Liberty must be gained by inches.”
Thomas Jefferson
Marker can be reached from Hessian Road, on the right when traveling west.
Courtesy hmdb.org
