MERCIER

Anonymous asked 9 years ago

Searching for info on Francis (Francois) Mercier born between 1760 and 1765.  He came to the US from Saint Domingue (present day Haiti) probably in the mid-1780s prior to the great slave rebellion of 1791.  He was in New Bordeaux in the Hillsborough Township of South Carolina, and sometime in the late 1780s he left South Carolina and came to Wilkes County, GA.  On Nov. 20, 1798, Francis Mercier became a citizen of the United States in Wilkes Co. GA.  About 1809 the family moved to Baldwin County, GA, and around 1823 they moved to Early County, GA.    He married Elizabeth Petit (pronounced Pe-tee in French), the daughter of Benjamin and Jane (Jeanne) Petit.

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