File:384px-Land grant Hugh Mercer's Heirs Thomas Jefferson 1780.jpg

Description: Three-thousand acre land grant to the heirs of Hugh Mercer, Kentucky County, Virginia, the assignee of George Weedon for Capt. Lieut. Weedon's service in Virginia's Second Regiment during the French and Indian War, and according to the terms of King George III's proclamation. [1] Document courtesy of the Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library, Library of Congress Digital Collections. Date: 1 September 1780(1780-09-01) Source:Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/fawbib:@field(DOCID+@lit(bmc0036)) [2] Author: Thomas Jefferson Permission: Public Domain