Hugh Mercer

Hugh Mercer
Hugh Mercer[1]
Born	(1726-01-16)16 January 1726 Pitsligo, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Died	12 January 1777(1777-01-12) (aged 50) Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.
Place of burial	Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Allegiance	Jacobites  Great Britain  United States
Service/branch	Jacobite Army Pennsylvania Militia Continental Army
Years of service	Jacobite Army (1745–1746) Pennsylvania Militia (1755–1776) Continental Army (1776–1777)
Rank	Brigadier general (Continental Army)
Battles/wars	Jacobite rising of 1745 Battle of Culloden French and Indian War Kittanning Expedition Battle of Fort Duquesne American Revolutionary War Battle of Trenton Battle of Princeton (DOW)
Alma mater	University of Aberdeen
Relations	Hugh W. Mercer (grandson) Johnny Mercer and George S. Patton (great-great-great grandsons)
Other work	Surgeon, apothecary

Hugh Mercer (January 16, 1726 – January 12, 1777) was a brigadier general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He fought in the New York and New Jersey campaign and was mortally wounded at the Battle of Princeton.

He was born in Pitsligo, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and studied medicine at the University of Aberdeen. He served as an assistant surgeon in Charles Edward Stuart's army during the Battle of Culloden in the Jacobite rising of 1745.

After the failed uprising, Mercer escaped to the colonial-era Province of Pennsylvania, where he lived in Greencastle, Pennsylvania, which is present-day Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, and Fredericksburg, Virginia. He worked as a physician, and established an apothecary. He served alongside George Washington in the provincial troops during the French and Indian War, and he and Washington became close friends.