Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Hugh Mercer” in chapter 26 of George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition.:
...is, to keep a hold on its colony by letting loose slaves against its own colonists.
The seizure of the powder startled Virginia.
This first public insult is not to be tamely submitted to, wrote Hugh Mercer and others from Fredericksburg to Washington; and they proposed, as a body of light-horsemen, to march to Williamsburg for the honor of Virginia.
Gloucester county would have the powder restored.
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