1To Thomas Jefferson from John F. Mercer, 19 October 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
with Mercer on the commissioners, the council nominated the state chancellor, Alexander Contee Hanson, state senator James Houston, and John ...House of Delegates. Mercer in turn nominated Hanson, Gabriel Duvall, and John Thomson Mason, and requested that the assembly determine who properly had authority over the nominations. In the 1804 elections, Montgomery placed third among the four...