Hugh Mercer

For the Confederate general, see Hugh W. Mercer.

Hugh Mercer
Hugh Mercer
Born	(1726-01-16)16 January 1726 Pitsligo, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Died	12 January 1777(1777-01-12) (aged 50) Princeton, New Jersey, US
Burial place	Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Education	University of Aberdeen
Relatives	Hugh W. Mercer (grandson) Johnny Mercer and George S. Patton (great-great-great grandsons)
Military career
Allegiance	Jacobites Great Britain United States
Branch	Jacobite Army Pennsylvania Militia Continental Army
Service years	Jacobite Army (1745–1746) Pennsylvania Militia (1755–1776) Continental Army (1776–1777)
Rank	Brigadier general (Continental Army)
Conflicts	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)
Other work	Surgeon, apothecary

Hugh Mercer (January 16, 1726 – January 12, 1777) was a Scottish 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.

Mercer 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.

The uprising failed, and Mercer escaped to the Province of Pennsylvania where he lived in Greencastle, near 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.