Dr. Hugh Mercer
A physician and surgeon, practiced in the Conococheague settlement 1750 – 1755, and lived in this locality during that time. A personal friend of Washington, a general in the Revolutionary Army, he received his death wounds at the Battle of Princeton January 1777. A brave soldier, a skilled physician and a loyal American.
Marker is on Buchanan Trail W (Pennsylvania Route 16) east of Anderson Road, on the right when traveling east.
Courtesy hmdb.org
