James Mercer was a Virginia lawyer, military officer, planter, jurist and politician.
James Mercer (judge)
The Ohio Company, formally known as the Ohio Company of Virginia, was a land speculation company organized for the settlement by Virginians of the Ohio Country and to trade with the Native Americans. The company had a land grant from Britain and a treaty with Indians, but France also claimed the area, and the conflict helped provoke the outbreak of the French and Indian War.
Thomas Lee, president of the Virginia Council of State, organized the Ohio Company of Virginia in 1748.