Learn More – Jesse Mercer Born
Spright Dowell, A History of Mercer University, 1833-1953 (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1958).
J. R. Huddlestun, “Jesse Mercer’s Influence on the Georgia Baptist Convention,” Viewpoints: Georgia Baptist History 3 (1972): 41-66.
Charles Dutton Mallary, Memoirs of Elder Jesse Mercer (New York: J. Gray, 1844).
Robert W. Mondy, “Jesse Mercer and the Baptist College Movement,” Georgia Historical Quarterly 40 (December 1956): 349-59.
Kay Norton, Baptist Offspring, Southern Midwife—Jesse Mercer’s Cluster of Spiritual Songs (1810): A Study in American Hymnody (Warren, Mich.: Harmonie Park Press, 2002)
“Jesse Mercer (1769-1841).” New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1611&sug=y
Tarver Library, Mercer University: http://libraries.mercer.edu/tarver/archives/finding-aids/jesse-mercer
The Christian Index: http://www.christianindex.org/history.page
Georgia Baptist Convention History
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Mercer University: http://www.mercer.edu/