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The St. James' House was built around 1768 and is one of the few eighteenth-century frame houses still standing in Fredericksburg.
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The house was originally home to James Mercer, an attorney, a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, first judge of the General Court in Fredericksburg, and the attorney who drew up the will for Mary Washington.
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Mercer built the house on land once owned by Fielding Lewis, brother-in-law of George Washington.
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