Major Charles Dick, of Fredericksburg, Virginia, was appointed Commissary by Governor Dinwiddie during the French and Indian war. During the American Revolution he was appointed one of a board to carry on a powder factory at Fredericksburg. He had one son and two daughters—Alexander Dick, and Mary, who married first Sir John Peyton and second James Taliaferro, and Eleanor, who married on June 4, 1772 Hon. James Mercer. I have brief abstracts of the wills of father and son. Will of Charles Dick, 22 July, 1779; names only son Alexander, eldest daughter Mary Taliaferro, son-in-law James Mercer, niece Mollie Hill; has four grandchildren. Will of Alexander Dick, January 29, 1785; names friend James Mercer, Esq., made executor; sister Mary Taliaferro, nephew Charles Champe Taliaferro, nephew John Fenton Mercer. See QUARTERLY XVII, 209.

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