Note 86 — HISTORY
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Sydenham & Hodgson was a London mercantile firm, represented in Virginia by Jonathan Sydenham. Mercer identified the firm in Ledger G as “Merchants King George” and noted in his journal on January 20, 1745, that he visited at “Mr. Sydenham’s.” In 1757 the two men were referred to elsewhere as “Messrs. Sydenham & Hodgson of London.” See “Proceedings of the Virginia Committee of Correspondence, 1759-67,” VHM (Richmond, 1905), vol. 12, pp. 2-4.