1777 in The United States - Deaths

Deaths

  • January 12 – Hugh Mercer, soldier and physician (born 1726)
  • May 19 – Button Gwinnett, 2nd Governor of Georgia (born 1735)
  • September 22 – John Bartram, botanist, horticulturalist and explorer (born 1699)

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