Nathaniel Pendleton Family papers 1716-1853

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Nathaniel Pendleton Family papers 1716-1853

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0392

Correspondence and legal and financial papers reflecting Pendleton's service in the Revolutionary Army as aide-de-camp to General Nathanael Greene, and his close connection with Alexander Hamilton. The correspondence includes letters from Samuel Finley, Mrs. Nathanael Greene, Alexander von Humboldt and Otho Holland Williams. Legal and financial papers as well as correspondence of Alexander Hamilton are also included since Pendleton was executor of his estate. Also included are legal documents of the Bard family and papers of other members of the Pendleton family, among them Edmund H. Pendleton and Philip C. Pendleton. Other documents in the papers relate to Indian lands in Georgia (1788) and a summary of a treaty between the King of Spain and the Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw and Cherokee Indians, dated 1793.

2.75 linear feet (1 box, 1 folio)

eng,

Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6350493

Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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Von Humboldt, Alexander, 1769-1859

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Pendleton, Henry, 1750-1788.

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Pendleton, Nathaniel, 1756-1821

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Nathaniel Pendleton (1756-1821): Revolutionary War soldier and aide-de-camp to Nathanael Greene; an original member of the Society of the Cincinnati in South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia and New York; member of the Constitutional Convention, 1788; prominent jurist. From the description of Nathaniel Pendleton family papers, 1716-1853 (inclusive), 1782-1817 (bulk). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702168509 Jurist and officer during the Revolutionary War; aide-de-camp to Gen. Nat...

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Putnam, William Rufus, b. 1771.

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LeGuen, Louis.

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Finley, Samuel, 1752-1829

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Miller, Catherine Littlefield Greene, 1755-1814.

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Livingston, R. S.

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Pendleton, Philip C., 1799-1863.

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Williams, Otho Holland, 1747-1794

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Army officer. From the description of Otho Holland Williams correspondence, 1781-1793. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981380 Williams, of Maryland, was a Revolutionary War officer and, after the war, collector of the port of Baltimore. From the description of Letter, November 27, 1781. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 477274243 ...