Edmund Pendleton letters, 1776-1779 [manuscript].

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Edmund Pendleton letters, 1776-1779 [manuscript].

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Letters from Pendleton to his friend, Continental Brigadier General William Woodford (1734-1780), written from Caroline County and Williamsburg, Va., when Pendleton was president of the Virginia Committee of Safety, a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, and a Chancery Court judge. The letters concern public affairs, Revolutionary military campaigns, the army, war measures of the Virginia Assembly, economic conditions, and news from the North, South, and abroad.

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Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803

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Edmund Pendleton (September 9, 1721 – October 23, 1803) was a Virginia planter, politician, lawyer and judge, and a Founding Father of the United States. He served in the Virginia legislature before and during the American Revolutionary War, rising to the position of Speaker. Pendleton attended the First Continental Congress as one of Virginia's delegates alongside George Washington and Patrick Henry, signed the Continental Association, and led the conventions both wherein Virginia declared inde...

Woodford, William, 1734-1780

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William Woodford was born 6 October 1734 in Caroline County, Virginia, to William Woodford (d. 1755) and Anne Cocke Woodford (b. 1704). He was commissioned an officer in the provincial forces during the French and Indian War. When the American Revolution began, Woodford was appointed colonel of the 2nd Virginia Regiment 5 August 1775. On 25 October 1775, his forces repulsed a British attempt to burn the town of Hampton, Virginia. On 9 December 1775, Woodford and his troops defeated a force of Br...