Elizabeth Pendleton Coles papers, 1791-1889.

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Elizabeth Pendleton Coles papers, 1791-1889.

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Letters to Elizabeth Pendleton Coles from her father, Edmund Pendleton (1823-1899), when he was a Confederate officer in Virginia and a lawyer at Buchanan, Va., noting his military activities and giving her advice about her education when she was a student, apparently at Salem Female Academy in Salem, N.C.; a letter, 1791, to Harry Innes (1752-1816), member of the first Kentucky constitutional convention, from Edmund Pendleton (1721-1803), Virginia Revolutionary leader and jurist, discussing the organization of the government of Virginia; a manuscript draft of a statement (2 p.) by General Robert E. Lee, 1869, to officials and citizens of Baltimore endorsing the project of a Shenandoah Valley Railroad; an album of pictures of Pendleton family members and house interiors; pages with family data from Bibles of members of the family of Walter Coles (1772-1854) of Albemarle County, Va.; and other items.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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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...

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Elizabeth Pendleton Coles was the daughter of Edmund Pendleton (1823-1899), member of the first graduating class at the Virginia Military Institute, 1842; lawyer in Botetourt County, Va., Cincinnati, Ohio, and New Orleans, La., before the Civil War; colonel of the 15th Louisiana Regiment in the Army of Northern Virginia; lawyer in Buchanan and Lexington, Va., after the war; and member of the Virginia state legislature, 1869. She was the second wife of Walter Coles, whom she married in 1972. Thei...

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Harry Innes was involved, at the time this letter was written, in what is now termed the Spanish Conspiracy. The conspiracy involved Kentucky petitioning to become an independent state and then entering into an alliance with Spain. This would be benificial to Kentucky economically while protecting Spain's valuable colony, Mexico. This alliance plan failed after the defeat of the Jay-Gardoqui Treaty. The treaty would have forbidden United States navigation of the Mississippi River for twenty-five...

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