Letter to Edmund Pendleton, 1776

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Letter to Edmund Pendleton, 1776

1776

Henry asks Pendleton to notify the General Assembly to elect a councillor in place of Fielding Lewis who is unable to serve because of ill health.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7600072

University of Virginia. Library

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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...

Henry, Patrick, 1736-1799

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Patrick Henry (May 29, 1736 – June 6, 1799) was an American attorney, planter, politician, and orator known for declaring to the Second Virginia Convention (1775): "Give me liberty, or give me death!" A Founding Father, he served as the first and sixth post-colonial Governor of Virginia, from 1776 to 1779 and from 1784 to 1786. Henry was born in Hanover County, Virginia, and was for the most part educated at home. After an unsuccessful venture running a store, and assisting his father-in-law ...

Lewis, Fielding, 1725-1781 or 1782

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Virginia planter; brother-in-law of George Washington; member of the House of Burgesses and Committee of Correspondence. From the description of ALS : Fredericksburg, Va., to George Washington, 1776 Mar. 6. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 145506936 ...

Virginia. Council

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In pre-Revolutionary Virginia, the Council was a governing body comprising 11 Virginians appointed by the crown. From the guide to the An address of the Council, 1769 November 8, (John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation) ...