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	Edmund Pendleton
		Edmund Pendleton was a Virginia politician, lawyer and judge, active in the American Revolutionary War.
		Pendleton served as President of the Virginia Committee of Safety[?] and as President of the Virginia Convention[?] which authorized the Virginia signing of the Declaration of Independence.
		Thomas Jefferson said of Pendleton "Taken in all he was the ablest man in debate I ever met".
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	Edmund Pendleton — Infoplease.com
		Pendleton was a member of the Virginia committee of correspondence, delegate to the First Continental Congress (1774–75), head of the Virginia committee of safety (1775), and president of the convention (1776) that adopted his resolution instructing Virginia delegates to the Continental Congress to propose independence from Britain.
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	Edmund Pendleton Summary
		Edmund Pendleton (1721-1803) was a Virginia politician, lawyer and judge, active in the American Revolutionary War.
		Pendleton was on the Virginia Committee of Correspondence in 1773 and was a delegate to Continental Congress from Virginia in 1774.
		Pendleton served as President of the Virginia Committee of Safety from 16 August 1775 to 5 July 1776 (effectively serving as governor of the colony) and as President of the Virginia Convention which authorized Virginia's signing of the Declaration of Independence.
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	Edmund Pendleton
		PENDLETON, Edmund, statesman, born in Caroline county, Virginia, 9 September, 1721; died in Richmond, Virginia, 23 October, 1803.
		Edmund had few early educational advantages, and began his career in the clerk's office of Caroline county, Virginia He was licensed to practise law in 1744, became a county justice in 1751, and in the following year was elected to the house of burgesses.
		Pendleton was a delegate to the convention that framed the constitution of the United States in 1787, but, not being present on the last day of its proceedings, failed to sign.
	www.famousamericans.net /edmundpendleton (1360 words)

	Edmund Pendleton Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		The American political leader Edmund Pendleton (1721-1803) became a liberal among the Virginia gentry, of which he was a part.
		Edmund Pendleton was born into the Virginia colony's elite on Sept. 9, 1721.
		After a period of retirement from politics, Pendleton was elected president of the Virginia convention of 1788, called to ratify the Federal Constitution.
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	Caroline County Edmond Pendleton
		Edmund was a lawyer of modest means who had received his education in the local clerk's office He immediately became a leader in the House Of Burgesses.
		Pendleton was elected president of the Virginia convention and later was elected the chair for the House of Delegates which sat under the new constitution.
		In 1907, the remains of Judge Edmund Pendleton, his two wives and infant were disinterred from his burial ground in the presence of the Reverend Goodwin of Bruton Parish Church in Williamsburg and his great-great neice Charlotte Pendleton.
	www.co.caroline.va.us /edmond.html (831 words)

	Edmund Pendleton - James Joyce \| Bid Adieu to Girlish Days
		A long-time resident of Paris and man of considerable culture, Pendleton was a friend of James Joyce, Pablo Picasso, and Ernest Hemingway.
		Pendleton was a long-time resident of Paris, where he befriended such notable writers and artists as James Joyce, Pablo Picasso, and Ernest Hemingway.
		Edmund Pendleton died on January 1, 1987, and is buried in Guitrancourt Cemetery at Yvelines, near Paris, beside his wife Aline.
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	EDMUND PENDLETON - New York Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		LEAD: Edmund Pendleton, organist at the American Church in Paris for 40 years and a composer and choirmaster, died Friday at his Paris home, his family said today.
		Edmund Pendleton, organist at the American Church in Paris for 40 years and a composer and choirmaster, died Friday at his Paris home, his family said today.
		Pendleton was music critic of The New York Herald Tribune's Paris edition for 20 years and taught music at the American College in Paris.
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	PENDLETON, Edmund (1721-1803) Guide to Research Papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Edmund Pendleton was John Taylor’s legal guardian since he was six years old, and wrote this biographical sketch as a defense against newspaper charges made during the 1800 presidential election accusing John Taylor of anarchism, office-seeking, and other misconduct.
		In the letter, Edmund Pendleton discusses the resignation of Patrick Henry citing Patrick Henry’s desire to be a general and his blaming the Virginia Committee of Safety when he failed to obtain that post.
		In the letter, Edmund Pendleton writes regarding prospects for independence, the establishment of a “Court” for Richard Henry Lee to receive dignitaries while in Europe, the death of William Pitt, and a land dispute between Maryland and Virginia.
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	Edmund Pendleton -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Edmund Pendleton (1721-1803) was a (A state in the eastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies; one of the Confederate States in the American Civil War) Virginia politician, lawyer and judge, active in the (The revolution of the American colonies against Great Britain; 1775-1783) American Revolutionary War.
		When Virginia appointed a Supreme Court of Appeals in 1778, Pendleton was appointed its first President where he served until his death.
		Thomas Jefferson said of Pendleton: "Taken in all he was the ablest man in debate I ever met".
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	Edmund Pendleton - LoveToKnow 1911
		EDMUND PENDLETON (1721-1803), American lawyer and statesman, was born, of English Royalist descent, in Caroline county, Virginia, on the 9th of September 1721.
		He was self-educated, but after reading law and being admitted to the bar (1744) his success was immediate.
		This page was last modified 13:08, 6 Oct 2006.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Edmund_Pendleton (262 words)

	Edmund Pendleton
		Edmund Pendleton was another sterling example of public service to a fledgling nation.
		Pendleton received little in the way of formal education, was apprenticed to Colonel Benjamin Robinson, Clerk of Court of Caroline County, at age thirteen, and began practicing law at age twenty.
		When the Delegates established the Court of Chancery in 1778, Pendleton was nominated as a judge and then elected as the President of that Court in 1779.
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	Search Results for "Pendleton"
		Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803, American jurist and political leader in the American Revolution, b.
		He was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1847 and served (1854-56) in the state senate.
		Camp Pendleton, a large U.S. marine base, adjoins the city, which is chiefly...
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	Janet's Genealogy
		Nathaniel Pendleton Jr was the nephew of Edmund Pendleton and cousin of John Penn, a delegate from Georgia; entered the Revolutionary Army at the age of 19 years; he became a member of the Minutemen of Culpeper County, Virginia, and was captured and imprisoned by the British.
		Edmund Pendleton was killed in battle, in the last campaign of the Civil War, in Spottsylvania County, Va., whilst a lieutenant in a company of cavalry commanded by his brother, John.
		Edmund JR (Edmund Pendleton "JR", John, Henry, Philip) was born April 18, 1774 in Caroline County, Virginia, and died January 23, 1847.
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	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		He was undoubtedly the Edmund Pendleton of Stratford, Conn., who served as a private in Capt. Isaiah Baldwin's mounted company, Col. Andrew Burr's regiment, from Aug. 7th to Aug. 23rd, 1757, at the time of the alarm for the reelief of Fort William Henry and "adjacent vicinity." (Conn. Hist.
		Pendleton states that David was wounded at the battle near Ridgefield, Conn. (26th April, 1777), and that he always maintained a great interest in all matters relating to the War of Independence, collecting quite a library bearing upon that subject.
		Pendleton was not released from captivity until the 8th of Feby.
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	Pendleton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pendleton Murrah (1824–1865), American politician, governor of Texas during the American Civil War
		Chris Pendleton (born 1982), American amateur wrestler, winner of the NCAA Division I wrestling titles in 2004 and 2005
		Edmund Pendleton (1721–1803), American politician, lawyer, and judge, delegate to the Continental Congress from Virginia
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	Early History of Pendleton County
		Pendleton County was created by an act of the Virginia General Assembly on December 4, 1787 from parts of Augusta, Harding and Rockingham counties (Virginia).
		Edmund Pendleton was born in Caroline County, Virginia on September 9, 1721.
		In 1790, when the first national census was taken, Pendleton County had the seventh largest population (2,452) of the nine counties that were then in existence and fell within the current boundaries of West Virginia.
	www.polsci.wvu.edu /ccawv/ahistory/penhistory.html (738 words)

	Pendleton County Economic & Community Development Authority (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Pendleton County was created by an act of the Virginia General Assembly on December 4, 1787 from parts of Augusta, Hardy and Rockingham counties (Virginia).
		Edmund Pendleton was born in Caroline County, Virginia on September 9, 1721.
		In 1790, when the first national census was taken, Pendleton County had the seventh largest population (2,452) of the nine counties that were then in existence and fell within the current boundaries of West Virginia.
	www.pendletoncounty.com /pen-hist.htm (783 words)

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	Barbarowa Change Log: Edmund PENDLETON, Jr.
		Both Edmund and his wife were living in 1786, asshown by the will of their son, Solomon (Appendix VII), which reads: "Inconsideration of the care and tenderness of my dear parents to me in myinfancy I do give and bequeath unto my brother Daniel five hundred poundssterling the value thereof in landed property,.
		On the 29th of January, 1789, William Pendleton was appointedadministrator on Estate of Edmund Pendleton, late of Stratford, deceased(Strantford Conn. Probate rec., ii, 19).
		Edmund-4 Pendleton's marriage evidently did not occur until he was amiddle-aged man. Five of his sons took active parts in the Rebolutionarywar, and the record of their services shows them to have formed anexceedingly patriotic family.
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	W.K. Pendleton
		When W. Pendleton was thirteen, he and his younger brother entered the school of Jeremiah C. Harris who in those days was looked upon as the "prince of the pedagogues." After finishing here, Pendleton went to a classical academy conducted by W. Nelson.
		Pendleton's third wife was Catherine Huntington King of Warren, Ohio, whom he married on September 19, 1855.
		While Pendleton was acting as State Superintendent of Public Schools, the Governor of West Virginia requested him to select and suitably inscribe the West Virginia Memorial Stone for the Washington Monument in Washington, D. This stone may be found at the two hundred foot landing of the monument.
	www.therestorationmovement.com /pendleton,wk.htm (1774 words)

	KCOJ - Pendleton County, Kentucky
		Pendleton County, the twenty-eighth county in order of formation, is located in north-central Kentucky in the Outer Bluegrass region.
		The county was created on December 13, 1798, from portions of Campbell and Bracken counties and was named after Edmund Pendleton (17211803), a longtime member of the Virginia House of Burgesses (1752-74) and the Continental Congress.
		Pendleton, "the county that came back," nevertheless lost one-third of its residents at the height of the economic crisis.
	www.kycourts.net /Counties/Pendleton_text.asp (921 words)

	Edmund Pendleton Gaines
		GAINES, Edmund Pendleton, soldier, born in Culpepper County, Virginia, 20 March, 1777" died in New Orleans, Louisiana, 6 June, 1849.
		James Gaines, his father, commanded a company in the Revolutionary war, was a member of the North Carolina legislature, and took part in the convention that ratified the Federal constitution.
		Edmund early showed a preference for a military life.
	www.famousamericans.net /edmundpendletongaines (1342 words)

	A Day in the Life -- Colonial Williamsburg
		Edmund Pendleton (1721-1803) was orphaned and, at age 14, apprenticed to the Caroline County Court clerk.
		He was practicing law in the county court by age 21 and was qualified to practice before the General Court--Virginia's highest court--by age 24.
		A well respected lawyer, Pendleton was also a conservative patriot leader.
	www.history.org /History/teaching/Dayseries/webactivities/revolution/bio_pendleton.htm (82 words)

	Early History of Pendleton County
		Pendleton County was created by an act of the Virginia General Assembly adopted on December 4, 1787, and effective as of May 1, 1788, from parts of Augusta, Harding and Rockingham counties (Virginia).
		In 1756, Seybert's Fort, named for Captain Jacob Seybert of Pendleton County and located about 12 miles west of Franklin, was built by the settlers as a place of refuge during Indian uprisings.
		Most of Pendleton County's residents sided with the Confederacy during the Civil War, though there were pockets of support for the Union.
	www.polsci.wvu.edu /wv/Pendleton/penhistory.html (1708 words)

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