January 10, 1772

Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Madison re: personal and land matters

Mentions: Land sales, Wills, James Chew, Joseph Chew, Thomas Chew, Martha Chew, and Samuel Chew.

GLC00099.037

February 19, 1773

Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Madison re: on land matters

Also mentions: land titles, Wills, Mrs. Johnston.

GLC00099.038

March 13, 1773

Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Madison re: land and political matters

Mentions: land titles, wills, Cornelius Dixon, Rhode Island affair. The watermark suggests that he used Irish paper.

GLC00099.040

July 27, 1773

Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Madison re: land matters

Date from docket. The letter mentions: land sales, Mr. Wood, surveyor, Mr. Robert Allcock, agent, and local politics.

GLC00099.041

August 26, 1773

Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Madison re: land matters and the situation of Virginia

The letter mentions: land sales, Mr. Allcock, Mr. Grymes, seller, finances, and tobacco. "Times are growing very bad in respect to money."

GLC00099.042

November 10, 1773

Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Madison re: land matters

The note is concerning land matters. It also mentions: wills, Cornelius Dixon, Thomas Dixon.

GLC00099.043

October 21, 1779

Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803

Autograph letter

Title: to James Madison

Signature has been clipped-off, affecting postscript: "I fear Roebuck v Roebuck is dismis" Concerning land matters and the closing of Virginia's courts in 1774.

GLC00099.044

November 2, 1779

Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803

Autograph note signed

Title: to James Madison re: land sales

The note mentions Susanna Anne Goodwin and Cornelius and Lyonal Dixon. [refers back to #.040]

GLC00099.045

August 27, 1780

Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Madison re: proposes correspondence, military news

In the letter, Edmund Pendleton proposes to Madison that they should exchange correspondence while Madison serves in Congress. "The rites of [political] friendship." He passes along news of military actions in the South. It mentions General Gates' letter to Congress and the "unhappy affair to the southward." The letter includes other political matters.

GLC00099.046

September 25, 1780

Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Madison

The letter mentions companies engaged in promoting the development of the West, the attack on St. Augustine, Florida, the military draft, and Virginia's claims in Ohio. On the letter there is a penciled quotation in later hand on bottom annotating "Hotspur" in Pendleton's letter (quotation from Shakespeare).

GLC00099.047

October 1, 1780

Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Madison

The letter provides news of George Rogers Clark's expedition in Illinois and Indian conflicts. Also, mentions French fleet and southern military affairs. Docketed by Madison.

GLC00099.048

October 8, 1780

Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Madison

The letter mentions Portsmouth, VA, public executions in Britain and actions of the British fleet and British government. Signature was partially cut along top but not removed from leaf.

GLC00099.049

January 15, 1791

Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Madison re: attack on the Hamilton's Bank of the U.S.

In the letter Pendleton objects to Hamilton's Treasury plan. Also discusses taxes, disposition of public lands, standing army, and peace between Britain and Spain.

GLC00099.145

March 14, 1791

Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Madison

Letter includes political matters. Mentions: objections to Hamilton's Treasury plan, Constitutional definition of position of Speaker of the House. Possibly misdated, should be 1792.

GLC00099.146

December 9, 1781

Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Madison re: transmittal letter of the preceding legal document

Transmittal letter for legal brief in the suit of Jones v. Walker. Page 4 is docketed by Madison: "[illegible] inclosing the discussions in the Circuit Court of the US at Richmond on the subject of 'British Debts'." A pencil note identifies the handwriting as Madison's.

GLC00099.148

February 8, 1792

Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Madison re: suggestions for next Census, attack on Hamilton

The letter comments at length and unfavorably on Hamilton's report on manufactures.

GLC00099.149

April 28, 1792

Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Madison re: trade, anti-Hamilton, lawsuits

GLC00099.150

November 28, 1792

Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803

Autograph letter signed

Title: to "General" James Madison

In the letter, Madison is saluted as "Dear General" as a joke. Also comments on political pamphlets Madison has sent, states clear anti-Hamilton positions, and discusses relations with the French.

GLC00099.151

January 30, 1795

Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Madison

In the letter, Edmund Pendleton discusses the powers of Congress to tax. Also, provides thanks for pamphlets and mentions John Taylor.

GLC00099.152

May 22, 1772

Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Gardner

The letter mentions opinion in a lawsuit over land patents.

GLC00099.154

July 20, 1790

Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Robert Beverley

The letter discusses lands, ownership, and affairs of several Virginia companies formed to speculate in the west. Also mentions the U.S. Treasury.

GLC00099.155

1768 ca.

Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803

Autograph endorsement signed

Title: Note concerning the office of Sheriff

Pendleton's note giving his opinion on a document (written in an unknown hand) concerning the office of Sheriff and one Major Burnley, undated.

GLC00099.015

1791 ca.

Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803

Autograph manuscript

Title: Legal brief in the case of Jones v. Walker

Legal brief in the suit of Jones, surviving partner of Farrell and Jones, of Great Britain, against Thomas Walker, Defendant, in debt on bond before the Federal Circuit Court, Richmond, Va. Entirely in the hand of Edmund Pendleton. Probably 1791. One of the greatest post-war problems in Virginia was the settlement of pre-war debts with English merchants, required by the Treaty of Peace, but virtually impossible in the inflation-ridden, cash poor economy of post-war Virginia. These problems were complicated by the British war depredations there. Pendleton frequently raised this issue…

GLC00099.147

1776/01/21

Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803

Autograph document signed

Title: re permit to John Riddell to take passage to Great Britain

[Continental Congress members]

GLC02471.33

1785/02/20

Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown recipient re: legal and financial issues

GLC07583