Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803 to James Madison
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00099.047 Author/Creator: Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803 Place Written: Edmundsbury Type: Autograph letter signed Date: September 25, 1780 Pagination: 2 p. 33 x 22 cm Order a Copy
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. With penciled quotation in later hand on bottom annotating "Hotspur" in Pendleton's letter (quotation from Shakespeare).
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