Inventory of the Edmund Pendleton Letters, 1776-1779

Collection Number 958-z


Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Collection Information
Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Online Catalog Headings
Collection Overview
Contact Information:
Manuscripts Department
CB#3926, Wilson Library
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
Phone: 919/962-1345
Fax: 919/962-3594
Email: mss@email.unc.edu
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Descriptive Summary

Repository
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Creator
Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803.
Title
Edmund Pendleton Letters, 1776-1779.
Call Number
958-z
Language of Materials
Materials in English
Extent
48 items.
Abstract
Letters from Pendleton to his friend, Continental Brigadier General William Woodford (1734-1780), written from Caroline County and Williamsburg, Va., when Pendleton was president of the Virginia Committee of Safety, a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, and a Chancery Court judge. The letters concern public affairs, Revolutionary military campaigns, the army, war measures of the Virginia Assembly, economic conditions, and news from the North, South, and abroad.


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Administrative Information

Acquisitions Information
Acquired 1945
Processing Information
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Additional Descriptive Resources
A more complete finding aid for this collection is available at the Southern Historical Collection.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Edmund Pendleton Letters, #958-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
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Online Catalog Headings

These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.

Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803.
Virginia--Economic conditions.
Virginia--History, Military.
Virginia--Politics and government--1775-1783.
Woodford, William, 1734-1780.
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Collection Overview

Letters from Pendleton to his friend, Continental Brigadier General William Woodford (1734-1780), written from Caroline County and Williamsburg, Va., when Pendleton was president of the Virginia Committee of Safety, a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, and a Chancery Court judge. The letters concern public affairs, Revolutionary military campaigns, the army, war measures of the Virginia Assembly, economic conditions, and news from the North, South, and abroad.