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- GLC#
- GLC00099.052-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- October 30, 1730
- Author/Creator
- Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803
- Title
- to James Madison
- Place Written
- Edmundsbury
- Pagination
- 2 p. : address : Height: 23 cm, Width: 18 cm
- Language
- English
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
The letter discusses British troops landing in Virginia, their depredations, military movements in the Carolinas and Georgia, and activity in the Virginia House of Delegates. Also mentions: Portsmouth, VA, Hampton, VA, New York, landings of the British Fleet, Augusta, GA, Colonel Tarleton, Colonel Davidson, Lord Cornwallis, General Gates, verbal attacks on Benjamin Franklin, Virginia House of Delegates, and military battles. There are some physical losses on the paper.
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