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Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803 to James Madison

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00099.090 Author/Creator: Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803 Place Written: Edmundsbury Type: Autograph letter signed Date: June 17, 1782 Pagination: 2 p. 34 x 21 cm Order a Copy

News of the War in West Indies, situation at Charleston, S.C., plight of Pendleton's nephew, a British prisoner there, acknowledgment of U.S. Independence by the Dutch (John Adams, Ambassador), powers of Congress, settlement of pre-war merchant debt, finances of Virginia and war debt.

Mentions: West Indies, Richmond (Va.), Count Rochambeau, Count De Grasse, Military rumors, Baltimore (Md.), Gen. Greene, Charleston (S.C.), Harry Pendleton, Gen. Leslie, Lord Cornwallis, trade with Britain, Powers of Congress, War debt.

Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803
Adams, John, 1735-1826
Madison, James, Sr., 1723-1801
Rochambeau, Jean-Baptiste-Donatien de Vimeur, comte de, 1725-1807
Grasse, François Joseph Paul de Grasse, comte de, 1722-1788
Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786
Pendleton, Harry, fl. 1782
Leslie, Alexander, 1731-1794
Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, Marquis, 1738-1805

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