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Richard Wibird, Sr., had a brother, Anthony, to whom and to Anthony's daughter he made bequests in his will. The wife of Richard Wibird I have given as Elizabeth Redford, according to the best anthority (Brewster). Adams says he married a Mistress Due. Both of these authorities may be correct as Elizabeth, born about 1669, would have been thirty years old the year Richard Wibird married, and he might have been once or twice a widower.
William Redford died 1698 or 99. Elizabeth Due was the daughter of Thomas Dne, shipwright. Her mother married for a second husband, John Baker, "carrier," of Portsmouth. This John Baker left by will £10 to give to his daughter-in-law, Elizabeth Due, having previously made provision for his son Benjamin and his daughter Bethulah.
SHERBURNE.
It has been stated that Judge Richard Evans married (in 1810) Ann Wendell Penhallow, daughter of Samuel Penhallow and Hannah, daughter of Henry Sherburne.
Samuel Penhallow, fourth child and third son of John and Sarah (Wentworth) Penhallow, b. June 9, 1757; d. April 20, 1805. Married (January 25, 1784) Hannah, daughter of Henry Sherburne.
The Hon. Henry Sherburne, one of the King's Council and Chief Justice of New Hampshire, 1735 to 1746, married a daugh- ter of Lieutenant-Governor .John Wentworth. Of their children :
Hon. John Sherburne, one of the committee chosen at the time of the act to prevent the importation and sale of tea, was Judge of Probate, 1773 to 1776, and councillor until the end of the provincial government. He died March 10, 1797, aged seventy- seven. He married Elizabeth Moffat, eldest child and daughter of Hon. John and Catherine (Cutt) Moffatt. They had children :
Samuel Moffatt Sherburne, married (February 1, 1764) Sarah Catherine Mason, daughter of Col. John Tifton Mason and his wife, Maria Teresa Van Hertz Bergen. Samuel Moffatt Sher- burne graduated from Harvard in 1758. His father-in-law, Col. Mason, was an officer in the British Army and died at Bucden, England, August 8, 1787, aged seventy-four years.
This Col. Mason was heir by entail of the grant to his ancestor,
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John Mason, in 1623, by King James I, embracing what is now the greater part of New Hampshire. This John Mason was president and secretary of the company of "Noblemen and Gentlemen," known as the "Council of Plymouth," established in 1620, for the "planting and governing of New England, in America." He was at the time, "Governor of Newfoundland," "Governor of the Castle of Portsmouth," England, etc.
John Samuel Sherburne, son of the Hon. John Sherburne and Elizabeth Moffatt, was a member of the First and Second Con- gresses of Philadelphia. He was U. S. District Attorney, Judge of the Admiralty Court, etc., etc. He married (December, 1776) Summitt Boyd, daughter of Hon. George and Jane (Brewster) Boyd. They had issue :
I. William Sherburne.
II. John Henry Sherburne. Married Mary Hall, Sept., 1812.
III. Charles Fox Sherburne.
IV. Julia Sherburne. Married Lewis F. Horton.
Mrs. Summit (Boyd) Sherburne d. Feb. 28, 1803.
Elizabeth Sherburne, daughter of Hon. John and Elizabeth (Moffat) Sherburne, married Hon. John Langdon, LL. D., Febru- ary 3, 1776 or '77. They had issue :
I. Eliza Langdon, b. Dec. 1777; d. Aug. 8, 1860.
Hon. John Langdon died Sept. 18, 1819. He was born June 25, 1741. Mr. E. S. Langdon died March 2, 1813.
The Hon. John Langdon was son of John and Mary (Hall) Langdon.
In 1775-1776 John Langdon was a delegate to the general con- gress. He was present at Burgoyne's surrender in command of a company. He served in Rhode Island and was present when Gen. Sullivan brought off the American troops. He was a member and speaker of the Provincial Legislature in 1776-1777.
When Ticonderoga fell, the public credit exhausted and the people discouraged, the President. John Langdon, rose from his chair and said :
"I have a thousand dollars in hard money. I will pledge my plate for three thousand more. I have seventy barrels of Tobago rum, which may be sold. They are at the service of the State. If we succeed in the defence of our homes and firesides I may be remunerated, if not then the property would be of no value to me. Our friend Stark, who so nobly maintained the honor of our State
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at Bunker Hill, may safely be entrusted with the honor of this enterprise, and we will check the progress of Burgoyne."
From this noble offer sprang the gallant little army of Stark, which covered itself with glory at Bennington.
John Langdon was Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in 1776 and 1778. He was agent of the United States for building ships of war. He was continental agent for supplying the "America 74." In 1779 he was president of the New Hampshire Convention for regulating the currency, and from 1777 to 1782 was Speaker of the New Hampshire House of Representatives. In 1780 he was a commissioner to raise men and provide provisions for the army. June 30, 1783, he was again elected delegate to Congress. In 1784-1785 he was a member of the New Hampshire Senate and in the latter year President of the Senate. In 1788 he was a delegate to the convention which formed the Constitution of the United States. In 1788 he was elected a representative in the New Hampshire Legislature, and became Speaker of the House, but took the office of Governor, to which he was simultaneously chosen. In November, 1788, he was elected to the U. S. Senate, became the presiding officer of that body, and was re-elected senator in 1794. He was nominated for Vice-President of the United States but declined on account of age. In 1801-5 he was representative in the New Hampshire Legislature. In 1804-5 he was Speaker. In 1810-11 he was again Governor. He was given the degree of LL. D. by Dartmouth College in 1805. He died in Portsmouth, September 18, 1819.
Elizabeth Moffatt married Hon. John Sherburne. They had issue :
I. John Sherburne, d. unmarried, 1753.
II. Henry Sherburne, b. 1755.
III. John Samuel Sherburne, b. 1757. Boyd, Dec., 1776.
Married Summit
IV. Dorothy Sherburne, b. 1759, d. young.
V. Elizabeth Sherburne, b. 1761. Married Hon. John Langdon, Feb. 3, 1776-7; d. March 2, 1813.
John Sherburne married Eleanor Mendum, had an only son :
I. Nathaniel Sherburne married Elizabeth, daughter of Tobias Lear and his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Josiah Hale. They had issue :
I. Eleanor Sherburne, d. aged sixteen years.
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II. John Sherburne, baptized April 5, 1761; d. at sea.
III. Joseph Sherburne, baptized Aug. 18, 1765.
IV. Nathaniel Sherburne, b. Oct. 8, 1764; d. 1794. Married (Jan. 26, 1792) Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel Warner and his wife, Elizabeth Wentworth, daughter of Hunk- ing Wentworth, and granddaughter of the first Gover- nor, John Wentworth.
Robert Cutt (brother of President John Cutt), and Mary Hoel, his wife, had a second daughter, Bridget, who married (July 23, 1674) Rev. William Sereven, who immigrated from Somerset, England. The Screvens afterwards removed to South Carolina and married into the Landgrave Smith family, of that state, from which descended Robert Mills who married Eliza Barnwell Smith, a lineal descendant of Edward Jaquelin, of Jamestown. (See Mills.)
Robert, the younger child of Robert and Mary (Hoel) Cutt, b. 1673, married Dorcas Hammond, daughter of Major Joseph and Catherine (Frost) Hammond, April 16, 1698. Catherine Frost was a sister of Major Charles Frost, "Commander in Chief of the West Province of Maine." He died September 24, 1735, aged eighty-three years. They left four danghters.
I. Mary Cutt, married (May 16, 1722) Capt. William Whipple, son of Mathew and Joanna (Appleton) Whipple. Capt. Whipple was a native of Ipswich, Mass. They had five children.
Their eldest son, William Whipple, was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence: Their second son, Joseph, became Collector of Customs at Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Their oldest daughter married Robert Traill, of Boston, and was the ancestor of the famous poet and essayist, James Russell Lowell. Capt. William Whipple was a lineal descendant of Elder John Whipple who came from Essex, England, before 1639, to Ipswich, Mass.
James Russell Lowell, youngest son and child of Rev. Charles and Harriet Brackett (Spence) Lowell, b. February 22, 1819, at Cambridge, Mass. His first wife, Maria White, was gifted as a poet. His second wife, Frances Dunlap, was equally gifted.
Few men are born to fill such eminent positions, as stateman,
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diplomat, literateur, poet, essayist, critic and professor, as James Russell Lowell.
Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber is also a lineal descendant of the Penhallows. He was born July 12, 1814; d. November 25, 1890. On May 26, 1859, he married Ann Tappan de Rochemont, and by her had eight children, but one of whom lived to maturity.
He was editor of the Boston Post for ten years, from 1841 to 1851-3. He was also editor of a comie paper called the Carpet Bag. From 1856 to 1866 he was editor of the Saturday Evening Gazelle, of Boston. As "Mrs. Partington," he has a foremost place among American humorists.
Daniel Warner, b. in Ipswich, Mass., May 20, 1699, married by Rev. Hugh Adams, December 15, 1720, to Sarah Hill, daughter of Valentine Hill, and granddaughter of Governor Theophilus Easton, of Connecticut. They had issue :
I. Sarah Warner. b. March 16, 1722.
II. Daniel Warner, b. Dee. 28, 1723; d. in England, Sept. 21, 1746.
III. Jonathan Warner, b. Sept. 6, 1726; d. May 14, 1824.
IV. Nathaniel Warner, b. April 1, 1729; d. at sea, unmarried.
V. William Warner, b. May 29, 1731; d. Oct. 3, 1733.
VI. Samuel Warner, b. May 31, 1733; d. April 2, 1734.
VII. William Warner, b. Aug. 14, 1734.
VIII. Samuel Warner, b. Aug., 1737; d. Sept. 10, 1771.
Sarah Warner, b. March 16, 1722, married (Oct. 2, 1740) Henry Sherburne. They had four daughters :
I. One married Hon. Woodbury Langdon.
II. One married John Wendell, of Portsmouth.
III. One died unmarried.
IV. Hannah Sherburne. Married Samuel Penhallow.
Jonathan Warner, third child of Daniel and Sarah (Hill) Warner, married (May 5, 1748, at Col. Atkinson's, by Rev. Mr. Brown) Mary, daughter of Temple Nelson and his wife, who was a daughter of Hon. John Wentworth, Lieut. Governor of New Hampshire. They had an only child Polly Warner. married Col. Nathaniel Sherburne.
Samuel Warner, eighth child of Daniel and Sarah (Hill) Warner married (October 8. 1761) Elizabeth Wentworth, b. July 30, 1739, daughter of Hon. Hunking Wentworth. Their daughter, Elizabeth, b. January 15, 1769, married Col. Nathaniel Sherburne.
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CHAPTER X
THE PENDLETON FAMILY.
MANEO QUALIS MANEBAM.
Pendleton.
COAT-OF-ARMS
The arms of Pendleton are taken from English records and are described as follows :
Arms-Gules, an inescutcheon argent, between four escallops (or shells) or.
Crest-On a chapeau gules, turned up ermine, a demi-dragon, wings expanded, or, holding an escallop (or shell) argent.
Motto-Maneo Qualis Manebam.
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Three miles from Manchester, in Lancashire County, England, is the town of Pendleton, known as a portion of Salfordborough. Over the door of one of the inns swings the arms of the Pendle- ton family, exactly like those brought to America by the emigrant, Philip Pendleton. Some little distance off is the manor house, occupied still by a family of Pendletons, and around the old church are the tombs of departed Pendletons. Here we pause, feeling ourselves aliens in our father's house. Under that roof tree are the records that would carry us back along the line of English history until we found the ancestor whose bravery in the Crusades, won him the right to place upon his shield the silver pilgrim's shells, which form a distinctive feature of the coat-of-arms. The family evidently belonged to the English gentry, a purer and prouder distinction oftentimes than many of the titles which have changed hands and family names many times as they come down the avenue of ages.
The first name upon the Virginia record is that of George Pen- dleton, Esquire, of the town of Pendleton, Lancashire, England. His son was George Pendleton, who married, sometime in the fifteenth century, Elizabeth Pettingall, daughter of John Pettin- gall, Gentleman, of Norwich, Norfolk County. George Pendleton moved to Norwich, and was buried at St. Stephen's, Norwich, in 1613. His eldest son was Henry Pendleton, who married in 1605 Susan Carmyer, at St. Simeon and St. Jude's. He was buried on July 15, 1635, at St. Stephen's, Norwich. His third son was Henry Pendleton who married Elizabeth This gives four generations on English soil, carrying us from Pendleton near Manchester, to Norwich.
In 1613, Sir John Pettus and his brother Thomas Pettus both made wills, remembering their cousins, Henry and Susan Pendle- ton, of Norwich, leaving them property in that city. These gentle- men lived at Cristree, St. Edmund's, near Norwich. Thomas Pettus, the son of one of these men, was one of the early councilors of the Colony, and probably influenced his consins to come to Virginia. The two sons of Henry and Elizabeth Pendleton came to Virginia in 1674, Philip, a young teacher, and Nathaniel, a minister of the Church of England. Nathaniel died very soon, leaving no children.
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FIRST GENERATION.
I. Philip Pendleton1, the emigrant, was born in 1650. He was, therefore, twenty-four years of age, when he came to Vir- ginia in 1674. In 1680 he returned to England, and tradition
JUDGE EDMUND PENDLETON, OF EDMUNDSBURG, CAROLINE CO., VA. Died Oct. 23, 1803, aged 82 years
says he was married, and his wife died. There may be no founda- tion for this. In 1682 he returned to the colony and married
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Isabella Hart, or Hurt. He is said to have lived in New Kent County, but the parish records of that county, which are very early and very full, do not contain the names of any Pendletons. It is more probable that he lived in King and Queen County, Va. He signed a deed in Essex County in 1677, and his son, Henry, signed one there in 1719, and is designated as being from King and Queen County, Va. Philip died in 1721, the same year his son Henry died, and the same year his illustrious grandson, Edmund Pendleton, was born. He was probably a man of quiet tastes and not progressive enough to build up a large estate, as many of his contemporaries did. Issue :
I. Henry Pendleton2, b. 1683; d. 1721. Married (1701), Mary Taylor, of Carlisle, England. She married second, Edward Walkins, and died 1772, aged 83 years.
II. Elizabeth Pendleton2. Married Samuel Clayton, of Caro- line Co., Va. Issue : Philip, of "Catalpa."
III. Rachel Pendleton2. Married John Vass.
IV. Catherine Pendleton2. Married John Taylor, brother of Mary Taylor.
John Pendleton2, b. 1691; d. 1775. Married - Tins- ley, of Madison Co., Va.
VI. Isabella Pendleton2, married Richard Thomas. The de- scendants of these are numerous. They both took out land in King and Queen and Spottsylvania Counties in 1728. Richard Thomas died in 1748, and his widow, Isabella, went to live in Drysdale Parish, Caroline County, Va. Their children are uncertain as to num- ber and name. There is a Rowland Thomas and a Jo- seph Thomas mentioned with her in deeds of land. but the relationship is not defined. It is certain though. that her daughter, Mary, married Col. Thomas Bar- bour3 (James2, James1).
Catherine Thomas married Ambrose Barbour (Bar- bour Family, pp. 136-7, St. Mark's Parish, by Dr. Slaughter.) Her son, Richard Thomas, married (1753) Mildred Taylor, Orange County, Va. Their children were Richard, George, James, Thomas (married 1781, Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Pendleton), Sarah Mildred (married John Piper).
VII. Philip Pendleton2, married Elizabeth Pollard.
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SECOND GENERATION.
II. Henry Pendleton2 (Philip1), the eldest son of Philip Pen- dleton, the emigrant, and Isabella Hart, b. 1683. Married (1701) Mary Taylor, daughter of James Taylor, of Carlisle, England, and his second wife, Mary Gregory. Henry was eighteen and Mary thirteen years of age. He died 1721, the same year his youngest son, Edmund, was born. His wife married, second, Ed. Watkins, d. 1770. Of his five sons, the oldest, James, and the third, Na- thaniel, were for many years clerks of the vestry and lay-readers at the small chapels of St. Mark's Parish; and Philip, the son of James, was clerk in 1782, when the vestry books closed. His two daughters married brothers, James and William Henry .Gaines. His youngest son, Edmund, though without his father's care, made for himself a name which will be known and remembered as long as Virginia's sons read her history. By his large circle of nephews and nieces, many of them his own age, he was loved and revered, and the tradition of his kindness and ever ready help is handed down through nearly every branch of the family. Almost all the Pendletons in Virginia trace their descent from Henry Pendleton and Mary Taylor. They had issue :
I. James Pendleton3, b. 1702, d. 1761. Married Mrs. Mary Lyall, of Lancaster County, Va.
II. Philip Pendleton3, b. 1704, d. 1770. Married Martha
III. Mary Pendleton3, b. about 1703. Married William Gaines.
IV. Isabella Pendleton3, b. before 1715. Married James Gaines.
V. Nathaniel Pendleton", b. 1715, d. 1794. Married his first cousin, Miss Clayton.
VI. John Pendleton3, b. 1719; d. 1799. Married, first, Miss James ; second, Miss Madison.
VII. Edmund Pendleton3, b. Sept. 1721, d. Richmond, Oct. 26, 1805, patriot and jurist. Married, first (1741), Eliza- beth Roy, d. same year. Married, second (1743), Sarah Pollard, b. 1225; living in 1792, but childless.
NOTE .- The foregoing paper was found after the death of Edmund Pen- dleton, recorded in his family Bible. It was then one hundred and thirty years since the common ancestor of the Virginia Pendletons came from Norwich to the Colony of Virginia, settling in what is now called King and Queen County, Va. At that time it was included in the boundaries of New Kent.
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II. Elizabeth Pendleton? ( Philip1). Married Samuel Clayton, of Caroline County, Va. Issue :
I. Major Philip Clayton3, of Catalpa. Married Anne Cole- man. Issue :
I. Major Philip Clayton4, of Revolutionary Army.
II. Lucy Clayton+. Married William Williams.
III. Susan Clayton+. Married Col. James Slaughter.
IV. Daughter Clayton+. Married her first cousin, Nathaniel Pendleton.
V. Daughter Clayton4. Married Cuttenden.
II. Nancy Clayton3. Married Jeremiah Strother.
II. Isabella Pendleton2 (Philip1). Married Richard Thomas. Issue :
I. Mary Thomas3. Married Thomas Barbour.
II. Catherine Thomas3. Married Ambrose Barbour. (See Barbour Family.)
II. Catherine Pendleton2 (Philip1). Married John Taylor, son of James Taylor, of Carlisle, England. Issue :
I. Edmund Taylor3. Married Annie Lewis.
II. John Taylor3. Married Miss Lynne.
III. James Taylor3. Married Anne Pollard.
IV. Philip Taylor3. Married Mary Walker.
V. William Taylor3. Married Miss Anderson.
VI. Joseph Taylor3. Married Frances Anderson.
VII. Mary Taylor3. Married Robert Penn.
I. Gabriel Penn4.
VIII. Catherine Taylor3. Married Moses Penn.
I. John Penn+, one of the "Signers."
IX. Isabella Taylor3. Married Samuel Hopkins.
X. Elizabeth Taylor3. Married, first Lewis; mar- ried, second, - Bullock.
II. John Pendleton2 (Philip1), second son of the elder Philip (he who came from England), b. about 1691, and emigrated in company with his younger brother, Philip, to the County of Am- herst, and settled on the eastern slope of the Tobacco Row Moun- tain. Some years thereafter, married Miss Tinsley, of. Madison County, Va., by whom he had thirteen children, eight boys and five girls. He continued to reside in Amherst until his death, which
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occurred about the time of the Revolution (1775). He was buried in the old Pendleton burying ground, near the "Tobacco Row," on the farm now owned by - Ambler. Issue :
I. Benjamin Pendleton3.
II. Isaac Pendleton3.
III. John Pendleton3.
IV. Edmund Pendleton3.
The above four emigrated, immediately after the Revolution, to Kentucky, where many of their descend- ants continue to reside. Soon after their removal to Kentucky, the wife and two children of one of them were captured by the Indians and never heard of after- wards.
V. Richard Pendleton3. Married Miss Tinsley. his first cousin ; left numerous descendants.
VI. Reuben Pendleton3. Married Ann Garland. sister of David S. Garland, of Amherst County, Va.
VII. James Pendleton3. Married Miss Rucker.
VIII. William Pendleton3.
IX. Polly Pendleton3. Married - Whitton.
X. Sally Pendleton3. Married Mahone.
XI. Frances Pendleton3. Married - Cambden. XII. Betty Pendleton3. Married Baldock.
XIII. Margaret Pendleton3. Married Miles.
II. Philip Pendleton2 (Philip1), married Elizabeth Pollard. Issue :
I. Benjamin Pendleton3. Married Mary Macon.
II. Daughter Pendleton3.
THIRD GENERATION.
III. James Pendleton3 (Henry2, Philip1), was the oldest son of Henry and Mary (Taylor) Pendleton, b. about 1701-2; d. 1761. He lived in Culpeper County, Va., and was a very active member of St. Mark's Parish, being often warden and lay reader. Married (1727) Mrs. Mary Lyall, a widow, of Lancaster County, Va. Issue :
I. James Pendleton+. Married Catherine Bowie, daughter of Gov. Bowie, of Maryland.
II. Henry Pendleton+. Married Ann Thomas.
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III. Philip Pendleton4. Married
IV. Annie Pendleton+. Married Taylor.
III. Philip Pendleton3 (Henry", Philip1), b. about 1704 or 1705. The record of his residence, with the names of some of his children, is lost. He probably lived in Caroline County, Va., be- cause he is mentioned in the only record of that county not burned during the Civil War, as witness in a suit in 1768, and as having travelled 30 miles to attend Court. His wife is supposed to have been named Martha - -, because of a deed of sale to his step father. Edward Watkyns, in Culpeper County, Va., signed by Philip Pendleton and his wife, Martha. He is said to have had fifteen children, five of whom were daughters, all married, accord- ing to the records of Judge Pendleton's bible. Of these five daughters :
Mary Pendleton+. Married Col. Edward Waller, second clerk of Spottsylvania.
Jemima Pendleton4. Married Richard Gaines, her first cousin.
Martha Pendletont.
Married Massey Thomas, of Cul-
peper County, Va.
Mildred Pendleton+.
Judith Pendleton+.
Henry Pendleton4. This is proved by the deed in Orange County, Va., of land left to him, to go after his decease to his sister, Mary Waller, recorded in 1742. A great- granddaughter of Philip mentions sons of his :
John Pendleton4.
Philip Pendleton4.
Edmund Pendleton4.
Some of them probably moved West, as did his daugh- ter, Martha. His youngest son, Micajah, lived and died in Amherst County, Va. Philip Pendleton d. 1788. We have records of only four children.
III. Nathaniel Pendleton3 (Henry2, Philip1). b. 1715; d. 1794, Culpeper County, Va. Married his second cousin, Miss Clayton, daughter of his first cousin, Philip Clayton, son of his aunt, Eliza- beth Pendleton, and Samuel Clayton. Nathaniel lived in Culpeper County, and was very active in the Parish of St. Mark's. Issue :
I. Nathaniel Pendleton4, b. 1746; d. 1820. Married Susan Bard.
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II. William Pendleton+, b. 1748. Married Elizabeth Daniel.
III. Henry Pendleton+, b. 1750; d. in South Carolina, Jan., 1789. He is said to have married Anne Knight.
IV. Philip Pendleton+, b. 1752. Married Miss Pendleton. Moved to Martinsburg, Va.
V. Mary Pendleton+. Married John Williams.
VI. Elizabeth Pendleton+. Married Benjamin Tutt.
VII. Susanna Pendleton+. Married Mr. Wilson.
III. John Pendleton3, fourth son of Henry and Mary (Taylor) Pendleton, b. 1719; d. 1799, was in his 58th year at the beginning of the Revolutionary war. He held various offices of honour and trust in the Colony of Virginia, and in the Senate. He was ap- pointed by a convention of delegates of the counties and corpora- tions in the Colony of Virginia, at Richmond Town, on Monday, July 17, 1775, to sign a large issue of Treasury Notes. These notes were issued upon the credit of the colony, taxes and duties having been suspended to suit the distressed circumstances of the Colonists. The issue was about £350,000, and the ordinance read : "Of the notes to be so issued, 50,000 shall be of the denomination of one shilling, and shall be signed by John Pendleton, Jr., Gentle- man, which notes last named shall be on the best paper." John Pendleton was appointed, by the Governor of Virginia, judge of her courts, at a time when they were composed of the leading men of the Colony. (Taken from Hening's Statutes at large, 9th Vol.) Married, first, Miss James; second, Sarah Madison, cousin of President James Madison. Issue by first marriage :
I. Edmund Pendleton4, b. 1744. Married (1764) Mildred Pollard.
II. John Pendleton4.
III. Elizabeth Pendleton+.
IV. Mary Pendleton4.
Issue by second marriage :
V. Henry Pendleton+, b. 1762; d. 1822. Married, first, Alcey Ann Winston; second, Mrs. Mary B. (Overton) Burnley.
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