I93626: Mirena Leonora BOOKER (21 Feb 1839

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A Major and Aide-de-campt to General Greene of the continental Army; an original Member of the Society of the Cincinnati in the State of Virginia; second to Alexander Hamilton in the Burr-Hamilton duel, and a distinguished Jurist in New York City after the Revolution; gd. father to "Gentleman" George Hunt Pendleton and others.

"PENDLETON, Nathaniel, 1756-1821: PENDLETON, Nathaniel, (nephew of Edmund Pendleton and cousin of John Penn), a Delegate from Georgia; born in New Kent County, Va., in 1756; entered the Revolutionary Army at the age of 19 years; aide-de-camp to Gen. Nathanael Greene in the campaigns in the Southern States; at the close of the war settled in Georgia and studied law, ultimately becoming a district judge; elected a delegate to the Federal Convention of 1787 but did not attend; appointed to a Federal judgeship in Georgia in 1789 and served until 1796 when he resigned; elected to the Continental Congress in 1789 but did not attend; moved to New York City in 1796 and practiced law; served as a second to Alexander Hamilton in Hamilton’s duel with Aaron Burr; died in Hyde Park, N.Y., October 20, 1821; interment in St. James’ Churchyard."

1st Virginia Regiment:
Pendleton: Col., 242, 263;
Capt., 242; Edmund, 5, 8, 9, 12;
Edward, 4; J., 331;
James, 339, 347, 377; John, 184;
Nathaniel, 56, 115, 116, 121, 331; Susan (Bard), 331

"Nathaniel Pendleton Jr was the nephew of Edmund Pendleton and cousin of John Penn, a delegate from Georgia; entered the Revolutionary Army at the age of 19 years; he became a member of the Minutemen of Culpeper County, Virginia, and was captured and imprisoned by the British. He was aide-de-camp to General Nathaniel Greene with the rank of Major in the Continental Army. At the close of the war he settled in Georgia and studied law, ultimately becoming a district judge."

IV. Nathaniel Pendleton((4)) (Nathaniel((3)), Henry((2)), Philip((1))), entered the army of the first rebellion at the same time and in the same company with his brother, Judge Henry, afterwards of South Carolina, and, I am informed, with a third brother at the same time, but which one I do not know (John S. Pendleton).

This I learn as to the third brother from Daniel F. Slaughter, a son of Captain Philip Slaughter, cousin german to the brothers Pendleton, who volunteered for the war on the same day. Nathaniel continued in the army until the close of the war, and left it as colonel on the staff of General Greene. He then commenced the practice of law in Savannah, Ga., where he remained until the death of his friend, General Greene. He then left it, and established himself at the bar of the city of New York, where he soon achieved distinction and success, some years before the close of the last century. Of his professional career I know but little, except that he was an intimate friend of Rufus King, and Alexander Hamilton, and that he stood by Hamilton in his affair with Aaron Burr, and acted as his executor after he had fallen. Nathaniel Pendleton met with a young lady in Savannah, Susan Bard, whom he married and carried with him to New York. He was born 1746; died in New York October 20, 1821. Issue:

PENDLETON, Nathaniel, jurist, was born in Culpeper county, Va., in 1756. He joined the Revolutionary army, 1775; was promoted brevet-major, serving as aide-de-camp to Gen. Nathanael Greene, and received the thanks of congress for his gallantry at Eutaw Springs, S.C., Sept. 8, 1781. On the close of the war he studied law in Georgia and was subsequently appointed U.S. district judge. He was proposed to President Washington as a candidate for the office of secretary of state, but was objected to by Alexander Hamilton, who afterward became his friend and for whom Pendleton acted as second in his duel with Aaron Burr. He was a delegate to the Federal constitutional convention in 1787, but was not present when the constitution of the United States was signed. He was a member of the Virginia Society of the Cincinnati. In 1796 he settled in practice in New York city, where he married his second wife, Susan, daughter of Dr. John Bard (q.v.). He became judge of Duchess county, residing on a farm at Hyde Park, N.Y., where he died, Oct. 20, 1821. (Src: Biographies of Notable Americans, 1904)

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My Southern Family

Mirena Leonora BOOKER

21 Feb 1839 - 14 Jun 1922

ID Number: I93626

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Susanna Marie BRASHEARS

1655 - 1692

ID Number: I45647

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Martha (WIDOW) FERGUSON

ABT 1870 - ____

ID Number: I29726

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Rachel MACKIE

ABT 1759 - ____

ID Number: I62167

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Col.. Nathaniel PENDLETON Jr.

1756 - 20 Oct 1821

ID Number: I1203

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Patsy RUSSELL

ABT 1778 - ____

ID Number: I77705

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Mary SANDIDGE

ABT 1850 - ____

ID Number: I40280

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WILLIAM VENABLES

1155 - 1226

ID Number: I104212

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ELIZABETH WASHINGTON

ABT 1600 - ____

ID Number: I95996

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Andrew Baker WEAVER

19 Oct 1813 - 30 Nov 1893

ID Number: I14188

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HUMPHREY WINGFIELD

ABT 1470 - 1545

ID Number: I68422

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