Nathaniel Pendleton (1756–1821)
Nathaniel Pendleton, lawyer and jurist, was born on 27 October 1756 in Virginia. He rose to the rank of lieutenant in the Revolutionary War, serving as an aide-de-camp to Nathanael Greene. In 1785 he married Susan Bard (d. 1816), the daughter of a friend of Benjamin Franklin. Pendleton practiced law in Savannah, Georgia, and served as a state legislator, state attorney general, and delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1787 (although he was not present at the signing).
Katherine Cox Gottschalk and John Bailey Calvert Nicklin, "The Pendleton Family (Continued)," The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 40, Number 4 (October 1932), 383–91.
Broadus Mitchell, "Alexander Hamilton, His Friends and Foes," The Historian, Volume 19, Number 2 (February 1957), 132–43.
Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton (New York: The Penguin Press, 2004), 687.
Guide to the Nathaniel Pendleton Family Papers, Yale University Library Manuscripts and Archives, New Haven, Connecticut.
Guide to the Papers of Nathaniel Pendleton, New-York Historical Society Museum and Library, New York City.
Philadelphia Inquirer, 24 October 1821, page 3, column 1 (Newspapers.com).
Nathaniel Pendleton at Federal Judicial Center.
Nathaniel Pendleton at Find a Grave.
Nathaniel Pendleton Jr. at FamilySearch.