1To George Washington from Nathaniel Pendleton, 12 May 1789 (Washington Papers)
Notwithstanding the arduous, and important affairs in which your Excellency must be deeply Engaged at this time, I beg leave to intrude on a moment of your time while I add my feeble voice to the millions who celebrate their own good Fortune, in seeing Your Excellency at the head of our public Counsels; under a form of Government perfected and established by the influence of your wisdom &...
2To George Washington from Nathaniel Pendleton, 23 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
Having seen the Bill for establishing the judiciary department of the Government of the United States, by which a Judge is to be appointed to hold a district inferior Court in each State, I presume to trouble your highness with an application for that appointment. As I have not had the happiness of any other opportunity to be personally known to your Highness, than what arose from one or two...
3Enclosure V: Letter from Nathaniel Pendleton, 4 June 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
In consequence of an application from the executors of the late General Greene, to relate what I know, concerning his securityship, for the payment of certain monies for John Banks and others, I have written the following statement of facts, which is all, I can remember; and many of them happening so long since, and having no written memorials to refer to, I cannot exactly ascertain or...
4To George Washington from Nathaniel Pendleton, 5 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
I am informed Mr Rutledge has lately accepted the appointment of Cheif Justice of the State of South Carolina, which will of course oblige him to resign his office of Assistant Justice in the supreme Court of the United States. When I solicited the Appointment of Judge of this District, I imagined Congress would have made a more ample provision for their Judges; but having, at my own...
5To George Washington from Nathaniel Pendleton, 30 July 1796 (Washington Papers)
It is with reluctance I find myself Obliged to resign the appointment I hold in the judicial department as judge of the district of Georgia—The duty I owe to my children compels me to quit an office, the compensation for which will not afford me the means of giving them an education suitable to their condition. I have therefore determined to resign on the first day of September next, which...
6Nathaniel Pendleton’s Memorandum on a Conversation between Alexander Hamilton and Ebenezer Purdy, [25 February 1804] (Hamilton Papers)
On Saturday the 25th of february 1804 I went with General Hamilton to the lodgings of Judge Purdy in Albany who was at home. General H. said that he had called on Mr. Purdy, supposing he had had sufficient time for reflection, to know who was the person alluded to in the conversation he had had with him a day or two before when Mr. Kane was present. Mr. Purdy said he had thought of it, but had...
7Nathaniel Pendleton’s First Account of Alexander Hamilton’s Conversation at John Tayler’s House, [25 June 1804] (Hamilton Papers)
General Hamilton says he cannot imagine to what Doctr. Cooper may have alluded unless it were to a conversation at Mr. Taylors in Albany last winter, (at which Mr. Taylor he & General H—— were present). Genl H—— cannot recollect distinctly the particulars of that conversation so as to undertake to repeat them, without runing the risk of varying or omitting what might be deemed important...
8Nathaniel Pendleton’s Second Account of Alexander Hamilton’s Conversation at John Tayler’s House, [25 June 1804] (Hamilton Papers)
In answer to a letter properly adapted to obtain from General Hamilton a declaration whether he had charged Colo Burr with any particular instance of dishonorable conduct, or had impeached his private character, either in the conversation alluded to by Doctr. Cooper, or any other particular instance to be specified. He would be able to answer consistently with his Honor, and the truth, in...
9Nathaniel Pendleton to William P. Van Ness, 26 June 1804 (Hamilton Papers)
I have communicated to General Hamilton the letter you did me the honor to write me of this date. The expectations now disclosed as on the part of Colo. Burr, appear to him to have greatly changed and extended the original ground of inquiry, and instead of presenting a particular and definite case for explanation, seem to aim at nothing less than an inquisition into his most confidential, as...
10Nathaniel Pendleton’s First Statement of the Regulations for the Duel, [4 July 1804] (Hamilton Papers)
1. To leave this Island from different points in two boats precisely at five Oclock on Saturday P M and to proceed to the place proposed. The party first arriving will wait the landing of the other; each boat shall be rowed by four confidential persons only, who shall remain in their respective boats untill called for. These persons are not to be armed in any manner whatever. There will be but...