Edmund Pendleton's Home
Six miles southeast is the site of Edmundsbury, home of Edmund Pendleton. Pendleton, born September 9, 1721, was in the House of Burgesses; a delegate to the Continental Congress; chairman of the Virginia Committee of Safety, 1775-6; president of the May 1776 convention and the convention that ratified the United States constitution, 1788; president of the Virginia supreme court. He died, October 26, 1803, and was buried there but was later removed to Williamsburg.
Marker is on Richmond turnpike (U.S. 301) 0.2 miles north of Sparta Road, on the right when traveling north.
Courtesy hmdb.org
