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As this work goes to press Miss and Mr. Edmund Pendleton of Laurel, Md., have given order for having the remains of the Hon. Edmund Pendleton removed from near Bowling Green, Caroline Co., Va., to be interred beneath the north aisle of Bruton Parish Church.

Edmund Pendleton was born in 1721, and died in 1803. He was the author of the resolutions offered here in the Virginia House of Burgesses, May 15, 1776, which were unanimously adopted, calling upon Congress to declare the colonies free and independent States. He was President of the Convention in 1775, was subsequently President of the Virginia Court of Appeals, was twice elected to Congress, and in 1788 was chosen President of the Convention of Virginia which met to consider the adoption of the Federal Constitution.

He was for many years a vestryman of Drysdale Parish, and, although one of the most loyal and devoted Churchmen in America, was a member of the Committee which in 1777 drafted the law for establishing "Religious Freedom in Virginia."