Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty.

In 1737 Pendleton was made clerk of the vestry of St. Family
Edmund was married twice. The Convention also created the Virginia Declaration of Rights which influenced the language of the Declaration of Independence.

Unlike Henry Pendleton was a moderate who initially hoped for reconciliation rather than revolt. He served as the first President of the Supreme Court of Virginia. Edmund Pendleton (September 9 1721 – October 23 1803) was a Virginia politician lawyer and judge active in the American Revolutionary War.