1751 - 1787

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• Birth	15 Feb 1751	Westerly,Kings Co.,Rhode Island
  Gender	Male
  Died	1787	New York City,New York
  Person ID	I37579	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	10 Nov 1999 00:00:00
  Father	Edmund PENDLETON, Jr., c. 23 Nov 1735, Second Church,Stonington,New London,Ct
  Mother	Susannah KING
  Family ID	F15712	Group Sheet

• Notes

  BRIAN PENDLETON AND HIS DESCENDANTS, 1599-1910, Compiled by Everett Hall,page 61. 69. Solomon, b. 15 Feby., 1751; d. in New York City, 1787,unmarried. Solomon Pendleton lived at Derby, Conn., for a short time, ashe sold his land there near the Meeting House Hill to his brother,Daniel, then of Waterbury, on the 12th Dec., 1774 (Derby Land Records, x.55). He removed to Schenectady, NY, shortly afterwards, as upon theoutbreak of the Rebolutionary War he was commissioned, 20th Oct. 1775, as2nd Lieut. of the 2nd Co., 2nd Albany County Regt. Schenectady District(NY Calendar of Hist. Mss.). Prior to this he had been an enlisted man inthe 1st Regt. Albany Co., Militia ("New York in the Revolution") On the7th of Nov., 1775, he was commissioned 2nd Lieut. in the 4th New Yorkregiment, becoming 1st Lieut. in June 1776, and 1st Lieut. of the 7thCo., 5th NY Regt., 21st Nov. 1776 (Ibid). Upon the reorganization of the state soldiery in 1777, Col. Cortlandin a letter to the Commissioner of Arrangement, dated 25th Feby., 1777,recommeded Solomon Pendleton for a commission as follows: "Give me lieveSr to recommend to your Notice Liut Solomon Pendleton who served in Col.Wynkoop's Regt. last year as there is no Vacancy for a first Lieut. in myRegt. he may perhaps be placed in some other." (NY Cal. of Hist. Mss.).He was accordingly commissioned 1st Lieut. of the 7th Col. 5th Battalion,{Regt.} New York Continentals in 1777, ranking as the ninth 1st Lieut. infive regiments raised in New YHork. In 1776 he had ranked as third 1stLieut. in the 4th Regt. (Ibid.) In Oct 1777, the 5th New York was stationed at Fort Montgomery, andwas captured by the British in the disaster that befell the Americanforces there on the sixth of that month. Lieut. Pendleton remained aprisoner of war for over three years, part of which time he spent in theinfamous prisons of New York City. In Vol. 7 of the Penn. Magazine it isstated that Solomon Pendleton was among those on parole at New Utrecht in1778. His name was still borne upon the roster of his regiment in May1779, where it appears marked "Supernumery" ("NY in the Rev.). Lieut.Pendleton was not released from captivity until the 8th of Feby. 1781,when Abraham Skinner, Commissary-General of Prisoners, effected hisexchange (Saffell's "Records of the Revolutionary War." p. 322.). Solomon did not return to the army. Immediately upon his release hewent to Philadelphia, Penn., where, as stated in Westcott's "Names ofPersons who took the oath of allegiance to the state of Penn. between theyears 1777 and 1789," "Solomon Pendleton belonging to the the state ofNew York, with a pass from Justice Van Tassel of Winchester, New Yorkstate," took the oath on the 20th of Feby. 1781. Not long afterwards hewent to Georgia, where, according to his grand-nephew, Edmund Pendleton,of New Haven, Conn., he became a surveyor of Government lands andreceived large grants for his services. At any rate, Solomon becamepossessed of considerable property in Chatham and Effingham Counties,that state, during the next few years. These tracts he bequeathed to hisfriends and brothers at the time of his death in New York City early in1787. His will, dated 23rd Dec. 1786, filed 3rd Feby., 1787, shows thathis parents were still alive and so establishes the identities of theEdmund Pendleton who died in 1765 and the other one who died in 1789. An echo of Solomon Pendleton's war experience is found in the veryfirst bequest in this will, which reads; "And whereas I stand indebted toWillimpee Neepsa young woman in the State of New York for which she hasmy note of hand for forty pounds this currency given about four yearsago, this money I had of her when I was a prisoner on Long Island,wherefore my will is that she be paid sixty pounds sterling (money ofGeorgia) in compensation for her kindness when I was a prisoner and inwant of maney."