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Holster pistol owned by Nathaniel Pendleton, made by William Grice and Charles Freeth, Birmingham, England, ca. 1782. Brass, wood and silver. The Society of the Cincinnati, Gift of John F. Joline III, Society of the Cincinnati in the State of Virginia, 1976.
Hamilton's second for the duel was Nathaniel Pendleton, a Virginia-born judge who had served as an aide-de-camp to their mutual friend Nathanael Greene during the Revolutionary War. |