Philip Clayton Pendleton (November 24, 1779 – April 3, 1863) was a Virginia attorney, planter, politician and jurist.
[5] Meanwhile, Berkeley County voters elected Pendleton as one of their representatives in the Virginia House of Delegates (a part-time position) in 1805 and re-elected him the following year.
[6] Reportedly, his tenure in the Virginia General Assembly led to Pendleton's later aversion to further political involvement.
[citation needed] Their troop of Berkeley County militia defended Norfolk and Portsmouth Virginia against a British naval and land attack.
[citation needed] Another Berkeley County militia troop would be the first to reach Washington, D.C. after the British burned the new nation's capitol.
Faulkner, Edmund P. Hunter and D.H. Conrad extended hospitality in Martinsburg to members of Baltimore's City Council who traveled to Hancock, Maryland through Harpers Ferry on the newly completed B&O Railroad line.
A "first class" railway station was completed for Martinsburg 1849 and the city became the terminus of a turnpike from Winchester in 1954 and the Cumberland Valley Railroad in 1856.