Colonel Philip Pendleton (1752 – 1802) was a Virginia lawyer and soldier who fought in the American Revolutionary War, helped found Martinsburg as well as represented Berkeley County several times in the Virginia House of Delegates.

Their firstborn, Philip Clayton Pendleton followed his father's example into the law, politics and military service.

[2] His brothers James and William Henry died without having children, and his youngest brother Edmund Pendleton (1790-1823) had a son Isaac Purnell Pendleton, but only his daughter Serena Catherine (1816-1889) (who married her cousin Adam Stephen Dandridge Jr.) had children.

[3] Berkeley County voters elected this Philip Pendleton as one of their representatives in the Virginia House of Delegates (a part-time position) in 1776 and re-elected him the following year.

[4] He ran as the Federalist nominee for Virginia's 1st congressional district in 1801, losing to John Smith.