Rash's Surname Index

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Notes for James PEMBERTON

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JAMES PEMBERTON, after he had received his education, visited Europe in 1748, and spent some time in travel. He became largely interested as a merchant in Philadelphia and engaged in an extensive business, and was influential among the Friends. When military measures were being considered in the Assembly in 1756, he and four others resigned their seats, as this was incompatible with their religious principles. He published in Philadelphia, 1757, a pamphlet defending the course and belief of "the people called Quakers." PEMBERTON was one of the founders of the Pennsylvania Hospital, one of the managers and the secretary of the Board from 1759 to 1772. He was one of those imprisoned in the Freemason's Lodge in Philadelphia and thence exiled to Virginia during the Revolution. His town house was at Second Street and Lodge Alley. He had a country seat called "The Plantations," which was purchased in 1758, formerly belonging to Chief-Justice John Kinsey, the present site of the U. S. Naval Asylum, on the east bank of the Schuylkill. He also inherited "The Evergreens," on the opposite side of the Gray's Ferry Road. He married three times: (2) March 22, 1768, Sarah, daughter of Daniel Smith, of Burlington, N. J., who died Nov. 28, 1770; (3) July 12, 1775, Mrs. Phoebe (Lewis) Morton, widow of Samuel Morton and daughter of Robert and Mary Lewis, born March 11, 1738, died Aug. 22, 1812.

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