Israel Pemberton

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Other Names: None

Assumed Gender: Male

Birth Date: 1715

Birth Place: Unknown

Death Date: 1779

Death Place: Unknown

Affiliations: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends , Society of Friends

Notes: Wealthy Quaker landowner, reformer; clerk, Phila. Yearly Mtg.; member, Pa. Assembly (1750-51). Imprisoned and exiled to Va. with Henry Drinker and others (1777). Son of Israel Pemberton and Rachel Read Pemberton; m. (1737) Sarah Kirkbride (1714-46); m. (1747) Mary Stanbury Jordan Hill.

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