Israel Pemberton Jr.
Israel Pemberton | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Pennsylvania General Assembly | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1715 |
| Died | 1779 (aged 63–64) |
| Occupation | Merchant, politician, abolitionist |
Israel Pemberton Jr. (1715–1779) was an English-American merchant and founding manager of the Pennsylvania Hospital.[1][2]
Biography
[edit | edit source]A grandson of a Quaker settler who migrated to the New World with William Penn in 1682, Pemberton profited from trade during King George's War. He ultimately was involved with funding Quaker schools and was a prominent proponent of Indian diplomacy, especially during the Seven Years' War. Notably, he funded Philadelphia's first fire company. In 1750, he was elected to the Pennsylvania Assembly.[3]
In the mid-1770s, Pemberton and Thomas Harrison, a Quaker tailor, filed a lawsuit on behalf of Dinah Nevill, a woman of African and Native American descent, who had been brought to Pennsylvania as a slave from Virginia and who sought her and her three children's freedom under a Pennsylvania law prohibiting the enslavement of Indians. Nevill lost the court case, but Harrison stepped in to purchase her and her children and manumit them in 1781.[3][4]
Pemberton was a member of the revived American Philosophical Society, elected in 1768.[5]
Death
[edit | edit source]Pemberton died in Philadelphia in 1779.
References
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- ^ a b Hershey, Larry Brent. Peace through conversation: William Penn, Israel Pemberton and the shaping of Quaker-Indian relations, 1681–1757. The University of Iowa, 2008. David Brion Davis, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution cited in The AntiSlavery Debate, ed. Thomas Bender pg 29
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- ^ Bell, Whitfield J., and Charles Greifenstein, Jr. Patriot-Improvers: Biographical Sketches of Members of the American Philosophical Society. 3 vols. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1997, Ill: 90—95, 153, 361, 369, 374, 471,544, 501.
Further reading
[edit | edit source]- John W. Jordan (2004). Colonial And Revolutionary Families Of Pennsylvania. Genealogical Publishing Com. pp. 288–. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
- Mary Ellen Snodgrass (8 April 2015). Civil Disobedience: An Encyclopedic History of Dissidence in the United States: An Encyclopedic History of Dissidence in the United States. Routledge. pp. 331–. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
- Thompson Westcott (1877). The Historic Mansions and Buildings of Philadelphia: With Some Notice of Their Owners and Occupants. Porter & Coates. pp. 498–.
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