Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894. Excerpt: ... county in 1684. In his boyhood-he was placed in the counting-house of Samuel Carpenter, merchant of Philadelphia, and subsequently, upon undertaking business for himself, was very successful, and became one of the principal merchants of the city. He took an active part in the proceedings of the Society of Friends, and became in time an approved minister. He was sent to the Assembly of Pennsylvania as a delegate from the city in the year 1718, succeeding Richard Hill, who for several years held that position. Pemberton remained in this office but for a single session, and did not again become a member for thirteen years. He was chosen a burgess for the city of Philadelphia, together with Dr. John Kearsley, in 1731, and was returned annually until the session of 1749-50, when his public services closed. He died suddenly on the 19th of January, 1754, in the sixty-ninth year of his age, leaving a widow, Rachel Pemberton, who was an elder in the Society of Friends, and who survived him eleven years. Philadelphia Monthly Meeting said of Israel Pemberton, in a memorial adopted after his death: "He was endowed with a peculiar sweetness of disposition, which rendered his company agreeable and instructive. His benevolence and extensive charities gained the general esteem of his fellow-citizens. He proved himself a faithful elder, manifesting by his meekness and humility that, having submitted himself to the discipline of the cross, he was qualified to counsel others in the way of holiness." Rachel Pemberton was a daughter of Charles Read and a sister to the wife of James Logan. She was born at Burlington in West Jersey in the year 169, and was married to Israel Pemberton about the year 1709, and he "united with her in a pious concern for the prosperity and prevalen...
