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Last name Pemberton
First name James
Display name James Pemberton
Birth date 1723
Death date 1809
Gender m
Affiliations Society of Friends
Bio notes Phila. Quaker merchant. A founder, Pa. Abolition Soc.; member, Pa. Assembly (1756), from which he resigned; exiled to Va. (1777). Son of Israel Pemberton and Rachel Read Pemberton; m. Hannah Lloyd (1751); m. Sarah Smith (1768); m. Phoebe Lewis Morton (aft. 1773)

Mentioned in:

Jacob Lindley's Account, 1793

Joseph Moore's Journal

Letter to Western Indians from the Meeting for Sufferings

Address to the Six Nations

Letter to the Shawanese, Delawares & others from Quakers of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, 1795

Travels in Some Parts of North America, in the Years 1804, 1805, & 1806, by Robert Sutcliff

Life of Thomas Eddy

A series of letters written on a Journey to the Oneida, Onondago, and Cayuga Tribes of the Five Nations, by Joseph Sansom