# Israel Pemberton Jr.

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{{Short description|English-American merchant}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name                = Israel Pemberton
| birth_date          = 1715
| death_date          = {{Death year and age|1779|1715}}
| death_place         = [Philadelphia](/source/Philadelphia), [Pennsylvania](/source/Pennsylvania), [United States](/source/United_States)
| office              = Member of the [Pennsylvania General Assembly](/source/Pennsylvania_General_Assembly)
| occupation          = Merchant, politician, abolitionist
}}
'''Israel Pemberton Jr.''' (1715–1779) was an English-American merchant and founding manager of the [Pennsylvania Hospital](/source/Pennsylvania_Hospital).<ref>{{cite web |title=Pemberton, Israel Jr. |url=https://collections.dartmouth.edu/occom/html/ctx/personography/pers0874.ocp.html |website=Dartmouth College |accessdate=14 June 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Continuation of the Account of the Pennsylvania Hospital: from the First of May 1754 to the Fifth of May 1761|url=https://archive.org/details/101279691.nlm.nih.gov/|year=1761|publisher=B. Franklin & D. Hall|location=Philadelphia, PA}}</ref>

==Biography==
A grandson of a [Quaker](/source/Quakers) settler who migrated to the New World with [William Penn](/source/William_Penn) in 1682, Pemberton profited from trade during [King George's War](/source/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](/source/Seven_Years'_War). Notably, he funded Philadelphia's first fire company. In 1750, he was elected to the [Pennsylvania Assembly](/source/Pennsylvania_Assembly).<ref name=":0">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</ref>

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.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Nash |first=Gary B. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vFC0U14jPa0C |title=Forging Freedom: The Formation of Philadelphia's Black Community, 1720-1840 |date=1988 |publisher=[Harvard University Press](/source/Harvard_University_Press) |isbn=978-0-674-30933-3 |pages=43 |language=en}}</ref>

Pemberton was a member of the revived [American Philosophical Society](/source/American_Philosophical_Society), elected in 1768.<ref>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.</ref>

==Death==
Pemberton died in [Philadelphia](/source/Philadelphia) in 1779.

==References==
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==Further reading==
*John W. Jordan (2004). Colonial And Revolutionary Families Of Pennsylvania. Genealogical Publishing Com. pp.&nbsp;288–. {{ISBN|978-0-8063-5239-8}}.
*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.&nbsp;331–. {{ISBN|978-1-317-47441-8}}.
*Thompson Westcott (1877). The Historic Mansions and Buildings of Philadelphia: With Some Notice of Their Owners and Occupants. Porter & Coates. pp.&nbsp;498–.

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Category:Abolitionists from Pennsylvania
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Category:Members of the American Philosophical Society
Category:Members of the Pennsylvania General Assembly
Category:Quakers from Pennsylvania
Category:Merchants from colonial Pennsylvania
Category:18th-century American merchants

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