Colonial and revolutionary families of Pennsylvania; genealogical and personal memoirs, Vol. I, Part 38

Author: Jordan, John Woolf, 1840-1921, ed; Jordan, Wilfred, b. 1884, ed
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: New York, NY : Lewis Historical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 710

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Charles Jones Wister died July 23, 1865, universally lamented. His first wife, Rebecca Bullock, died September 20, 1812, shortly after the conclusion of a tour through western Pennsylvania, undertaken for her health. On December 4, 1817, he married Sarah, daughter of John and Sarah Whitesides, of Philadelphia, at St. Luke's Church, Germantown. Mrs. Wister survived her husband, and died May 31, 1869, in the seventy-first year of her age.

Issue of Charles Jones and Rebecca (Bulloch ) Wister :-

WILLIAM WYNNE WISTER, b. March 25, 1807, d. Dec. 16, 1808; m. Hanna Lewis Wilson; of whom presently;

Mary Baynton Wister, b. April 8, 1808, d. Nov. 1, 1893; m. Oct. 23, 1839, Dr. W. S. W. Ruschenberger, 69 years a Surgeon in U. S. N .; they had issue :

Kate Ruschenberger, b. Jan. 29, 1841, d. July 15, 1842;

Emily Ruschenberger, b. Sept. 7, 1842, d. Jan. II, 1844;

Fanny Ruschenberger, b. May 27, 1844, d. March 3, 1883;

Charles Wister Ruschenberger, b. Sept. 24, 1847; entered U. S. N. July 23, 1864, resigned July 31, 1895, after thirty years service; m. Dec. 18, 1888, Katharine Wentworth.

Emily Wister, b. Dec. 3, 1809, d. Aug., 1831, unm.

Issue of Charles Jones and Sarah (Whitesides) Wister :-

CASPER, WISTER, M. D., b. Sept. 15, 1818, d. Dec. 21, 1888; m. (first) Lydia H. Simmons; (second) Anna Lea Furness; of whom presently;

Susan Wister, b. Oct. 2, 1819, d. July 23, 1843, unm .;

CHARLES JONES WISTER, b. April 6, 1822; living at "Grumblethorpe," the old family mansion on Main street, Germantown; unm .; author of "Memoir of Charles Jones Wister," and a number of reminiscences of the Wister family and old Germantown;

OWEN JONES WISTER, M. D., b. Oct. 5, 1825; m. Oct. 1, 1859, Sarah Butler; of whom later;

Sarah Elizabeth Wister, b. Nov. 19, 1827, d. Aug. 1, 1859.

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WILLIAM WYNNE WISTER, eldest son of Charles Jones and Rebecca ( Bulloch) Wister, born in Germantown, Philadelphia, March 25, 1807, died there December 16, 1898. He was educated at Germantown Academy, graduating in the class of 1824; was thoroughly proficient in the Greek and Latin languages, and an ardent student of the classics all his life. He also taught himself the German language, in which he attained such fluency, that he was often taken for a native of Ger- many. He was a good botanist and collected a valuable herbarium, to which refer- ence was often sought by his townsmen, when they wished to classify plants and flowers of rare varieties. In disposition he was most retiring, averse to publicity and preferred to devote himself to his books in his well selected library to any other pastime. With unimpaired faculties and a clear intellect he attained the age of ninety years, and was known among his intimates in Germantown, as the "Grand Old Man" of the town. He was vice-president and later president of National Bank of Germantown, from 1862 until his death in 1898.

William Wynne Wistar was married, October 23, 1830, by the Rev. George Scheetz, of Oxford township, Philadelphia, to Hanna Lewis Wilson.

Issue of William Wynne and Hanna Lewis (Wilson) Wister :-

Rachel Wilson Wister, b. Jan. 22, 1835; m. Nov. 12, 1862, William B. Rogers, who d. March 15, 1893; they had issue:

Barton Rogers, b. Dec. 14, 1863, d. Jan. 11, 1867;

Henry D. Rogers, b. Dec. 2, 1865; m. Jan. 26, 1899, Marianna Allen;

Mabel Rogers, b. May 20, 1872; m. April 15, 1896, Edgar W. Baird, an account of whose ancestry is given in these volumes; they had issue :

Edgar W. Baird, Jr., b. April 5, 1897;

Gainer Owen Baird, b. Oct. 27, 1898;

Marian Wister Baird, b. July 1, 1900.

William Wynne Wister, Jr., b. May 11, 1838, d. May 27, 1900, unm .; enlisted in Co. G, Eighth Pa. Volunteers, at outbreak of Civil War; graduated from Univ. of Pa., class of 1875; studied law, and admitted to Phila. Bar, of which he became a prominent and popular member, by reason of exceptional abilities; was a director in a number of Phila.'s financial institutions, etc .;

ALEXANDER WILSON WISTER, b. March 28, 1840; m. Susan A. Wilson ; of whom presently; Hannah Lewis Wister, b. Aug. 12, 1841, unm .;

Mary Wynne Wister, b. Feb. 22, 1847; m. Nov. 4, 1873, Alexander Sydney Logan; issue : Robert Restalrig Logan, b. Dec. 3, 1874; m. June 6, 1898, Sara Wetherill; issue :

Deborah Logan, b. Feb. 16, 1900.

Emily Wynne Wister, b. Jan. 18, 1848, unm.

ALEXANDER WILSON WISTER, second son and third child of William Wynne and Hanna Lewis (Wilson) Wister, born March 28, 1840, enlisted in Company G, Pennsylvania Militia, Capt. Marks Biddle, in Eighth Pennsylvania Militia (Emer- gency) Regiment, in 1862, and saw service in the Antietam campaign. He is a member of Historical Society of Pennsylvania; Society of Colonial Wars; Penn- sylvania Society Sons of the Revolution; The Welcome Society, Philadelphia Club, and Germantown Cricket Club, being one of the fifteen boys who organized the latter club, 1854.

He was married, December 3, 1862, by the Right Rev. William Bacon Stevens, Bishop of Pennsylvania, to Susan A. Wilson.

Issue of Alexander Wilson and Susan A. (Wilson) Wister :-

Lewis Wynne Wister, b. Jan. 21, 1864; graduated at Univ. of Pa., class of 1885; m. Feb. 16, 1887, Elizabeth Wolcott, dau. of T. Charlton and Mary (Jackson) Henry, and had issue :

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Lewis Caspar Wistar, b. Feb. 24, 1888;

Charlton Henry Wister, b. Aug. 23, 1890, d. Jan. 24, 1892.

Alexander Wilson Wister, Jr., b. Aug. 26, 1869; m. Dec. 1, 1906, Emma Huey Moses;

Charles Jones Wister, Jr., b. May 26, 1869; m. June 5, 1894, Elizabeth English Morgan; issue :

Elizabeth English Wister, b. Sept. 15, 1895;

William Wynne Wister, b. Dec. 29, 1900.

James Wilson Wister, M. D., b. May 30, 1874; graduated at Univ. of Pa., class of 1897; now practicing medicine in Phila .; Fellow of Phila. College of Physicians, member Phila. County Medical Society, and Pathological Society of Phila .; m. Jan. 23, 1901, Elizabeth Bayard Dunn, and had issue:

Suzanna Wister, b. July 31, 1906.

CASPAR WISTER, M. D., eldest son of Charles Wister, by the second marriage with Sarah Whitesides, was born September 15, 1818. He was a student at Ger- mantown Academy until his fifteenth year, and was then sent to Dr. Bolmer's French School at West Chester, Pennsylvania. He completed his academic educa- tion at Samuel Gummere's Academy at Burlington, New Jersey, and became a civil engineer. Several years he followed a roving life. Going to Texas, he served with the Texan patriots in their struggle for independence, under Gen. Sam Hous- ton, in the Texas Mounted Rifles, all through the desperate conflict. He later came east and travelled back and forth several years, meeting with many adven- tures and hair-breadth escapes. He finally gave up his wanderings and entered the Medical Department of University of Pennsylvania, received degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1847, and settled down to the practice of his profession in Phila- delphia. He became one of the foremost successful physicians of the city. He was president of Rittenhouse Club, formerly Social Art Club, director of Philadelphia Library Company, president of Board of Inspectors of County Prison, manager of House of Refuge, director of Philadelphia Savings Fund Society, Examining Surgeon of New York Life Insurance Company, member of American Philosophical Society, as well as member of a number of other scientific, philanthropic, social and business societies and associations.

Dr. Wister was struck down at the Pennsylvania Railroad station, 1879, and his skull fractured, but he recovered and resumed his life work, though a large part of the frontal bone had to be removed on the right side of his forehead, so that the pulsations of his brain were plainly visible. Though he lived for nine years after the accident, his death is thought to have been due to the injuries then received. He died December 28, 1888.

A testimonial of him adopted by the government of the Rittenhouse Club says of him: "Open, frank, decided, and truthful, his convictions, from their sincerity, impressed themselves upon every one he met, and, though you might not agree with him, it was impossible not to respect him. With the sternest sense of honor, he had the gentleness of a woman towards those whose weaker nature had been their cause of deviation from the path of rectitude. While he could not under- stand it, he could always pity it. To the young and the old, to the man of business, and to the man of leisure, at the hospital and in the prison, his presence was always welcome as at the play-ground, where he mingled with the most youthful of his friends."

Dr. Wister married (first), July 20, 1846, Lydia H. Simmons, who died in 1848, leaving a daughter, Lily Wister, who married, October 31, 1878, Clifford

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Rossel. Dr. Wister married (second), June 26, 1854, Anna Lea, daughter of Rev. William H. Furness, D. D., who survives and is an eminent translator.

OWEN WISTER, son of Dr. Owen Jones Wister and his wife Sarah Butler, was born in Philadelphia, July 14, 1860. He prepared for college at St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire, and graduated at Harvard University, class of 1882, with degree of A. M., and from Harvard Law School with degree of LL. B., in 1888. He was admitted to Philadelphia Bar in 1889, but soon after devoted his time to literary pursuits, taking up literary work exclusively in 1891. He is author of "The Dragon of Wantley ; His Tail," 1892; "Red Man and White," 1896; "Lin McLean," 1898; "The Jimmy John Boss," 1900; "U. S. Grant, a Biography," 1900; "The Virginian," a novel, for which he is chiefly famous, 1903; "Philoso- phy," 1903; "A Journey in Search of Christmas," 1904. He has also written much prose and some verse for magazines, and was collaborator on Musk-Ox, Bison, Sheep and Goat, for Whitney's American Sportsman's Library, 1904. He resides in Philadelphia.

PEMBERTON FAMILY.

Lower in his Patronymica Brittanica states that the family name of Pemberton is derived from the chapelry of that name in the parish of Wigan, hundred of West Derby, Lancashire, and it is certain that Pembertons are found at a very early period as lords of the manor of Pemberton, in Wigan parish, within a few miles of Aspull. Lower is perhaps not quite accurate; the manor of Pemberton must have existed long before the chapelry became an entity, and the family took their name from their manor, which afterwards gave the name to the chapelry. Of these early Pembertons it will suffice to mention Adam de Pemberton, who was living in the reign of Richard I., and whose son, Alan de Pemberton, 3 John, paid ten marks to have seizin of his lands in Pemberton, and for his relief, etc.

Others of the name at a later date were: Adam de Pemberton ; Henry, son of Lawrence de Pemberton ; Alan, son of Aldich de Pemberton; and another Adam de Pemberton, who was living 24, Edward I. The eldest branch of this line ended in co-heiresses, who acquired the estates, but descendants of younger sons con- tinued in the neighborhood of Wigan.

The first Lancashire Pemberton, known with absolute certainty to have been an ancestor of the Pennsylvania Pembertons, and the first of the line concerning whom we have reliable information, was William Pemberton, born in the town- ship of Aspull, parish of Wigan, county Lancaster, England, circa, 1580. If the register of the parish church of Wigan could be searched and the wills of various Pembertons examined, the pedigree, no doubt, could be carried much farther back than this William Pemberton, with whom we begin the Pennsylvania line, and who was, doubtless, a descendant of those persons of the name who appear early in the history of Lancashire.

Mr. Townsend Ward, on page 141, of ms. "Genealogy of the Lloyd, Pemberton, Hutchinson and Kirkbride Families," says :

"After much research, all the particulars respecting its" (the Pemberton Fam- ily's) "members that could be collected, are comprised in an account of the family in ms. by J. P. P." (James Pemberton Parke). See also "Memoirs of Samuel Fothergill," by George Crosfield, page 160, and "The Friend," vol. xxi., pp. 46, 61, et seq. Lieut. Col. Thomas Allen Glenn, in his printed edition of Mr. Townsend Ward's ms., mentioned above, with additions, says :

"The information here given is from the above sources, and from 'Friends Miscellany,' vol. vii., p. i; 'The Pemberton Family' (of New England), by Walter K. Watkins, Boston, 1892; 'The Pemberton Papers,' in Historical Society of Pennsylvania ; vol. i., the publications of the Haeleian Society, London, and Public Records. It is curious to note that there was at least one other family of Pember- ton in Pennsylvania, whose connection, if any, with the Pembertons under consid- eration does not appear. John Pemberton was born in Glasgow, Scotland, 1717, and his wife in Newton Clanebois, Ireland; they settled at Abington and were Friends. They had issue, several children, who are believed to have left descend- ants."

William Pemberton, named above as first of this branch of the Pemberton fam-

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ily, of whom we have any account, seems to have been a man of considerable estate. By a "lease for three lives" dated May 30, 1625, it appears that a messuage and its "crofts or slosures of land, gardians, pastures, feedings," etc., in Aspull, were let to him by Roger Hindley, of Hindley Hall, during the lives of Ralph, Alice and Margery, his children, and the survivors of them. Two years later, this lease was assigned by William to his son Ralph.

William Pemberton married, December 10, 1602, Ann --- , who died De- cember 23, 1642. He died at Aspull, November 26, 1642. Their children, so far as known, were:

Alice Pemberton, d. at Aspull, Jan. 29, 1675. An Alice Pemberton, and six others, were committed to the House of Correction (at Manchester?), for three months in 1664, for attending Quaker worship (Besse's Suffering, i., p. 315) ;

Margery Pemberton, d. in 1670;

RALPH PEMBERTON, b. June 3, 1611, of whom presently ;

Ellen Pemberton, m. before Dec. 4. 1674, John Allred; she d. in England, Dec. (22?), 1684; they had issue :

Alice Allred ; Phineas Allred; John Allred, m. and had issue; Owen Allred, b. 1674; Theophilus Allred, b. 1686; Solomon Allred, b. 1689, m.

"Nothing further is known of these," says Mr. Parke.

RALPH PEMBERTON, son of William and Ann Pemberton, was born in the town- ship of Aspull, parish of Wigan, county Lancaster, England, January 3, 1611, died in Bucks county, Province of Pennsylvania, "in the American Plantations" July 17, 1687. He was a man of considerable property, and seems to have been well thought of, and trusted in Aspull and its neighborhood. In 1673 he was living at Boulton-le-Moors, generally called Bolton, also in parish of Wigan, and from here he removed in 1676 to Radcliffe Bridge, finally going with his son Phineas and the latter's wife and children to Pennsylvania, in 1682, dying there five years later. He was probably a member of Society of Friends; while living at Bolton, he, in 1673-74, rendered an account of money distributed to the poor (Friends?) of Aspull.

Referring to the "Armorial Devices" of the Pembertons, Mr. Parke gives sev- eral coats of different families, as mentioned in "Burke's General Armory." He also speaks of a seal used by John Pemberton, on a letter dated Woburn, March 16, 1789, viz: Quarterly, first and fourth, Ar. a chevron vert between three buckets sa. Second and third, Ar. three dragons' heads erect, couped. Crest, A dragon's head erect, couped. Motto: Nec temere nec timide.

Glenn, already quoted, says: "An ancient steel seal in the possession of Henry Pemberton, Esq., of Philadelphia, bears the following arms: Argent, a chevron sable (instead of vert), between three water bougets of the second, hooped and handled or. Crest, A dragon's head couped, proper." Glenn mentions a steel seal, but Mr. Pemberton, whom he names, wrote in 1906: "The earliest mention that I have found of their Coat-of-Arms, is on a letter written in 1740, bearing the imprints of seals, some of which (Carnelian and Gold) are in my possession. The Arms are, 'Argent a chevron between three buckets; Sa. hooped, and handled, Or .; Crest, a Dragon's Head, sa. couped and langed.' I enclose my book plate

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thereof ; also an imprint from one of the old seals. In 1864 I met in Quebec the Hon. Henry Pemberton, there residing, and he showed me his Arms, similar to ours, but bearing a motto, which ours never had. In 1864, in the Heralds' Office, London, I saw the Arms of Sir Francis Pemberton, Lord Chief Justice of Eng- land. His father had been a merchant, named Ralph Pemberton, from Lancashire; they told me the Arms had been granted some years before to the said Ralph Pem- berton. They were, first and fourth, Argent; a chevron between three buckets; Sa. couped, and handled, Or. Second and third, three dragon-heads, erect sa, couped and langued, Gu. Crest, a Dragon's Head, as above."

Mr. Pemberton continues: "Notwithstanding the similarity of names, of times, of places, and apparently of social positions, I could never trace any connection. The Pembertons of Boston arrived there in 1638, and appear to be of the same stock, and have the same Arms, except that their Crest is a Boar's head. Some of the works on Heraldry state that the Arms-(buckets, dragons, crest) were granted originally to one of the Pembertons of Pemberton, in the County of Lan- cashire, in the 12th Century, who was then Mayor of London, for his efficiency in saving the town from one of its dangerous fires. The Family is unquestionably a very old one, and the Epitaph on Sir Francis Pemberton's monument states that he was, 'Generoso, Ex Antiqua Pembertonorum Prosopia in Com. Palat Lan- castriae, Oriundo.' The name is derived locally from Anglo-Saxon, and was no doubt originally 'Pen-Berton,'-signifying the Berton, or walled-in-farm-enclosure on the Pen or Hill-top. Euphony and verbal structure has unavoidably changed the N to an M."

Ralph Pemberton married, June 7, 1648, Margaret, daughter of Thomas Sed- don, of Warrington ; she died September 2, 1655. The Seddon family was an old one in Wigan, and in the neighboring parishes of Leigh and Rochdale, and the Seddons of Seddon Hall were noted non-conformists.

Issue of Ralph and Margaret (Seddon) Pemberton:

Phineas Pemberton, b. Jan. 30, 1650; of whom presently;

Joseph Pemberton, b. April 12, 1652, d. Aug. 3, 1655; Probably other children who d. inf.

PHINEAS PEMBERTON, son of Ralph and Margaret (Seddon) Pemberton, was born January 30, 1650, in parish of Wigan, and probably in township of Aspull, Lancashire, England, and died on his plantation, called "Bolton," Bucks county, Province of Pennsylvania, March 1, 1702. In 1665, being aged fifteen years, he went to Manchester to live, and in 1672 to Bolton, and lived there until 1682, when with his wife and three children, and his father, Ralph Pemberton, he embarked for Pennsylvania, in the ship, "Submission," from Liverpool, 7mo. 5, and arrived at Choptank, Maryland, 9mo. 2, 1682, thus making the voyage in fifty-eight days . from port to port.

A more extended account of this voyage appears later. After landing, Phineas Pemberton and his father-in-law, James Harrison, left their families at the house of William Dickinson, at Choptank, and proceeded by land to their original desti- nation, the "ffalls of the Delaware," in Bucks county, Pennsylvania. Penn had arrived in his province October 24, and Pemberton and Harrison had hoped to find him at New Castle, but when they arrived there, Penn had gone to New York. When they arrived at the present site of Philadelphia, they could not pro-

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cure accomodations for their horses, so "spancelled" them and turned them into the woods; the next morning they sought for them in vain, they having wandered so far into the woods that one of them was not found until the following January ; after two days searching the men were obliged to proceed up the river in a boat. An uncle of Pemberton's wife, William Yardley, had arrived a few weeks before, and had taken up land at the Falls, where he commenced to build a house. They stopped at Yardley's and Pemberton concluded to settle in the vicinity. In the spring of 1683, Harrison and Pemberton brought their families and household goods from Maryland to Bucks county, Harrison stopping on the way south at L'pland, now Chester, to attend the first Assembly of the Province of Pennsyl- vania, to which he had been elected. Until Phineas Pemberton could erect a house in Bucks county, he and his family stayed at the house of Lyonel Brittain, who had arrived in Bucks county, 4mo. (June), 1680. On IImo. 17, 1683, Phineas Pemberton purchased a tract of 500 acres on the Delaware, opposite Oreclan's (later Biles') Island, and built a house there. It must have been a satisfaction to him after the storms at sea and wanderings by land to have his family at last under his own roof-tree. This plantation he called "Grove Place." He appears, however, at first to have called it "Sapasse" since letters to him from friends in England in 1684 were addressed "Sapasse, Bucks County." It was part of a tract of over 8000 acres of land, purchased by Penn of an old Indian king and had once been a royalty called "Sepessin." (On Peter Lindstrom's map of 1654, in Sharp and Westcott's "History of Philadelphia" vol. i., p. 75, the name appears as "Sipaessing Land"). The old burying-ground of the Pemberton family, hereafter referred to, was on this tract. Being desirous of erecting a more comfortable home for his family, Phineas Pemberton finished one in 1687. On the lintel of the door was this inscription :

P. 7 D 2 mo. 1687 P. P.

The initials signifying Phineas and Phebe Pemberton. This lintel is now in the possession of Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. This house Pem- berton moved after his second marriage to another tract of land, five miles distant, and more in the interior, It was taken down in 1802 by his grandson, James Pemberton. In 1687 a great deal of sickness prevailed in the Colony, and Phineas Pemberton lost his father, Ralph Pemberton, and his father-in-law, James Harri- son. The father of James also died. Three years later Anne ( Heath) Harrison, widow of James died; and in 1696 Phineas lost his wife, Phebe, who died 8mo. 30, 1696, exactly fourteen years after her arrival in Patuxent river, Maryland.

On his estate opposite Biles' Island, Pemberton laid out a burial-ground, ten rods square; walling in two square rods as a family plot, which is still preserved and is one of the oldest burial lots in existence in Bucks county. Four generations of Harrisons and Pembertons lie therein. The original tombstones, small with only initials on them, having almost entirely disappeared (in 1904 only two could be found, much broken, and only one with initials "Ph. P," very faint), Mr. Henry Pemberton, of Philadelphia, a descendant of Phineas, in 1905 had erected on the lot a large granite slab, with the names engraved on it of all the family known to have been buried there, as follows :

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"Agnes, wife of Immanuel Harrison, Born 1601, died August 6, 1687"

"HER SON-JAMES HARRISON Born 1628 Died Oct. 6, 1687 HIS WIFE ANNE HARRISON Born Feb. 13, 1623-4 Died March 5, 1689-90 THEIR CHILD PHOEBE

WIFE OF PHINEAS PEMBERTON Born Apr. 7, 1660 Died Oct. 30, 1696 RALPH PEMBERTON Born Jan. 3, 1610 Died July 17, 1687 HIS SON PHINEAS PEMBERTON

Born Jan. 30, 1649-50 Died March 1, 1702 FIVE OF HIS CHILDREN May II, 1682-JOSEPH-Nov. 1702 Feb. 3, 1686-SAMUEL-Jan. 23, 1691-2 Feb. 26, 1689-90-PHOEBE-May 30, 1699 July 15, 1694-RALPH-Nov. 18, 1694 April 17, 1686-PHINEAS-JENINGS-1701 HERE ALSO REST THEIR FRIENDS

ROGER LONGWORTH, B. 1631 D. Aug. 7, 1687

LYDIA WHARMSBY, B. 1640 D. Sept. 3, 1696"

Phineas Pemberton, like his father-in-law, Harrison, as well as his own father and other relatives, was a member of the Society of Friends, and was frequently imprisoned and fined for attendance at their worship. The "Annals of the Pem- berton Family," before referred to, says of him: "Phineas Pemberton, as he grew up in the innocent life in those days, was visited with religious impressions, to which, as he rendered obedience, he became confirmed in the principles of an up- right and holy conversation." "The serious impressions on the mind of Phineas Pemberton, inducing him to refuse compliance with the empty forms of the estab- lished church, he became a mark for those in power, and was several times im- prisoned in Chester and Lancaster castles, for his attendance of the religious meet- ings of Friends." "In the IIth month, 1669, Phineas Pemberton and Roger Long- worth with some others, were carried before three justices, for holding a meeting at Nehemiah Pool's house, and on the Ist of 2d month, he was imprisoned ; re- maining nineteen weeks and five days in Lancaster Castle." "But through all these trials and difficulties, by his uprightness and integrity, Phineas became much respected by his friends, and many of his neighbors. He held the office of over- seer of the poor at Bolton, and was for many consecutive years a delegate for Friends to Hardshaw Monthly Meeting." It was from this Hardshaw Monthly Meeting that he took his certificate on going to Pennsylvania.

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Colonial and revolutionary families of Pennsylvania; genealogical and personal memoirs, Vol. I, Part 38

Author: Jordan, John Woolf, 1840-1921, ed; Jordan, Wilfred, b. 1884, ed Publication date: 1911 Publisher: New York, NY : Lewis Historical Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 710

Author: Jordan, John Woolf, 1840-1921, ed; Jordan, Wilfred, b. 1884, ed
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: New York, NY : Lewis Historical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 710