Person:Phineas Pemberton (1)

Will Abstract

No. 69. Phineas Pemberton, of Bristol township, Bucks Co., yeoman.

Names wife Alice; sons Israel and Joseph, and daughters Abigail and Priscilla; mentions father, Ralph Pemberton; brother-in-law Robert Hodson; and John Rowland, Edward Wanton, Samuel Smith, William Biles, Jr., Samuel Beaks and George Biles.

Gives £20 to Friends Meeting

Executor: son Israel, under age, Samuel Carpenter to act for him during his minority.

Dated 26 October 1701; proved 12 March, 1701/02

Witnesses: Richard Hough, Samuel Smith and John Surkett.

[Publications of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, v. 3, pg. 250]

Notes

Phineas Pemberton, who settled at first in Makefield, did not remain there very long, but removed to Falls township, where he spent his useful life of twenty years. He was the son of Ralph Pemberton and Margaret, his wife, daughter of Thomas Seddon, Warrington, England, and were married June 7, 1648. She died September 2, 1655. They had issue Phineas, born January 30, 1650, married first Phebe Harrison, daughter of James Harrison, and by her had issue, Ann, born October 22, 1677, died July 3, 1682; Abigail, born June 14, 1680, married Stephen Jenkins, November 22, 1750; Joseph, born May 11, 1682, died November, 1702; Israel, born February 20, 1684, married Rachel Reed, died January 14, 1754; Samuel, born February 3, 1686, died January 23, 1692; Phebe, born February 26, 1689, died August 30, 1698; Priscilla, born April 23, 1692, married Isaac Waterman; Ralph, born September 20, 1694, died November 18, 1694; Phineas Jennings, born April 17, 1696, died 1701. On the death of Phineas Pemberton's first wife he married Alice Hodgson, Burlington, by whom he had no children. Ralph Pemberton had a second son by his wife Margaret Seddon, Joseph, born April 12, 1652, died August 3, 1655. Phineas Pemberton acted a prominent part in the new colony; he was a member of Assembly from Bucks county for several terms, and chosen speaker, 1698. [Source: History of Bucks County Pennsylvania, by W.W.H. Davis, 1905].

On November 17, 1683, Phineas Pemberton purchased 500 acres on the Delaware River opposite Biles (Oreclan's) Island and built a house there which he called, 'Grove Place.' Being desirous of a more comfortable home for his large household he finished one in 1687, on a part of Pennsbury, Penn's home, some five miles distant and more in the interior, which he called, 'Bolton Farm'. Source: www.geocities.com/capitolhill/lobby/2767/lippcott.html

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 International Genealogical Index. ( The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint, 1999-2008).