Captain Robert Pemberton

First served in the Revolutionary War as 1st Lieutenant in Forman’s Additional Continental Regiment 14 Jun 1777. Regimental Adjutant 10 Oct 1777. Captain in Spencer’s Continental Regiment 1 Jan 1780. Retired 1 Jan 1781. Date and place of birth unknown. Died 1788. Place of death unknown. After the war worked as a clerk for the Federal Government in 1787. Married Anne Cochran on 5 Aug 1784. [Sources: ; ;(66); (98); (C); “Institution of the Society of the Cincinnati … 1783…of the New York State Society”, by John Schuyler, 1886; “New York State Society of the Cincinnati, Biographies of Original members and Other Continental Officers”, by Francis Sypher, Jr., 2004.]