Rev. Ebenezer Pemberton was pastor of the New Brick Church. He had a
congregation of stanch Whigs; but unluckily, the Tory Governor
Hutchinson also attended his church. Dr. Pemberton was the other
minister of the two who sprung the Governor's hated Thanksgiving
proclamation of 1771 on their parishes a week ahead of time, as told
in Note 3, and the astounded and disgusted New Brick hearers, more
violent than the Old South attendants, walked out of meeting while
it was being read. Dr. Pemberton's troubled and unhappy pastorate
came to an end by the closing of his church in war times in 1775. He
was of the 1721 class of Harvard College. He died September 9, 1777.