THE GRUBB FAMILY OF PENNSYLVANIA AND DELA WA.RE. THE GRUBB FAMILY. (l•'ro11n the Daily Local Xews, Oct. lS93.) 'l'be Grubbs •were q,mong the earliest Eng­ Penn obtained a charter from Charles II for lish sett1ers on the Dela ware .tu ver, their tbe province of Pennsylvania, and on the arnval ante-dating the fouudini; of Penn­ 24th ot A ugus r, 1682, purchased from the sylvania. In this day of swift ocean stearn­ Duke of York the territory now comprising erR and myriads or sailing vessels .. it ts diffi­ tbe State of Delaware. A few days later he cult to realize the obs1ac1es to a succeli-sful sail(:-d for Pennsylvania, and on the 2l:hh of colonization of a wilderness 1nbaoited by October had arrived at Upland, which name savages or an uncongenial race. The Swtdes be cbar ged to Chester,and upon the division bad oeen seated on tbe Delaware s1nce toe of t,he province into three counties he gave year 1688, but the colony dtd not fluurisb and one of tberu tbts name. their occupation exumcted little beyund t1cte Tbe minutes of the Friends' Meeting at water. Tbetse haa for their riv1:tls the Dutch, Burlington, N. J., begin with the date, 15th who finally, in 1665, overthrew the Swedish Lf 5th-month, 1678, but another volume cOD• rule on ther1verandrematned1n possession, lains copies of certificates of membership though without much attempt at coloni­ brought from England of earlier date. Be­ zau .. n, until they iu turn were conquered by t.ween two of these, dated 14th of 1st-month, tne Eng11sh in ltiti4. It was not tbat tnere 1676-7, we find the followtng, but without was much t:Hoodshed on this river, but the date: change ID rulers resulted from more Import­ ••Deare and loving 1friends in the Truth, ant operations elsewhere. The flouristling to a~ many of you as this may concerne, Dutch colony at Ma, battan,now New Yor.R, the~e few lines we wrtt.e t.o you concerning betng taKen by the English, its dependency our dear friend Henry Grubb: as long as he on the south Rtver naturally tell to the remained with us he beb~Vf?d llimself very victorious power. Again, in 1673-74, t.lle orderly & at,w beiu~ single & free from any Dutch obtained a temporary supremacy, contract with any women soe far ai,; we which had little effect on the colonial life know, & witll tbe RememQrance of ou• dear within our borders. Up to this time but few love to him & all friends in the unchaoge Englishmen had sought permanent homes able Truth. John CJark, here, 'lnd these had doubtless been con­ Daniel Ulark, Francis Rundle, nected with the military occupation of the Tristam c. :lark, . .Tames lJoekin2. country and bad fouod wives among the Gabriel Runctle. Wllmot Grubb, bis ~wedes or Dutch. Such was the case with waiter Hawkin, mother, James Sandilands, of Upland, now Chester, Joane <:irubb, who married the dauehter or Jurlan Keen, Antbony Grubb." a ~wede. The commerce of the river was in• The possibtltty that these certificates were significant, RLd vessels seldom arrived, so not recorded for a rew , ears after tneir recep­ that a highway of immigration could tion leaves us In doubt whether Henry scarcely be said to exist. Grubb's should have been dated in 1677. King Charles 11 had granted to his There is even reason to suspect that his ar• brother, James, Duke of York, the territory rival at Burlington was 1,ot until l68i. He now embraced in the States of New Jersey was a witness to the marriage of William and Delaware, and the Duke bad conveyed Clark and Honor Huling, in 1'.-alem, on the the first to Lord Berkeley and Sir George 1st of 11th-month, 1679,and the minuteEi of the Carteret. The Society of Friends hav meeting at Salem show that on the 20th of ing sufferea much persecution in Eng­ 12th-month, 1682, "Henry 6rubb desirea the Jand were looking toward the New meeting to f?:ive him a Certtfficate of what World as an asylum, and in 1673 they knew of his conversation while be John Fenwick:, one of their number, as U-ved with them, and allso of his Clereness trustee for Edward Byllinge, purcba~ed the from any engagement to a11y woman in interest of Lord Berkeley, wbicbby a division these partes; the meeting ordered Thomas agreed upon with Carteret, formed the prov­ woodrofe, Rtcad Robinson, James Nevill ince of West New Jersey. 'l'bere was an un­ and Geo. Haslewood to give him a Certiffi• derstandir.,g by which Fenwick was to have cate and slgne it in the behalfe of ye meet• one-tenth of the province, and in 1675 be led ing." . a col(ll)ny of J;l'rtends who formed a settle­ 'l'bat be desired this certificate was owing ment at Salem. Disputes arose between to the fact that he bad found a woman in Fenwick and .Byllinge, which, by the kind otber parts whom be wtsned to make his Intervention of William Penn, were at wife, and the meeting at Burlington re­ length settled, and Hyllinge conveyed his quired him tu produce evidence of clearness nine-tenths of the province to William from similar engagements. He was married Penn, Gawen Lawrie and Nicholas Lucas 24th of 8d-month, 1683, at Burlington, to for the benetit of his creditors 'l'hese di­ Mary Perkins, daughter of William and vided ·the province into one hundred shares Mary Perktns, passengers on the Kent, 1677, or "proprieties,'' for which they found pur­ her father having died at sea, He is styled chasers among J/riends tn Yorksbire and a sawyer in the record. It may be that their others in London. Certain "Conaitlons and arquaiotance began on the voya,?e to tbis Concesstons" were agreed upon between the country. One Mary Grubb. perhaps a sister trustees and purcbaser~, for the government to Henry, was married on the 8th of 3d­ of the colony, and in lti77 the Rhip Kent ar­ month, lt.185, to Seth Hill, according to the rived with 280 passengers, who formed a public registry of marriages at t:Jurlington. settlement at Burllogton. Other ships ar­ 'l'he children of Henry and Mary Grubb were rived in 1678 and lti79, and the success of the Davta,born 12th-month 4, 1685,died 3d-month colony was assured. Some who tbus came •1th, 16~i; Mary, born 11th-month 6, 1688; as settlers in New Jersey crossed over to Ellzabetb, born 6th-month l2, 1691. the western shore of the Delaware, where The will of B.enry <:,rubb, of the town of courts bad been established among the Burlington, was dated llth of 12th-month Swedes and Dutch, at New Uastle and Up­ (~.,ebruary), 1695 6, a net proven January 24. land, and prominent among these was Rob• 1705 6, in which Is the following item: "l ert Wade, at the latter place. g-ive and beQueath unto my dear mother, About the close of the year 1680 William Willmot Grubb, of the town of Stoak Ohms- 2 THE GRUBB FAlvlILY. land, in the county of Cornwall and King­ What. connection there was between Rich­ dom of England, fl ve pounds. to be paid ard Buffington and John Grubb c~n only he within two years after my decease." Of the conjectured. rhey were llearly of the i,;;ame residue of his estate he gave one-half to bis age and may bave been relattd by marriage. daughters, Mary and Elizatleth, and the In the r<c'cords of the New Cai,;;tle Court, Dec. other to bis wife, whom he appointed execu­ 9 1 b, l680, appears the entry, '·Robert \Vade v. trix. Hit. brother-in-law,ThomasRapter,and Grubb & Boviogtou,"whtch indicates an in­ friend, John Hollingshead, were appointed debtedne~s of some sort on their part to trustees or guardians of bis children, and as Wade. and as the later appears to have be­ witnesse~ tu the will we find lsaac Marriott, come the owner of a large part of the land Emanuel Smith and Peter Fretwell. above mentloned,orior to 1684, the cteot may Turning now to the record of 1:t'riends' Suf­ have been liquidated tn that way. ferings under peri;;ecution ( Bess"' I, 118), we We next fiud. John Grubo, in Brandywine we read that in 1663 "Henry Grubb, of Sto1rn hundred, New Caslle county, where on the Climsland. at the sutt of William Pik.,., 19rh of September, Hi82, a survey of 600 acres prie~t of that parish, was committed to was maae for him in conjuvction with Isaac Tremation Castle, where he continued pris­ ~avoy and Oav1d Heoa,icks. Again t,be oner several years." Perhaps this was the quef.tion arises, wby was he associated with fatherofthe1immtgrant Henry l:Jrubb. The these Hollar1ders'l This land wa8 on the name of Grubb is said to occur very fre• oranches of Naaman's Creek.and no,thward quently on the re.:dster of this parish, being from tbe "King's Road." It is f-Upposed, found ou tl:le first p:.ige thereof. however, tbat John Grubb'H residence was Anotner Henry Grubb died in Phtladel­ close by the river, at what is now Grubb'g phi:.t aouur, the yt-ar 1728, but b1s will gives Landing, aud 80mf' have inferred from the no evidence tbat he had relatives in tbis latter Lame tbar.