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1. HEINRICH1 GRUBB (#158) was born in Switzerland circa 1680. HEINRICH died February 1726 in Frederick Twp, Montgomery Co. Pa., at age 45. His body was interred February 1726 most probably on his farm.
He married CATHERINE ADDIS circa 1708. (CATHERINE ADDIS is #159.) CATHERINE was born 1691. CATHERINE was the daughter of THOMAS ADDIS and CATRIN. She married JACOB FRICK 1 March 1737. CATHERINE died 27 June 1748 in Coventry Twp., Chester Co., Pa., at age 56. Her body was interred after 27 June 1748 in Coventry Twp., Chester Co., Pa..
It is believed HEINRICH GRUBB emigrated to America in 1717 with a group of other Swiss Mennonites. A copy of a letter in my file to Mr. N. B. Grubb 23 April 1912 from Mr. August Grob in Switzerland, states that the most likely area from which they originated would be Toggenberg region (now in St. Gallen Canton). This was where the severest persecution was taking place.
If HEINRICH did not arrive in America until 1717, then 2 of his sons, CONRAD and HENRY, must have been born in Europe and travelled to America with the family. This is born out by the fact that CONRAD and HENRY were Naturalized (received Citizenship) at the Court Session in Philadelphia in 1743. The other children would not have to be Naturalized as they were born in America. Also it would mean that HEINRICH and CATHERINE ADDIS were married in Europe. Catherine’s father THOMAS ADDIS and mother CATRIN travelled with the same group from Switzerland and that may be the reason they all ended up in Frederick Township on adjacent properties.
The Montgomery County Historical Society, in Norristown, has 3 large files separating the 3 branches of "GRUBBS" coming from Switzerland, England and Wales. They also have three manuscript folders showing the genealogy of many interconnected families in Chester and Montgomery Counties. This work was done by George Wanger in the early 1900s. He lived in Pottstown, Montgomery County and he is connected to the Grubb families by marriage. It is excellent work and it finally cleared up mystery and confusion in many of the Grubb family trees. Our ancestor HEINRICH GRUBB arrived in America in 1717 according to most records. He purchased land in 1718 in Frederick Township, Montgomery County.
Another HEINRICH GRUBB purchased land in Vincent Township, Chester County, just across the Schuylkill River. He also came from Switzerland but did not arrive in America until 1743. To make the confusion complete, all his sons are named the same as our Heinrich's sons. Also Vincent Township is beside Coventry Township, Chester County where our Heinrich's sons ended up. So it is easy to see how people get the two men confused. There is a chance this Heinrich Grubb from Switzerland might be a nephew of "our" Heinrich Grubb. His father who has been traced in Switzerland could be a brother of "our" Heinrich and that would explain how they ended up in the same area and named all their sons with the same names. The difference in their ages would fit into this possibility.
There were also a number of Grubb families in the southern end of Chester County at the beginning of the 18th century. These Grubbs came from England and Wales and have no connection to our Swiss Grubbs, at least not in America.
Before we start to investigate the life of Heinrich and his family in Frederick Township, Philadelphia (later Montgomery) County, Pennsylvania, it would be interesting to try and understand what brought them to this wild and undeveloped country in the first place, They had come from Switzerland and were thought to be members of the Mennonite community which was being harassed by the authorities because they were not adherents of the state church.
The Reformation which had swept through Europe had rebelled against the domination and decadence of the Catholic Church of Rome. But in breaking free it aligned itself with the protection of local states and governments to the point of being as intolerant and as abusive of the individual as had been the Roman Church. Inhuman acts were perpetrated on believing Christians by other believing Christians, in the name of defending Christian beliefs under rules
declared by those in governing power.
In Switzerland and Germany, the "separatist" denominations such as Mennonites, could not hold services in public places. They could not bury their dead in the city cemeteries and their children could not enter the trades. This latter restriction fell heavily on the sons in the family who were kept to a life of general labour. The persecution in Switzerland was severe in the 17th century so some of the Mennonites moved to Germany where they were welcomed at first. After the 30 years war, good farmers were needed and so for awhile some of the Mennonites found refuge there. We don't know whether HEINRICH GRUBB, was in Germany before he left for America. The driving force for emigration was to have their religious freedom. For most of these Mennonites and Quakers, religious fath was their primary identification and they just happened to be German or Swiss and quite often had a trade.
In the 1680s William Penn was travelling in Holland and Germany, trying to find settlers for his land in America. What became Pennsylvania was given to him by the King as repayment for a loan thathad been made to his father. He was offering land where people could have religious freedom. A group from Krefeld took up the offer and they arrived in 1683 to form Germantown. We don't know what year HEINRICH GRUBB actually arrived but we do know by 1717 he had purchased land in Frederick Township. It is significant that he paid for the land and it wasn't a free grant. This bears out the fact that many of the Swiss nd German immigrants at this date , were not destitute and could pay for their land. It is too bad we don't have more background history of HEINRICH GRUBB and his wife CATHARINE ADDIS but noone to my knowledge has been able to make a proven connection to his parents in Switzerland.
HEINRICH GRUBB purchased 150 acres from David Powell 27 September.1718 recorded 22 April 1749. Copy of this deed in my files taken from Philadelphia County Deed Book "G" 11 Page 219. This land was located on the north side of Perkiomen Road and east of Highway # 73 (Skippack Pike). Scioto Creek (originally called Society Creek) runs through the property. The deed is made out in the name of HENRY GRUPE. The area was known as Falkner's Swamp. This name is rather misleading as it is not shown on any map including the oldest ones. It is interesting to read a history of the name as shown in a magazine being published in the late 1800s by Henry S. Dotterer. See Source Information for more on this book. I quote from the book as follows.
"At first, of course, there were no names. The wilderness did not need any. With the advent of settlers they became necessary, and there was no delay in coining them. The people did not wait for the surveyor to come with his compass and chain to lay out by arbitrary lines the bounds and metes of sections of land; nor for grave judge to grant humble petitions to have certain divisions legally designated by formal names. On the contrary, names for local use sprang into being spontaneously, and the limits to which they applied were governed by the natural and physical features of the new country. There was a happy simplicity about the nomenclature. Apparently there was no thought given as to what the name should be, only that it convey a distinguishing meaning.
The names so evolved by the common people were not adopted by the civil authorities, nor were the districts covered by them made political divisions. The settlers clung tenaciously to the names and so for three or four generations did their successors. They are still to a great degree current among the descendants of the pioneers.
The valley of west Swamp Creek in this way received the name Falckner's Schwamm in the origianl German language of the settlers. In English this became Falkner's Swamp. This conveyed a double meaning. Falckner, after David Falkner, the land agent of the Frankfort Land Company and Swamp designating meadow or bottom land. The Frankfort Land Company owned upward of twenty two thousand acres of land, extending from the Schuylkill River near present day Pottstown northeastward to the present Pennsburg. Daniel Falkner was a seller of land and all the newcomers became buyers. Falkner was known to everybody in the province, and everyone knew where lay the land he desired to sell. How appropriate and how meaningful was the name Falkner's Swamp.
The first official name given to any portion of the Swamp Creek valley was Hanover Township. Afterwards Frederick Township was set up and later Douglas Township and still later Hanover was cut up into Hanover and Upper Hanover.
The boundaries of Falkner's Swamp may be given in a general way as follows; on the north are the South Mountains, on the south the Stone Hills, on the west the Fox Hills and on the east the ridge rising from the left bank of the Society Run (now Scioto Creek). Swamp
Creek having as its tributaries Society Run, Spack Run, Minister Creek, Schlegel's Run and Gossenhoppen Run, flows in a winding course through the valley."
When Carole (my daughter) and I visited the Heinrich Grubb property in July 1996 and talked to the present owner, it cleared up a mystery about the old location of the Perkiomen Road. It now runs along the southern side of the property and yet I had a copy of an old survey where it shows it running through the centre of the property from east to west. He said the Historical Commission had tried to find the old road by aerial photography and had determined it had run closer to the house and crossed a ford in the creek. This would be the same as the old deed and also would have meant it came out on the Skippack Pike opposite the Fagleysville Road,
He also thought the 150 acres went all the way from the Skippack Pike (The Great Road) to the Little Road on the east. Some old maps show it this way. However my Deedmapper computer print-out, made from the metes and bounds description in the original deed, shows this would not have been possible. So I think the Thomas Addis property was probably beside it and was absorbed by the Grubbs when Thomas died.
WILL of HEINRICH GRUBB
Dated 1 February 1726/7 Proved 6 March 1726/7
Philadelphia Will Book "E" Page 20 Will #22
"I Henry Grubb of the County of Philadelphia and Province of Pennsylvania, I give all my estate real and personal unto Cathrin my dearly beloved wife, make and ordain her my only and sole executor of this my last will and testament by her freely to be possessed and enjoyed by her, her heirs and assignees forever.
I give unto all my children tenn pounds apooce to be roased and paid out of my estate as they coms of adge and farther I do make and ordain George Philip Dodorrer and Johannes Snider to be my executors to take care and use soo my childe that they may not be ronged and to be satisfyed for thyer troble and I do hereby uttorly disallow revoke and disannel all and every other former testament wills lagacies and executors by me in any ways before this time named willed and requested. Ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this first day of February 1726."
Signed Henry X Grub
his mark
Witnesses John Nice
Edward Nicholas
George Shicks
Note: The spelling is the same as in the hand written document in the Will Book. In Pennsylvania at this time it was the custom to have a Court clerk recopy any wills into a ledger. Thus it is not the hand writing or the signature of the person making the will. Whether the spelling is that of the original person, one of the witnesses who wrote the will down, or the Court clerk is impossible to know.
HEINRICH'S inventory as returned by his executors amounted to £230 and 16 shillings. Of this total £150 was for the land. The executors were his neighbours George Philip Dodderer, Johannes Schnider, John Nyse and one other whose name is not legible.
After HEINRICH died his widow CATHERINE ADDIS remarried JACOB FRICK 1 March 1737. They sold the home farm to Catherine's son HENRY for £170. Copy of this deed is in my files taken from Philadelphia Deed Book "G" Volume 11 Page 217. Henry then purchased another 62 1/2 acres beside the original property.
Henry in turn sold half of both properties to his brother CONRAD. This is shown in the deed dated 26 April 1743 Philadelphia Deed Book "G" 4 Page 318. CONRAD GRUBB died in 1798 without children of his own. He willed the farm to his nephew JACOB GRUBB, son of JOHN GRUBB. The house on the property today was built by CONRAD GRUBB in 1754. There is a stone marker high under the peak of the roof which is engraved CONRAD-ANNA 1754. There are photographs taken in 1994 of the house and farm. There is a small log shed behind the barn but the present owner says it is NOT an original Grubb building.
Nobody I have talked to knows where HEINRICH GRUBB is buried. Probably as early as 1726 the most likely place is right on the farm. Another possibility is the very old LEIDICH (LEYDIG) family cemetery. It is very difficult to find. Go west on Neiffer Road from Highway # 73 at Obelisk. Second road on the right heading north will be Keyser Road. Go past the first house on the left. Between that house and an open field a grass track leads up over the hill. At the top of the hill is the cemetery surrounded by a stone wall. However there are no legible stones showing Heinrich Grubb. The other possibility is the cemetery at St.Luke's Lutheran Church but I could not find any stones that old. It is at the corner of Neiffer Road and Highway # 73. The secretary of the church does not think it was in existence in 1726.
In my files are historic and modern maps showing the location of the farm and the cemeteries.
After CATHERINE married Jacob Frick they took 3 of the sons, George , John and Abraham as well as daughter Elizabeth and went to Coventry Township, Chester County just across the Schuylkill River. This was about 15 or 20 miles west of where they had been living in Frederick Township. See the biography of ABRAHAM GRUBB SR. for details on their land acquisition.
I have not found the location of CATHERINE'S burial place. It is probably in East Coventry Township. One record states she was buried in Lawrenceville Cemetery which was the original name for Parkersford. The Baptist Church on Church Road is not nearly that old. It could be at the Oak Grove Cemetery (formerly Union Cemetery) on Old Schuylkill Road where her son Abraham is buried. Or it could be in the Mennonite Cemetery further up the Old Schuylkill Road. This needs more investigation.
SOURCE of INFORMATION
Mr. Edgar B. Grubb, There is a letter in my files with much information. He was very old in 1994 when he wrote me and I understand he has since died..
Dr. Willard Grubb, M.D., 143 West Philadelphia Ave., Boyertown, Pennsylvania, 19512-1429. Letter in my files from him in 1994
PENNSYLVANIA ARCHIVES Third Series Volume 24.This is an index of deeds and shows where son Henry purchased the farm property. There are many books in the Pennsylvania Archives Series. Most Pennsylvania Historic Societies have a set.
A COMPENDIUM of the HISTORY of UPPER FREDERICK TOWNSHIP published by the Bicentennial Committee of Upper Frederick Township in 1975. It gives a great deal of information on the early settlers and their land locations.
LETTER FROM MR. AUGUST GRUB in Switzerland dated 23 April 1912 to MR, N. B. GRUBB in Pennsylvania. Copy is in my file.
PERKIOMEN PAST AND PRESENT by Henry S. Dotterer. 1894. This is a collection of articles from a magazine originally published from 1894 to 1901. It has been reprinted in a single book by Adams Apple Press, E. Bedminster, Pa. in 1994. This book is in my library.
WANGER MANUSCRIPTS. By George F. Wanger and produced in the early 1900s. Held by Montgomery County Historical Society in Norristown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
HEINRICH GRUBB and CATHERINE ADDIS had the following children:
ii. ELIZABETH (#163) was born in Switzerland CA 1713. ELIZABETH died 31 January 1762 at age 48. She married twice. She married an unknown person date unknown. She married MARTIN URNER 05 June 1745 in Hanover Twp., Phil. Co., Pa.. (MARTIN URNER is #1350.) MARTIN was the son of MARTIN URNER (REV.) and CATHARINE REIST.
iii. CONRAD (#164) was born in Switzerland 09 February 1715. CONRAD died 20 March 1798 in Frederick Twp, Montgomery Co. Pa., at age 83. His body was interred after 20 March 1798 in Zeiber-Schwenck Cem. Frederick. He married ANNA HUBNER date unknown. (ANNA HUBNER is #18866.) ANNA was born 29 October 1728. ANNA died 25 September 1800 in Frederick Twp, Montgomery Co. Pa., at age 71. Her body was interred after 25 September 1800 in Leydich Cem., Frederick Twp. Mont. Co..
CONRAD GRUBB was a weaver as well as a farmer. The inventory made by his executors when CONRAD died in 1798 shows a large inventory of linen cloth. We know his wife's name was ANNA and some records state her maiden name was HUBNER. Some records even state that CONRAD was married previosly to ANNA MARIA, maiden name unknown. They claim she died in 1778 and that is when CONRAD married ANNA HUBNER. I believe he only had one wife and that was ANNA. He built his house in 1754 with the peak date stone stating. "CONRAD-ANNA 1754". So she must have been his wife in 1754. Also they had no children as shown in the way his will was made out to a nephew
After HEINRICH died his widow CATHERINE ADDIS remarried JACOB FRICK 1 March 1737. They sold the home farm of 149 acres to Catherine's son HENRY for £170.. Copy of this deed is in my files taken from Philadelphia Deed Book "G" Volume 11 Page 217. Henry then purchased another 62 1/2 acres beside the original property.
Henry in turn sold half of both properties to his brother CONRAD. This is shown in the deed dated 26 April 1743 Philadelphia Deed Book "G" 4 Page 318. CONRAD died childless in 1798 and as you will see in his will below, he left the farm to his nephew JACOB GRUBB, son of JOHN GRUBB.
In 1754 CONRAD GRUBB built a large stone house on this property. The house is still in quite good shape and you can see the date stone high on the wall under the peak that says "CONRAD-ANNA 1754". The house was very large and substantial for that era. It was 3 stories high and all built in stone. I thought it peculiar there was a large door on the second floor but no balcony at the door. I later found out that CONRAD had his large loom on the second floor where he did his weaving. Thus the door could be used for taking large items in and out by using a pulley in the eaves above. This was very typical of merchants in Europe who operated their business from a second or third level.
There are photographs taken in 1994 of the house and farm. There is a small log shed behind the barn but the present owner says it is not an original Grubb building.
CONRAD GRUBB was Township constable as well as a farmer and weaver. The Frederick Township Tax Assessment for 1776 shows that Conrad was taxed for 100 acres, two horses and three cows.
WILL of CONRAD GRUBB Will #2124
Dated 13 February 1786 Proven 29 May 1798
Montgomery County Will Book N 2, Page 59
"In the name of God, Amen, I Conrad Grub of Frederick Township in the County of Montgomery, Weaver, being come to a considerable age I do find myself weak in body, but of perfecct mind and memory, thanks be given unto God, calling unto mind the mortality of my body, and knowing, that it is appointed for all men once to die, do make and ordain this my last will and testament, that is to say, principally, and first of all, I give and renounce my soul into the hand of ALmighty God that gave it and my body I recommend to the earth, to be buried in a decent Christian-like manner, at the discretion of my hereafter named Executors, nothing doubting, but at the General Resurrection, I shall receive the same again, by the mighty power of God, and as touching such worldly estate, wherewith it has pleased God to bless me in this life, I give, demise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form. First it is my will that all my just and lagal debts and funeral charges shall be paid out of my moveable estate.
Item - I give and devise unto my beloved wife, Anna, all the residue of my moveable goods and estate, also all my money, bonds, notes and book debts, which is left after all my just debts are paid, for her own use and disposal forever, and to her heirs and assignees.
Item - I give and devise unto my nephew, Jacob Grub, all my lands and plantation where I now dwell, containing one hundred acres of land, it being the same more or less, together with the house, barn, stables, orchards, gardens, ways, woods, underwoods, waters and water courses, meadows and pasture grounds, with the appurtenances, hereditaments whatsoever to the said messuage and plantation belonging or in anywise appurtaining, to have and to hold the same to him, his heirs and assignees forever, to the boundaries as the same were conveyed to me by deed, only and alone excepted, and what will hereinafter be excepted, for the livelyhood and support of my beloved wife Anna for her dower during her natural life, or so long she remains my widow.
Item - I do value the said plantation as above said to my nephew, Jacob Grub, for the consideration sum of Three Hundred and Fifty Pounds in gold or silver coin lawful money of Pennsylvania or in such money as shall be equal with the same in all payments whereof I have received of my nephew, Jacob Grub, the sum of One Hundred and Fifty Pounds, for which sum he hath given to me Bonds to be paid in seven yearly equal payments, and the remainder Two Hundred Pounds, I dispose of the same after my dedease as hereinafter mentioned.
Item - It is my wish that my said Nephew, Jacob Grub, or his heirs, executors or administrators, shall pay the sum of Twenty Five Pounds of like money aforesaid, on the Twenty Seventh day of November in the year of our Lord, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety Three, to his brother Daniel Grub, or his heirs and assignees, and the sum of Thirty Five Pounds of like money aforesaid on the Twenty Seventh day of November in the year of our Lord, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety Four to his brother, John Grub, or to his heirs and assignees, and the sum of Twenty Five Pounds of like money aforesaid, on the Twenty Seventh day of November, in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety Five, to his brother Henry Grub, or to his heirs and assignees, and the sum of Twenty Five Pounds of like money aforesaid on the Twenty Seventh day of November in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety Six, to his sister Elizabeth, the wife of David Wambold, or to her heirsand assignees, and the sum of Seventy Pounds of like money aforesaid, to my brother Abraham Grub, or to his heirs or assignees, in the form following. Viz - The sum of Twenty Five Pounds on the Twenty Seventh day of November in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety Seven, and the sum of Twenty Five Pounds on the Twenty Seventh day of November, in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety Eight and the sum of Twenty Pounds on the Twenty Seventh day of November in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety Nine, and the sum of Twenty Pounds of like money aforesaid, on the Twenty Seventh day of November in the year of our Lord One Thousand and Eight Hundred, unto the heirs of my brother George Grub's sons children Viz David Grub and Catharine Grub, or to their heirs and assignees, and to be equally divided among them all I dispose as aforesaid, he the said Jacob Grub, my nephew, giving bonds to each of the heirs, for the payment thereof, with sufficient security if required, and security for the support of my wife, Anna, or so long she remains my widow,
Item - I will to my brother Jacob Grub, a bond due me from Michael Hinderheider (?) for the sum of Twenty Five Pounds dated the 25th day of March 1784 and payable the 25th day of March 1786 with lawful interest, and also a note due me from his son Abraham Grub for the sum of Six Pounds dated the 18th day of October 1776 and payable on the 18th day of October next ensuing the date of the note, all which I will unto him, his heirs and assignees forever and no more.
Item - It is further my will, that the possessor of my land and plantation, shall give unto my beloved wife, Anna, after my decease, yearly and every year during her natural life or so long she remains my widow, the two best rooms in the house where we now dwell, at her choice, and liberty in the kitchen, cellar and garret for her own use, and to pass and repass on the premises unmolested, also four bushels of good clean wheat, six bushels of good clean rye, two bushels of Indian corn, two bushels of buck wheat, two bushels of potatoes, two bushels of turnips (if any grow on the place), the third of all the fowls and eggs that are raised on the premises, seventy five weight of good pork, seventy five weight of good beef, and all sorts of fruits, as much as she wants for her own use, also one barrel of cider if there is any made on the place, and firewood sufficient, ready cut for use and brought home to the house, also the two gardens joining the house, and dung to be brought in on the same, as much as need for, also a piece of meadow ground from the upper end of the stable over aginst the lower end of the garden, where the spring house standeth, also to seed for her yearly one quarter of an acre of flax on good ground and tiled, and shall keep one cow in winter fed as his own and in the summer in pasture as his own, for her use and give her a good creature to ride to church or elsewhere, all the before mentioned articles to be kept and performed by the possessor of my land and plantation, yearly and every year during the natural life of my wife, Anna, or so long she remains my widow
Item - It is my will that the said Jacob Grub, my nephew, shall not sell the land and plantation, during the life of my wife, Anna, or so long she remains my widow.
Item - I do make appoint and constitute my said beloved wife, Anna, and my trusty friend and nephew John Grub, to be my sole executors of this my last will and testament and they are to take and receive no pay for their trouble and executorship, out of my estate as I have given and devised already to John Grub, the one executor, ten pounds more than the rest of his brothers and sister, and to my wife, Anna, I have given all my moveable estate as aforesaid, and I give my executors full power, or any one of them, to execute unto my said nephew, Jacob Grub, or to his heirs and assignees, to whom I have given and devised my land and plantation, a good and lawful deed or deeds as good as I myself could do if I were personally present with the exceptions, he paying the quitrents, if any so be, to the chief Lord or Lords of the Fee thereof. and giving security if required as aforesaid hereby revoking all former wills by me made.
In witness whereof I have here unto set my hand and seal this Tenth day of February in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty Six. In case it shall be God's will to let one, the said Conrad Grub live longer than the payments become due which I have willed to my brother's children and brother, my said nephew, Jacob Grub, is to pay no interest but then his first payment four weeks after my decease and then yearly to each their share.
Signed Conrad Grub
(This is an original signature on this document) Signed , Sealed, Published and Declared by the said Conrad Grub as his last will and testament, in the presence of us, who have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses in the presence of the Testator.
Jacob Schnider Michael Grobb
The inventory returned by the executors shows that CONRAD GRUBB was a wealthy man for his time. It is especially unusual in that of the total of £635 7 shillings 9 pence, that £271 7 shillings 8 pence was in CASH in the house. The fact he had been loaning money to others, as shown in the will, means he had spare cash which was very unusual at the time. The detailed inventory also discloses he had a large inventory of linen from his weaving. These inventories are not only extremely interesting but are very revealing as to the status of a person and the type of life they were living and the extent of the furnishing in their homes. The farm property usually went to the eldest son but evidently CONRAD GRUBB and his wife ANNA did not have any children. And it is revealing how detailed the instructions were in the will for the care of the widow (as long as she didn't remarry). In this case ANNA was to receive everything necessary for her support for the rest of her life even to "a good creature for her to ride to church and elsewhere". A copy of the complete inventory is in my files.
Unfortunately ANNA did not have long to benefit from all the care CONRAD took in his will to make sure she was looked after. ANNA GRUBB died on 25 September 1800. She is buried in Leydich's Cemetery The engravings on her tombstone was originally copied by George S. Nyce in the late 1800s while it was still legible which it is not in 1995. The inscriptions are in German, the language of these early settlers. They are reproduced in a book called Perkiomen Past and Present. See sources of information for more details on this book.
As in so many cases of these very early burials, where CONRAD GRUBB is buried is in dispute. It was not recorded in the transcription made by George Nyce but even then many of the stones were illegible and many burials were made without markers. One record states he was buried in the Zeigler-Schwenck family burial plot which is in a field off Colonial Road but no stones there are legible.
SOURCE of INFORMATION
A COMPENDIUM of the HISTORY of UPPER FREDERICK TOWNSHIP published in 1975 by the Bicentennial Committee of Upper Frederick Township.
PERKIOMEN PAST AND PRESENT by Henry S. Dotterer. 1894. This is a collection of articles from a magazine originally published from 1894 to 1901. It has been reprinted in a single book by Adams Apple Press, E. Bedminster, Pa. in 1994. .
WANGER MANUSCRIPTS. By George F. Wanger and produced in the early 1900s. Held by Montgomery County Historical Society in Norristown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
3 iv. HEINRICH was born CA 1716
4 v. JACOB was born 17 October 1718
6 vii. ABRAHAM was born 19 May 1726
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