Emanuel GRUBB

  General Notes:

From Greg Newlin:
Emanuel Grubb was the eldest son of John and Frances (Vane)Grubb. He was born at Grubb's Landing, New Castle County, Delaware on July 19, 1682. This was three months before William Penn landed at Chester on his first visit to his new Province of Pennsylvania. Emanuel died there August 9, 1767. He married in 1708 to Ann Hedge Cock who was born September 27, 1694 and died January 24, 1772. She was a grand daughter of Otto Ernest Koch, or Cock, as spelled by the English. He was the Secretary to the Swedish Governor, John Printz, at Tinicum Island. He was the presiding Justice of the Upland Court in 1680 and a member of the first descendant of Colonel John Fenwick, founder of Fenwick's Colony, Salem County, New Jersey in 1675, by his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Walter Covert.

Emanuel Grubb resided until his death on a portion of Stockdale's Plantation. After Stockdale's was resurveyed in 1735, itwas divided between Emanuel Grubb, his brother, John Grubb and Adam Buckley. Emanuel also purchased other tracts in Brandywine Hundred, New Castle County and in the province of Pennsylvania. He was a man of note and influence in his time and of exemplary character and rare physical vigor. In 1727, he was commissioned one of the Colonial Justices responsible to hold Court of Common Pleas and other courts in New Castle County. He was an active member of the Episcopal Church and from 1725 until his death in 1767 he was a vestryman of St. Martin's Church at Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania. He, his son, Emanuel, and grandson, James Grubb, continuously and successively served as vestry men of that church for an unbroken period of over a century.

An obituary notice, published in the Pennsylvania Gazette, on August 20, 1767, says of Emanuel Grubb: "He died at Brandywine Hundred, on the 10th in stand in his eighty-sixth year, and was interred in the Churchyard at St. Martin's, Lower Chichester (Marcus Hook), Chester County. He was born in a temporary cave dug into the clay bluff on the edge of the Delaware River, during the building of his Father's house and not far from where he always lived and where he died. He was the first child born of English parents in the Province of Pennsylvania." While it has been shown that a few English children were born in the Colony before him, yet it is true that English children the first English child born after the grant of the Province of Pennsylvania to William Penn, March 4, 1681, so far as yet appears.

He left a Will, dated May 5, 1764, and proven August 19, 1767, on which is a wax impression of Emanuel's antique family signet ring. Emanuel devised his property as follows: To Heirs of son, Joseph Grubb, 5 shillings besides what he already has; to son, Thomas Grubb, the same; to heirs of son, Nicholas, 5 shillings; to heirs of son, James, 5 shillings; to son Benjamin, 5 shillings besides what he has had; to heirs of son Peter, 5 shillings; to daughter, Edith Thatcher 2o beside what she has had; to daughter, Ann Black 30 beside what she has had; to son, Emanuel, the residue of the estate, subject to the maintenance of his mother, Ann Grubb, during her life.

"The constitution of Emanuel Grubb was remarkably healthy during his whole life, having never been afflicted with any sickness till a few days before his death. His strength and activity were surprising to a man of his age; he could mount and ride a horse with as much dexterity as a lad of twenty. A few months ago, he rode from his own house to this city (probably Philadelphia) and back again in one day, which is upwards of 40 miles. His memory was equally surprising, and not in the least impaired till his death. He could remember transactions of a late date equally well with those which happened in his younger days. He was exceedingly temperate in his living, seldom making use of Spirituous liquors and his friendly disposition was highly esteemed by all that knew him."

Children born to Emanuel and Ann Hedge Cock Grubb were: John, Edith, Joseph, Thomas, Henry, Frances, Nicholas, James, Emanuel, Peter, Anne and Benjamin.

  Death Notes:

Today Marcus Hook is in Delaware Co., Pennsylvania

Emanuel married Ann Hedge COOK in 1708 in New Castle, Delaware County, Pennsylvania ^33,34.^,35 (Ann Hedge COOK was born on 27 Feb 1693/94 in , New Castle, Delaware, USA ^33,34,35,37 and died on 21 Jan 1772 in Marcus Hook, Chester County, Pennsylvania ^33,34,35,37.)