Henry GRUBB Jr.

HENRY GRUBB Jr. signed the Protestation against Popery in 1641 and was listed as a tenant farmer in Stoke Climsland during the 1650 survey. We also know Henry was a butcher. On February 3, 1641 he married Margerett Facie who died less than two years later. (Her estate was filed December 24, 1642.) Henry later remarried to Wilmot (maiden name unknown) who was probably born in the early to mid-1620s. Henry had eight known children, at least seven with Wilmot.

Henry was easily the most interesting character in the Stoke Climsland Grubb clan. In the mid-1650s, he became one of the earliest Quakers in Cornwall and had a tendency to challenge authority, a Cornish trait that his son John demonstrated on numerous occasions in Delaware. Henry had at least three run-ins with the law after the restoration of the Rev. William Pike to the Stoke Climsland parish. On November 11, 1662, he was arrested and imprisoned briefly for non-payment of the tithe. The next year during Lent, one of Henry's sons (probably Peter or Anthony) was arrested in Saltash, just west of Plymouth for selling meat.

In January 1663/4, Henry was arrested again and imprisoned in Trematon Castle for several years for non-payment of the tithe. He probably died within several years of his release. Henry's will has not survived and the date of his death is not recorded but was certainly before 1674. Wilmot remained in Stoke Climsland with her oldest surviving son, Anthony and his family. She was buried "in a field" and her death was entered into the parish register on September 30, 1698.

[Source: "The Grubb Family of Grubb's Landing, Delaware" by David N. Grubb.]

Henry married Helen Vivian WILMOT. (Helen Vivian WILMOT was born in 1630 in Cornwall, England and died on 30 Sep 1698 in Cornwall, England.)