Nathaniel Grubb

Nathaniel Grubb was a Willistown mill owner who served ten years in the Pennsylvania Colonial Assembly from 1749 to 1758. A member of the Quaker religious sect, he broke with the Society during the conservative reform movement and sponsored important legislation promoting military preparations for the French and Indian War. His politically incorrect comments about the Scotch Irish are still quoted.

Grubb was born in Brandywine Hundred, Delaware and was the son of John Grubb and his wife Frances. One of Nathaniels brothers was Peter Grubb who founded Cornwall Furnace. By the mid1720s, Nathaniel was a carpenter and a member of the Concord Meeting. His political career started in 1736 when he was appointed Willistowns constable. Five years later, he assisted laying out a road from Chester County to High Street ferry in Philadelphia. In 1742, he became overseer of the poor and supervisor of highways two years later

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