Pennsylvania, colonial and federal : a history, 1608-1903 . d300 acres. Turner assigned the entire tract to William Allen,April 5, 1734, and on the 28th and 29th of November, 1737,Allen assigned the same to Peter Grubb, to whom a patent wasissued August 2, 1745. Peter Grubb died intestate about 1754,and his estate descended to his sons Curtis Grubb and PeterGrubb, Curtis receiving two-thirds under the intestate law ofthat day and Peter one-third. Both sons were colonels in theRevolution. On June 28, 1783, Curtis conveyed a one-sixth in-terest to Peter Grubb, Jr., his son. 347 Pennsylvania Colo
Pennsylvania, colonial and federal : a history, 1608-1903 . d300 acres. Turner assigned the entire tract to William Allen,April 5, 1734, and on the 28th and 29th of November, 1737,Allen assigned the same to Peter Grubb, to whom a patent wasissued August 2, 1745. Peter Grubb died intestate about 1754,and his estate descended to his sons Curtis Grubb and PeterGrubb, Curtis receiving two-thirds under the intestate law ofthat day and Peter one-third. Both sons were colonels in theRevolution. On June 28, 1783, Curtis conveyed a one-sixth in-terest to Peter Grubb, Jr., his son. 347 Pennsylvania Colonial and Federal By articles of agreement, dated September 26. 1785. PeterGriibb, Jr., o-i-andson of the first-named Peter Griibb, and son ofCurtis Griil)b. sold to Robert Coleman his share of the Cornwallore hills, Cornwall furnace, and appurtenances, reserving theright for a sufficient (juantity of ore for one furnace, which rightis held and exercised to-day by the proprietors of Robesonia fur-nace, in Berks countv. The deed for the share sold to Robert. Butler From an old print Coleman, signed by Peter Grubb, Jr., and Mary, his wife, isdated May 9, 1786. After that year Robert Coleman, throughsuccessive purchases from the Grubbs, acquired four additionalsixths of the property originally conveyed by the Penns to JosephTurner. At his death in 1825 his estate was devised to his foursons, and subsequently, under various partitions, the interest ofRobert Coleman was vested in his grandsons, Robert and Coleman, and in the heirs of his grandsons, William andRobert W. Coleman, while one-sixth still continued in 1876 asthe property of the descendants of Peter Grubb. Neither theColeman nor the Grubb family limited its operations to the Corn-wall ore banks and mine hills, but each became the owner ofmany other iron properties. 348 Natural Resources During the Revolution Cornwall furnace cast cannon andshot and shells for the Continental army. It was in operationas late as 1882
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