On Wednesday, 23rd ult. at Hopewell Forge in Lancaster County in the 21st year of her age, Mrs. Mary Shippen Grubb, wife of Peter Grubb died.
Trained up in the paths of virtue, her conduct daily envinced the effects of a good education. She was blessed with a large share of good sense which she improved by the proper attention to good books. The poor have lost in her a sincere and liberal friend. Envy itself could not detect from her character. Her remains were decently interred in the St. James Church Yard at Lancaster by a large concourse of people of all denominations.
Pennsylvania Gazette, March 9, 1774
Wife of Peter Grubb II (1740-1786), son of Peter and Martha (Bates) Grubb. Daughter of James and Sarah (Shippen) Burd. Mary had one son, Henry Bates Grubb, born seventeen days before her death.
Trained up in the paths of virtue, her conduct daily envinced the effects of a good education. She was blessed with a large share of good sense which she improved by the proper attention to good books. The poor have lost in her a sincere and liberal friend. Envy itself could not detect from her character. Her remains were decently interred in the St. James Church Yard at Lancaster by a large concourse of people of all denominations.
Pennsylvania Gazette, March 9, 1774
Wife of Peter Grubb II (1740-1786), son of Peter and Martha (Bates) Grubb. Daughter of James and Sarah (Shippen) Burd. Mary had one son, Henry Bates Grubb, born seventeen days before her death.
On Wednesday, 23rd ult. at Hopewell Forge in Lancaster County in the 21st year of her age, Mrs. Mary Shippen Grubb, wife of Peter Grubb died.
Trained up in the paths of virtue, her conduct daily envinced the effects of a good education. She was blessed with a large share of good sense which she improved by the proper attention to good books. The poor have lost in her a sincere and liberal friend. Envy itself could not detect from her character. Her remains were decently interred in the St. James Church Yard at Lancaster by a large concourse of people of all denominations.
Pennsylvania Gazette, March 9, 1774
Wife of Peter Grubb II (1740-1786), son of Peter and Martha (Bates) Grubb. Daughter of James and Sarah (Shippen) Burd. Mary had one son, Henry Bates Grubb, born seventeen days before her death.
Trained up in the paths of virtue, her conduct daily envinced the effects of a good education. She was blessed with a large share of good sense which she improved by the proper attention to good books. The poor have lost in her a sincere and liberal friend. Envy itself could not detect from her character. Her remains were decently interred in the St. James Church Yard at Lancaster by a large concourse of people of all denominations.
Pennsylvania Gazette, March 9, 1774
Wife of Peter Grubb II (1740-1786), son of Peter and Martha (Bates) Grubb. Daughter of James and Sarah (Shippen) Burd. Mary had one son, Henry Bates Grubb, born seventeen days before her death.
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