Frances (?)1,2

F, ( - 1719)

Charts Pedigree for Stanley Russell McKinney
Relationship 9th great-grandmother of James Jay McKinney.
Last Edited 2 Feb 2003
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Note* From John Grubb booklet: "In his 1893 work, Gilbert Cope provides no information about John Grubb's wife other than that her name was Frances. In December of that year, Judge Ignatius Grubb wrote that her maiden name was Vane, and that she was the daughter of Sir Henry Vane the Younger (1613 - 1662) . Sir Henry Vane was a Puritan who immigrated to Boston and became the second governor of Massachusetts . After serving his term, he went back to England to participate in the Civil War and became one of the main spokespersons for Cromwell. Sir Henry Vane was executed after the restoration . The story is that Frances Vane was born in
1642, first married Edward Kewkewich of Minhincot, Cornwall and became a Quaker. After Edward's death, she married John Grubb in Cornwall about 1675 and came to America with John. Supposedly, her money enabled John to purchase land upon their arrival . This story is pure nonsense . In fact, the daughter of Sir Henry Vane was buried in Shipborne parish, Kent County, England on June 4, 1683 . Further, if John's wife was the daughter of Sir Henry Vane, she would have had three children after her 50th birthday! Based on her children's birth dates, Frances Grubb was probably born about 1660 . A Frances Vane was born that year in Randolph County, Virginia . Interestingly, a John Vane, also born in Randolph County moved to Ocean Township, New Jersey where he died in 1710 . Also the same year, a Samuel Vane was named in the will of Ann Hartup of New Castle County, Delaware . While none of this evidence is conclusive, it was quite common for Quakers in the older colonies to move to the Delaware Valley after Penn established his colony there ."2 
Married Name Buffington1 
Married Name Grubb1 
Marriage* Cornwall, England, Leornard has a date of Mar 1708 in Marcus Hook, PA as the marriage date , a date coinciding with his will, yet he has all the children born before 1708 as the mother., Principal=John Grubb1 
(Witness) Document© 

Document(s):
, Principal=Charity Grubb, Principal=John Grubb 
Marriage*after March 1708 Friend of John Grubb., Principal=Richard Buffington1 
Death*1719 3 

Family 1

John Grubb
Marriage* Cornwall, England, Leornard has a date of Mar 1708 in Marcus Hook, PA as the marriage date , a date coinciding with his will, yet he has all the children born before 1708 as the mother., Principal=John Grubb1 
Children

Family 2

Richard Buffington
Marriage*after March 1708 Friend of John Grubb., Principal=Richard Buffington1 

Citations

  1. [S1] Louise Horton, Genealogy of the Wheeler - Millikan and Allied Families (n.p.: n.pub., 1970).
  2. [S102] Unknown author, ANCESTORS OF JOHN GRUBB (1652 - 1708) by The Grubb Family Association. Edited by David N. Grubb of Ridgewood, New Jersey. October, 2001. (n.p.: n.pub., unknown publish date).
  3. [S80] Dean Leornard, "Leonard GEDCOM," e-mail message from unknown author e-mail (unknown address) to unknown recipient, April 1999.
  4. [S66] Henry Hart Beeson, A Genealogy of the Beeson - Beason Family. Library of Congress C571.B443 (n.p.: n.pub., 1968).