Kropf/Krupp/Krupt/Krupp/Cropp/Croop/Grubb Family   
Switzerland/Netherlands/Germany/Colonies

  unknown Cropp/Kropf/Kroph/Krupp/Grubb
b. before 1650
d. probably in Switzerland

m. unknown
b. before 1660 
d. unknown
her father: unknown       mother: unknown
his father: unknown
his mother: unknown
Children
Christian  Kropf/Grubb
 b.  before 1680 Germany or Switzerland d. after Sept. 1729 probably in Pennsylvania or Virginia m. unknown
 Grubb  (probably multiple children)
 b.
d.
m. 
Grubb* b.             
d.             
m.             


As projected in earlier research and a common goal of early immigrants to Pennsylvania, we have discovered a long and dramatic history for the Grubb/Kropf families.  Their history probably has to go back to the beginnings of Protestantism and, in particular, to the roots of the Mennonites who were the first settlers in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania.  The Mennonites were also known as Anabaptists and Dunkers primarily because they didn't believe in baptizing their children until they became of an age to be able to make a rational choice about being baptized.  They were then to be baptized as the apostles with complete immersion or dunking. They also did not believe in pre-destination as did the Calvinists of Switzerland. They also refused to pay taxes, take an oath of allegiance to any ruler or government and were generally opposed to serving in the military.  These were treasonous acts in most countries. We have not been able to ascertain the exact origin of the Kropf/Grubb family.  There is family lore and circumstantial evidence that they may have been originally from Berne, Switzerland.  There are multiple spellings of the Kropf family.  Consistency of spelling doesn't come close to a standard until the colonists adopted the spelling on Grubb. Records in Germany, Switzerland and Holland are mostly in German have been translated a number of times also with differing spelling.  The pronunciation is probably more consistent than the spelling. We do see references in a number of records in Switzerland for the Kropf family in its various spellings.
Grindelwald, Switzerland by Elroy Christenson

The Reformation beginning with Luther's Disputatio pro declaratione virtutis indulgentiarum or "Ninety-five Theses on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences"  on the Wittenberg church 1517 brought cultural changes and religious upheavel that has lasted to the present.  Pope Leo X, through a Dominican priest Johann Tetzel, had been selling indulgences in Germany for past, present and future sins as a way of making money for the church.  Luther saw this as a violation of the intention of confession which caused him to be excommunicated by Pope Leo X, one of the Medici Popes. Although the Catholic church was having great difficulties with Lutherans there were all kinds of other splinter groups. About 1528 the Reformed (Catholic) church under Huldrych Zwingli in Switzerland had instituted many changes but was having a difficult time holding onto their parishioners.  Many were joining the Mennonites or Anabaptists.  "He remonstrated that to them but they did not heed and took such means as they saw fit.  Then the Government came to his aid and compelled the people to follow Zwingli's teaching or suffer a penalty if they joined the Anabaptists."[Eshleman 32]
  Zwingli
There were several objections brought against them in Switzerland including not saying  the "Ave Maria", not paying taxes or tithes, they refused to honor the Virgin Mary, and they wouldn't take absolution from a priest.  The Imperial of Austria issued a decree against the Anabapitsts.  It stated that it was the duty of every citizen to exterminate the Anabaptist movement.  [Eshleman 33] In the later part of 1528 in the northern part of Switzerland known then as Swabia 500 to 1000 horsemen were sent into the countryside "to kill the Taufers like wild beasts and take their property. George Ausbach, who was a friend of the Anabaptists, protected them against this.  Just as hard were the persecutions in Bavaria.  Here Duke William gave the order that all who do not repent must be burned and their limbs be pulled out from the their bodies.  Some were fried to death on hot pillars of stone - some burned at the stake - some hung on trees - some were gagged and taken to the place of death and killed.  But in spite of all this they continued to grow."  [33]

Menno Simon wrote and published one of his most important works, the "Through Answer to the Slanders, Defamation, Backbiting, Unseasoned and Bitter Words of Syles and Lemmekes" concerning the Mennonite doctrine on January 23, 1559.  In this Simon claimed his group was the only true follower of the doctrine on the Bible. The Mennonites take their name from Menno Simon.  Meanwhile in 1565 the Calvinists were also arousing the antagonism against the Catholics in Holland.  Within a three day period 300 Catholic churches were destroyed, graves desecrated and crosses burned. In answer to this abuse the king of Spain established the Inquisition in Holland. Although there had been a large colony in of Mennonites and Calvinists in Wastefield in Holland, it was not without risk. When persecuted in Berne they found refuge in Zolothurn. In 1565 many Mennonites and Anabaptists were also slain in Belgium and parts of Holland.  [Eshleman 61, 65]

Phillip II of Spain, son of Charles V, issues an idict "that forbid all persons to read or discuss the scriptures, especially all doubtful points, except theologians versed in divinity and spritual law.  This was to apply to all those who try to seduce persons away from the holy mother church. Those who do so and teach were to be punished as seditious persons and be executed, viz.: the men with the sword and women to be burned alive and their property to be confiscated. The decree recited that as especially the Anabaptist violated all decrees and moved about secretly, none of the inhabitants of Holland should be allowed into territories of Philip, except bringing a certificate from the priest.  All knowledge of Anabaptists were compelled to disclose them.  The decree forbid the Judges to mitigate the punishment in any particular.  The above is cited from the Great Book of Decrees of Ghent, containing all the decrees of Charles and Philip, collected by William I, Prince of Orange in 1569." Over a six year period the Duke of Alba, under Philip's rule, executed 18,000 Mennonites and Calvinists. [Eshleman 59]

The Calvinists established a theocracy in the Geneva area where they were able to pass laws protecting and promoting their own religious view. The Reformed Swiss Church in 1603, as a reaction to any other religion, prohibited "the bishops of the Mennonites from traveling from one place to another, preaching and baptizing; in 1604 a resolution was passed in like manner that they (these bishops) should be prohibited from educating young preachers; 1605 the Calvinistic predicants handed in a request that the Mennonities be forbidden to build churches.  And thus it went on through the Seventeenth century at 55 Reformed Synods". [Eshleman 72]

1586 - "The great tortures inflicted by Papist upon the Anabaptists of various countries drove many of them into Prussia, in the hope that these Lutheran sections would be more mild than the Catholic ones. This hope was partly inspired by the fact that Prussia boasted of her liberality.  But in this hope the Anabaptists or Mennonites were sadly disappointed. The Government of Prussia, November 12, 1586 issued a decree that they must all leave or be tortured, but not killed.  George Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg issued the chief edict, (Mirror,1006). The next year there was a similar decree against all the Baptists of Koeningsburg (Do., 1007)." [69]

In 1610 Switzerland starts to confiscate the Mennonite property.  "If the Baptists who emigrated (from Switzerland) had previously sold their possessions, then such shall be taken from the purchaser and be confiscated, and the purchaser must look to the seller for his rights." [73]

"The magisterates of the city of Deventer prohibit all citizens and residents of their city; that no Mennonist, et., shall hold any secret or open assembly or meeting where preaching .... marriage, or any other exercise of religion is practice; under whatever pretext the same may be done; on pain that those who shall be found to practice it shall forthwith be banished from the country forever; and every person that shall be found at such a place or in the assembly, shall forfeit the upper garment and twenty-five guilders in money; the second time, the upper garment and fifty guilders; the third time to be punished arbitrarily.  And he that lends his house, for the purpose of holding such gatherings, forfeits a hundred guilders; and the third time he shall be banished forever." [78]

1667- A list by Hans Lotscher is created of the Mennonites who were executed and imprisoned in Berne.  The list was given to Christian Kropf, a cousin, which also implies that they also were from Berne.  Hans Lotscher had been imprisoned for his faith and had some first hand knowledge about these events. This list was printed in Martyr's Mirror printed in 1748.  Hans Lotscher was a prisoner for some time at the Waisenhaur (orphanage) in Bern.  He was then taken away to be put in chains as a galley slave.  
"As it appears in the Martyr's Mirror, English edition, by J. D. Rupp, page 1024; when German edition was nearly finished at Ephrata, in 1748 Christian Kropf  came there with a long list of names of people who had been imprisoned at Berne in Switzerland, which had been copied from the prison records by Hans Loersch, while he was in prison for the testimonny of the word of God, and dated September 26, 1667.  A copy of this list was carefully preserved by Christian Kropf and was then put into the German edition after a note in the extract of the fifth letter from Obersueltzen, dated January 5, 1672, on page 1023 of the English edition. "[Heckler 9-10] (We don't believe that this is our Christian Kropt because he would probably have been too old to emigrate even if this list was printed in 1672. It could be that our family is a relative of this Christian which would make them a target for banishment.  -EC)

1683- While banishment and confiscation of property was going on in Switzerland, the first settlement of Mennonites in America took place with 13 families along the Delaware river approximately where Philadelphia stands today. The early Mennonites were divided between a group of Germans and Swiss.  They had been first of all traders with caves dug into the river bank. Eventually they were bought out to enable them to move further inland.  [122]

1688- William Ritterhuisen was the first Mennonite minister in America.  He established a paper mill at Roxborough, Pennsylvania.  His group was the first known public protest to slavery in a America when they sent their petition to the Quaker quarterly meeting.  In 1712 the Assembly of Pennsylvania passed the Act against slavery. [123]

1691- The Mennonites were declared enemies of the government of Switzerland.  A complaint was made against the Mennonites throughout Switzerland, that they refused to swear an oath of loyalty to the Government and were therefore considered dangerous and are therefore enemies of the state.  The Sheriffs were ordered to drive them out.  On November 17th a mandate was issued that "the fines, the forfeitures and all moneys raised by penalties upon the Mennonites or Anabaptists should b e divided into three parts, viz: one-third to be given to the Government authorities for support of the poor - one-third to the expenses of the special court that was created to take charge of the Mennonite violations of law and one-third to the judges and officers who tried the cases against the Mennonites.  This was a provisioin very well calculated to make the propaganda against the Mennonites effective and the officers zealous and active."[124]

1693 - Mennonites and Anabaptists who went to church on Saturday were compelled to wait until Sunday to return home. From the village of Thun, Switz. was a list of people who excused from the rule.  It included Christian Muller, Hans Kropf, Michael Muller, Abram Stayman, Anton Kropf and Jacob Newshousen. 

In this same year there is a division of the Mennonite congregation in Berne.  The followers of Jacob Ammon became known as the Amish and the other faction were called the Reist were the Emmenthalers out of the Thal or Emmen valleys. The Amish were also known as the "Oberlanders" for living on the Ober or upland area of Switzerland. Amon considered himself the leader of "The Real Christian Order." He said that his followers would not build temples either grand or modest, but would worship God in the old way as did Abraham and the patriarchs and disciples in the homestead.  Although some the Reist came on ships from Holland with the Amish they had serious differences when they settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.   [128] 

1704 - Over past ten years little changed in .  Germans were not allowed to own land in Germany as the English had been able to in England.  [134]

In her article in the "Mennonite Family History" Yvonne Prough provides a number of documents that confirm the families stay or beginnings in the area of Berne, Switzerland. "The first of the Kropft family left Bern in 1671, settling Montbelier, France, in the Alsace and Palatinate."[Prough]

1707, June 29th - The Swiss Mennonites were given until November 20th to leave the country from several Cantons of Switzerland.  Anyone who hired a Mennonite as a servant or leased land to them as a tenant farmer would be fined fifty pounds.  If citizens were discovered that had no certificate of an oath of allegiance they would be subject to have to leave the country or would be deported.  [Eshelmann 136]

1708 - "This year Alexander Mack, of Schwarzennau, in Westphalia, founded the Dunkard denomination. ... About Twenty families of them in 1719 came to Germantown, Skippack, Oley and to the Conestoga (Pennsylvania).  Their leader was Peter Baker.  It would seem from the similarity of their creeds that they were formerly Mennonites." The Dunkers are considered today one of the largest sects of The Brethren, also known as "Schwarzenau Brethren" or Schwarzenau New Baptists".  The Brethren hold that the New Testament is the only creed to follow and are strong supporters of non-resistance or pacifism. They historically partnered with the Quakers and Mennonites in the peace efforts and believe "all war is sin". [137]

1709 - The Berne authorities again attempted to banish the Anabaptists.  They were forced to leave the country of Switzerland and had to pay a fine 500 Thaller (dollars) and American agent, Mr. Ritter, was to receive 101 all fines were to be paid from confiscated property.  Return to the fatherland was prohibited on penalty of death.  Ritter negotiated with the Dutch to get passage to Lancaster, Pennsylvania. [138]
They would probably have been transported in ships similar to the one below and perhaps in similar weather. 
Van Der Velde 
William Van De Velde, the Younger. "Dutch Flag Ship brought to in a fresh Breeze", about 1700
© National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

While all this is going on in Switzerland William Ritterhuisen's group, the Mennonite minister in America,  was the first known public protest to slavery in a America when they sent their petition to the Quaker quarterly meeting. The Quakers had raised some money to help pay passage for some of the Mennonites.  Their appeal stated, "Would any of you like to be treated as you treat negroes to be sold and made a slave for life?  How many when sailing fear to meet a Turkish ship, lest they be captured and made slaves.  But in what does your conduct differ from the Turks?  Nay, it is much more hideous, since you pretend to be Christians! This being so, we protest against the deportation of these people, thus unwillingly stolen and sold."[Wendt 408] The Quakers at this point were unwilling to do much more than ponder this.  Finally in 1712 the Assembly of Pennsylvania passed the Act against slavery. 

In Switzerland, after many months of negotiations, the Bernese Swiss finally agree to a payment to the colonial agent and the government of Holland.  The Amish were willing to board ships to the colonies whereas the Reist, as before, obstainly refused.  Many jumped ship on the way down the Rhine and ended up in Germany.  The Reist group often tried to re-enter Switzerland, which they saw as their true home.

1711- "Christian Kroff with his wife, three sons, ages ten, two and one,  a shoemaker" are forced to leave Switzerland on a ship down the Rhine river to Holland.  [Eshleman 185] 

    Another researcher states, "In 1711, a Christian Gropf was expelled from Switzerland along with a nephew of Hans Lotseher.  They sailed down the Rhine River to Holland.  A Daniel Kropf was martyred in Switzerland due to his Anabaptist beliefs." Note the spelling differences even looking at the same record. [Prough]

1719- Dunkards in Pequea, or Conestoga. (The name Dunkards is not accepted by the Brethren as a proper name for the group.  It could be Taufers, Tunkers, .... )
Kuhn tells us that this year the Dunkards were founded.  Alexander Mack of Schwarzenau in Westfalia, Prussia (Germany now) began the foundation of that faith as early as 1708.  Though they became perfected as an organization about 1719 and on or about the same year twenty of those families came and settled in Germantown - on the Skippach, Montgomery County - at Oley, Berks County and on the Conestoga, Lancaster County.  [212]

1720- The protector of the group was the Count Heinrich von Wittgenstein. 
"The Count's administrator at Schwarzenau could well send in a official report in 1720 to the Imperial Treasurer von Emmerish at Wetzlar and say: 'that for a while pios people have been living here, of whom we never heard anything evil.  They kept themselves ver quiet and retired and no man ever made any complaint of them Lately forty family of them, about 200 persons, have moved out of the country.'" (Brumbaugh  52)

1729, before Sept
We know for certain that Christian Grubb Sr. and his family were members of the Brethren church,  also known as the Anabaptists, Dunkers or German Baptists.  There is a list of converts who joined the German Baptist Brethren in Europe which includes the names of Daniel, Jacob, Andrew, Christian and Christian Cropp Jr.  Meaning, of course, that they joined before 1729 when they came to the colonies on the ship "Allen" that  arrived in the colonies from Rotterdam on September 11, 1729, James Craigie, master. ["Passengers of the Allen" - The Brethren Network]. 

1729- Sept 15 - The "Allen" , Captain James Crigs/Craigie from; Rotterdam by way of Cowes arrived in Philadelphia.  It held 59 families that made up 126 persons (actually list contains 132 by my count).   They sailed on July 7, 1729 Rotterdam a voyage that took 67 days via Cowes, England.
An earlier date for the ship seems to indicate when in was in Cowes, Isle of Wight, GB, 7 July 1728.  
as listed in the record of the "Allen" 15 Sept 1729.
                  Allexander Mack
                  Jo  Janney Mak
                  Velton Mak
                  Allexander Mack der Junge
#34 Christoph Kropf
#35 Rosina Cropp
#36 Andreas Kropf     
#37 Jacob Kropf              "sick"
#38 Christoph Kropf, jun.
second to the last in the list
#130 Daniel Kropf
All the men listed here were also listed as passengers on the "Allen" along with Rosine Kropf, who is listed on some copies of the ship manifest separately.  In the list there were no Kropf/Grubb/Cropp children under the age of 15 with this name.  Along on this same ship with Allexander Mack, Johannes Mack, Velten Mack, and Allexander Mack, Jun.  Reverend Mack was the leader who brought the group to Pennsylvannia. [ship manifest ]

Here is a photo link to the original document with the signatures of the main passengers.  As can be see Rosina is not list on this page as was indicated on the previous list.   There are different lists taken at various times of the voyage which are sometimes in a different order.  This particular list is incomplete but is here to show the method of documentation.  Many names are difficult to read and researchers have combined lists to come up the a more standard spelling and a more inclusive list. 

Allen ship list
 Ship Manifest of "Allen" 1729 -  page 1 of 2 - copy from Brumbugh's history.

(male passengers as listed here,
the X indicated that they
couldn't write their names.
This is the best I could do to
matching them to other lists)


Allexander Mack
Johannes Mack
Allexander Mack, junior
Johann Hendredk Kalckgleser
Jacob Kalckgleser
Andreas Ponni
Johannis Knipper
    ?his
Hisbert Benter
        Mack
Picter Lisle
Hans Gunde
Jacob  Kalackloser
Jacob Wiss
Christian Schneider
Johannes Flickiger
Jacob Snider
Velton Becker
Jacob Lesle
Heinrich Holtzstein
Paul Lipkip
Johannnes Peterkoffer
jr Jacob Crofp
Andreas Crofp






Johannes Slaughter    
 jr. Christian Cropp
Joseph Brunner
Johannes Kipping
Hans George Koch
Jans Jacob Kiebel
Jans
Hans Georg Klauser
Rinehart Hammer
Saml Galler
?Christian Krofp
John Christian Crofb
Johannes Martin Dress
Johannes Jacob Hopback
Johannes Meinterfeer
Christian Kalakglasser
Leonhart Amweg
Heinrich Peter Middledorff
Joseph Brunner
Mattius MVL Ulland
Jerrich Hoffart
Johannes Perger
Johannes Wightman
Philip Fiersler


Ms. Whipple, in her article on the Brethren, indicates that the group of Brethren were led by Alexander Mack, a minister from Surhuisterveen, Holland.  However, Alexander Mack was a Prussian minister, (see 1719) born a few miles from Heidelberg whose group was known as "New Baptists". Apparently Mack went around Germany converted and recruited pilgrims to emigrate.  Listed on the "Allen" was also Allexander Mack, Johannes Mack, Velten Mack, and Allexander Mack, Jun.  The area that they came from is identified as the region of Wittgenstein.  I found the general area and the actual town of Wittgenstein only a few miles west of the town of Laasphe.   This is almost exactly in the middle of a triangle made by the towns of Koln, Kassels and Frankfurt in present day Germany.  This prince of this area of Germany became a protector for desenters of most protestant sect and drew to it by reputation German and Swiss individuals. [Whipple, Judith Cox, "European Origins of the Brethren"]

There has always been a question about how or why Christian came to the colonies.  We feel certain that it was to escape persecution for his religious beliefs.  The Anabaptist, as a group, believed that infant baptism was much too  premature and began urging re-baptism of the populous.  They also believed that swearing an oath of loyalty to anyone but God was wrong.  This was viewed as blasphemy and treasonous and brought down reactions that included psychological and physical abuse including being burned at the stake. 

We know that a Christian Grubb had come from Germany in 1738 on the "Robert and Alice".  He was listed as age 35.  Many have assumed for years that our Christian Grubb came with his family in 1738.  This is not proved with the ships roster.  The complete roster lists him apparently traveling without wife or children but there were others on board that were going to Lancaster, PA as he was. That may be important to the history but their connection to him is unknown at this time.   At age 35 in 1738 would mean he was born in 1703 or 29 years old at entering the colonies in 1729 on the "Allen", since all the children had be at less than 15 years old and he was not listed as a child, and meaning that he could not be the father of the children of the earlier list.   He needs to be the apparently youngest son of Christian Sr.  according to the order of the list.  Subsequent records from the Peaked Mountain Church indicate that Rosine, although listed as the wife of the Christian Sr., seems to be the wife of Christian Jr. She has to have been married to Christian Jr. in Germany and had no children until in the colonies. 

1730 "... the sheriffs of Pennsylvania were ordered this year, by Gov. Gordon, not to summon any of the Mennonist people nor the other non-resistant sect as jurors. This, he says, was done because they held God only could punish man and that the Courts had no right to deprive any one of liberty or life at all.  Besides this, an oath was required of a juror and these people would not so qualify.  ... " [235]

Travel in 1738 from Germany was considered to be "The Year of the Destroying Angels" for the number of people who died.  The German serfs had undergone many challenges with swinging allegiances of the local rulers toward various religions. Lutherans and Catholics seemed be able to allow some freedom to worship but when Calvinism became official religion of the Elector many Protestants wanted to leave the area of German Palatine. The desperation of the serf locked farmers forced them to clog the border areas of Holland on their way to the ports of Rotterdam looking for passage to the Colonies.  The Dutch authorities were worried that holding them for a long time at the border would create a situation of potential outbreaks of epidemic.  The Dutch commandeered ships from England and their own fleets to alleviate the pressure.   One record citing the Wurts records says that of the over 6,500 people who boarded ships some 24 ships in this year 2,260 people died on the voyage. 

1738, Sept. 11 - Christian Grub[sic] arrived at Philadelphia, PA from Rotterdam on board the "Robert and Alice."
All male passengers signed into the ship's log. Christian signed in German as Christian Krupf. His age is listed as 35 and seems to be traveling without wife or children.   All passengers were required to take an Oath of Allegiance to the King of England. Christian signed in his native language of German.  Because of the earlier record of Christian and family entering in 1729 on the "Allen" original theories of the family have had to be revised.  The Christian Grub entering on the "Robert and Alice" must be Christian JR.  [roster of the "Robert and Alice", Progenealogist 1/20/07]

[List of immigrants taking "oath" Sept.11, 1738 Philadelphia] Christian Grub was on the list of immigrants taking the "oath in 1738.

1761- Christian Grubb first known land purchase in Frederick Co., VA. Purchase was made 24 JUN 1761...from Burr Harrison and wife, Mary Anne to Christian Grub, 400 acres in Frederick Co. on Stoney Creek. [Deed Book 12, page 566, recorded 1768]
We, however, don't know which Christian this refers to. We feel this had to be Christian Jr. since Christian Sr. would have been 101 years old by this date. Christian Jr. would still be 59 years old by this date if my calculations are correct. 

1762, SEPT 25 - Jacob Grubb purchases, 250a. "On the waters of Smiths Creek near the foot of the Peeked Mountains." [Patents No. 35, 1762-64, p.13, Augusta County, VA] Baptismal records of the church in 1762 state that Jacob was 26 years old., Daniel was 24 and Margaret was 18. A (AD)  This then must be a grandchild of Christian Sr. 

1762. At the "Pinquit" (Peaked) Mountain and the South "Chanithor" (Shenandoah), in Virginia, the following children were baptized on Saturday, February 27th [note 2]:
parents children sponsor
Christian Kroph
and wife 		(35)Jacob , aged 26,years John Jacob Nicolaus and wife Anna Barbara Rosina, nee Kipp
(ditto) (36) Daniel, age 24 Jacob Arkebrech (Argenbright) and wife Susanna
(ditto) (37) Margaret, age 18 years I.C. Van Gemuenden,the Reformed minister wife, M.A. Van Germuenden, also Jacob Perschinger, Reformed elder, and wife Maria Catharine
Peter Mueller (Miller) and wife Margaret
 (51) Jacob, born April 17, 1785; bapt. June 18
Jacob Croop and wife Barbara

Peter Mueller and Margaret is actually the Margaret, daughter of Christian Kroph, Jr..  Her brother is the sponsor of the baptism
Jacob Croop and wife Anna Barbara
 (63) John, born March 9, 1765; bapt. June 18
 John Argebrecht and Catharine Vogt
Daniel Grub and Elizabeth
 (88) Mary Catharine, born December 15, 1775
 Peter Miller and wife Anna Maria
Martin Finder and Barbara
 (91) Barbara, born Feb. 24, 1776
 Jacob Grub and Barbara

Marriages in 1762:

On March 2.  Jacob Kropp (Cropp), son of Christian Kropp and Anna Barbara Metzger, daughter of Eroge Valentine Metzger

On March 2.  Peter Mueller, son of Henry Mueller, and Margaret Kropp, daughter of Christian Kropp.

On Saturday, Feb. 27, 1762 was received as a member of the congregation, upon confession of her faith, Margaret Kropp (Cropp)

                  [Peaked Mountain Church Record, edited by Prof. Wm. J. Hinke and Charles Kemper]

The Peaked Mountain Church was an early German Lutheran church and holds some of the earliest records of colonist of German descent. In various records of the Peaked Mountain Church, their last name is spelled at least three different ways. Early records spell the name as Krupt, later changed to Kruph, translated as Croop, late listings as Grub or Grubb.  This has be Christian Jr. for the same reasons of age and the children would have to be his adult children. 

According to the records of Peaked Mountain Church, Rockingham Co., VA all of the eight children of Christian Grub did not come over on the "Robert and Alice". Records of the church refer to his "5 sons and 3 dau." Ernest Grubb writes:
source:

Franklin State / Sullivan Co., Tenn  | Ancestoral Chart #2

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