Contents 1. Peter Grubb: Ironmaster? (this chapter tells of Peters start as a stone mason, how he discovered iron ore while searching for stone, and how he later established iron furnaces at Hopewell in Berks county and Cornwall in Lebanon county ). 2-Curttis and Peter Grubb: Ironmasters (this chapter chronicles the work of the two sons after they inherit the business from their father).3- The Patriot Cause (Peter Grubb is elected to the Warwick Committee of Observation and Inspection; Curttis forms a company of associators). 4- The Call to Action (Peter suffers from public criticism; Curttis leads battalion of flying camp). 5- A Qustion of Inheritance (Curttis marries a third wife, pregnant with child, which complicates the expectations of inheritance). 6- Appendix with Grubb family genealogy
