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Charles married Mary Baker at Wootton Bassett 1757. He took possession of Vines Farm in 1768 after his mother died. He and Mary joined the Moravians in 1769.
Their first 4 children were baptised at Brinkworth and after 1769 baptisms were at Tytherton.
He died 1797 aged 75. Mary lived as a rich widow at East Tytherton in her latter days and died 1810

From Mary's will of 1810 Joseph was mentally handicapped and supported for life by her bequest.

After Charles died and Jacob took over Vines Farm, Mary moved to a family home at East Tytherton where she died 1810.
See her will of 1810. It can be inferred from bequests in her will of 1810 that children Joseph, Sarah and Christiana were handicapped.

A marriage of Margaret has not been found but it seems possible that this is the Margaretwho married James1758 Vines, the son of Edward1725.Mary's will of 1810 leaves 20 pounds to Margarets daughter Ann, who would be her eldest granddaughter.

Mary married Thomas Hughes of Bremhill in 1787.

Martha married John Hughes of East Tytherton in 1789 and was joint executor with Joshua of Mary's will.

Miriam's will of 1828 gives the names of her nieces and nephews. She lived in the family home at East Tytherton.

From Mary's will of 1810, Sarah was supported for life by her bequest, and so inferred to be handicapped but itwas conceded that shemight marry. Possibly physically affected by a childhood illness.

Jacob married Betty Priddy about 1809. The last of their 10 children was born in 1825.
The 1830s were rife with epidemics. Isaac died 1829, aged 18,Henry in 1836 aged 20, Joshua and Elizabeth in 1837, aged 12 and 13, Jacob jnr in 1839 aged 18, Jacob snr died 1842 and Benjamin died in 1844 aged 27.
Mary Ann born in 1812 died 1813 and the eldest Charles died in 1849 aged 40.
Richard, James and their mother (and Charles?) migrated to Ontario, Canada in 1846.

It appears from Grittenham Manorial records that Jacob took a 7 year lease on Vines Farm in 1815, but in 1832 it was leased by John Greenman so the family must have fallen on hard times in the 1820s.

From Mary's will she was mentally handicapped, (possibly Downs Syndrome, last of Mary's family, born when she was into her 40s) and supported for life by her bequest.
She bore an apparently normal illegitimate child, Susannah, supported to age 21 by Mary's bequest.