When Benjamin Vines of Grittenham died in 1763 his son Charles inherited the farm. Probably all the boys had been involved to some extent in the farm operations. Benjamins 1763 will suggests that Edward and William the two youngest boys were involved with the operations of the leases at Hook near Lydiard Tregoze which were left to his widow Elizabeth until she died when they were to be inherited by these two. 
We know nothing of the eldest, John, born 1720, but it is likely he married Margaret Skull in 1746 and perhaps then lived at Tockenham. William1729 married Ruth Norris at Compton Bassett in 1753 and thereafter lived at Dauntsey.

Edward1725 married Ann Henly in 1756, probably from the local Henly family and would almost certainly have lived at the farm. His second son James was born in 1758. 
Edwards brother Charles1722 married Mary Baker of Wootton Bassett in August 1757 and would also have lived at the farm. Their second child Margaret was born in 1759.
James and Margaret must have known each other from early childhood and would have remembered their grandparents Benjamin and Elizabeth after they were grown up.

It appears from the history of Edwards children that they were well educated and most had lived in Reading Berks. The baptism of Sarah in Brinkworth in 1776, indicates that the family as a whole hadn’t moved there before then. Jacob the eldest became a solicitor at Reading, David was married there in 1784 and settled at Groveland Farm Tilehurst near Reading, and Edward1767 also became a solicitor there. It is not clear where Edward1725 and Ann lived. James1758 and Benjamin1769 may have assisted Charles on the farm.

In 1780 James and cousin Margaret married. The first child James was born at Brinkworth 23 Sep 1781. The next four were born at Potterne: Benjamin 16th Nov 1783, David 18th Dec 1785, Jacob 10th Jun 1787, and Ann 5th Apr 1789. It appears that Benjamin1783 must have died, because on 11th Mar 1792 their next child was baptised at Brinkworth as Benjamin. Two more baptisms followed at Brinkworth: Jesse 29th Mar 1795 and Anna Bethia 8th Jul 1798.

The distinctively different name “Bethia” was the forename of  Margaret’s sisters mother-in-law Bethia (Powell) Hughes. Mary and Martha Vines, 2nd and 3rd daughters of Charles1722, married brothers Thomas and John Hughes and lived in the Tytherton/Bremhill area. This probably signifies the esteem in which Bethia Hughes was held.  

In summary James and Margaret Vines lived at Brinkworth after marriage until about 1782, then moved to Potterne until about 1790 or ’91. Their return was probably to the farm at Grittenham where Charles1722 was then almost 70 and the return of James to the farm would have been welcomed to help young  Isaac1774 and Jacob1776. The presence of two Benjamin’s in James family can only be explained by the death of the first, born in 1783, before 1792. The latter then is Benjamin Vines of Bristol, tallow chandler and soap maker.

In 1816 James mother Ann Henly Vines, widow of Edward1725, made her will at Malmsbury. This was witnessed by Susan and Mary Ann Worcester who appear to have been related to the widow of her son Benjamin1769, Elizabeth Worcester. Ann’s will bequeathed 20 pounds a year for life to James, which indicated that he was at that time physically handicapped. There is no hint of the cause or nature of his disability. James and Margarets daughter Ann1789 was remembered in the 1810 will of her 
grandmother Mary, the widow of Charles1722, with a bequest of 20 pounds, possibly as a 21st birthday present. Ann never married and lived at the Moravian Sisters home at Tytherton in the 1840s. 

In the Moravian Church records at Tytherton it is recorded that Margaret Vines, widow, was received into the church on 13th Jun 1819, so James died between April 1816 (Ann’s will) and June 1819, probably in 1818. Margaret probably then lived in her mother’s house at Tytherton with her single sisters.