WILLS: Valentine DUMM [DUM], 1836, Susquehanna Township, Cambria County, PA

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Susquehanna Township, Cambria County, PA, Vol. 5, Page 612

Last Will of Voluntine DUM

In the name of God Amen I Voluntine Dum of Susquehanna Township, Cambria County 
and State of Pennsylvania being sick and weak in body but of sound mind memory 
and understanding (praise God for it) And considering the certainty of death and 
the uncertainty of the time thereof and to the end I may be better prepaired to 
leave this world whenever it shall pleas God to call me hence do therefore make 
& declared this my last will and Testament in manner following that is to say I 
give and bequeath to my daughter Sarah Dum one sufficient Bed and bedding and to 
have the choice of the cows, And the rest of my property that is to say my 
moveable property considering of cattle & hogs farming utensils and household 
and kitchen furniture, Grain &c to be appraised and sold at Public Sale and the 
monies thereof to be applied in the following manner as I shall Direct my 
Executors hereinafter my funeral expenses to be paid, and all my just debts and 
I give and bequeath to my son Thomas Dum the sum of fifteen dollars and to my 
son George Dum the sum of fifteen dollars and after all the above expences is 
paid the residue of the monies is to be devided as follows, so my sons Solomon 
Dum, Daniel Dum and Sarah Dum share and share alike (I have no claim to the 
horse as the boys have bought him). I do nominate and appoint for my lawfull 
Executor my son Solomon Dum. 

Witness my hand this fourteenth day of June A.D. one thousand eight hundred and 
thirty six. 

Witness presence
Emericus Bender Voluntine Dum (seal)
George Mayer

Cambria County S.S.

On the fifteenth day of July A.D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty six 
personally came before me David T. Storm Register of the probate of Wills and 
Granting Letters of Administration in and for the County of Cambria aforesaid 
Americus Bender and George Mayer two of the subscribing witnesses to the within 
Instrument of writing and upon their solemn oaths do depose and say that they 
were personally present and saw and heard the within named Voluntine Dum, 
deceased, sign, seal, publish and eclare the within Instrument of writing as for 
his last Will and Testament that at the time of doing thereof he the said 
Voluntime Dum the Testator was of sound and desposing mind & memory to the best 
of deponents knowledge and belief and that they, subscribed their names as 
Witnesses thereto in his presence and in the presence of each other and at his 
request. 

Sworn and subscribed before me the fifteenth day of July A.D. 1836
Emericus Bender
George Mayer
D.T. Storm, Register