Person:Isaac Gum (2)

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Isaac Gum
d.1830
m. Abt 1743
  1. Patience Gum1745 - Abt 1825
  2. Isaac Gum1750 - 1830
  3. Abraham Gum1754 - Bef 1806
  4. William GumAbt 1758 - 1840
  5. Barbara GumBef 1760 -
  6. Jacob Gum1760 - Bef 1820
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Name Isaac Gum
Gender Male
Birth? 1750 Augusta County, Virginia
Death? 1830

Pg 85 Will Book 4: pg 129-131: Isaac Gum. Sick in body. Wife Jane: 2 horses, mare, 4 cows, 6 sheep, 10 hogs, all of her choice; household and kitchen furniture during her life; also plows, horse gears, farm tools, Negro woman Jude: to wife for lifetime and to be free at her death, she then to live with my daughter Polly Sybert, “and I wish them to use her well.” Son John: Part of the plantation that I live on, with reference to a line marked in presence of Jacob Hevner and Valentine Bird, adjoining Jacob Hevener and my son Bridy Gum, an another line marked in presence of John Bird Jr. Son Isaac Gum: part of plantation adjoining Adam Hull and John Hevner’s new survey (part of my old survey and including 24 acres bought of George Hull). Son Bridy’s heirs: 172 (acres written but deleted), surveyed by John Bird Jr. Son Charles Gum: all the land adjoining and between Bridy Gum, Valentine Bird, the Back mountain, and Jacob Hevener; also $500 to be paid in 2 years, in sale notes or other notes to suit him. Sons John and Isaac: 173 acres in Chesnut Ridge I bought of my son Abraham; they to pay Abraham, Jacob, Charles, Bridy’s heirs, Mary Seybert, and Jane Arbogast $25 each in 5 years. Proceeds of sale of my silver-spotted rifle to be used for schooling of my son John’s son Ryley and my son Isaac’s dau Charlotte. John, Isaac, and Charles to pay unto my son Abraham $100 ea to be paid in 5 years after my death & my son Jacob pay $80 to my son Abraham in 5 years after my death. To my dau Jane all all property I gave her when she left ... my sons John and Isaac keep tract of land that I own on Back Creek containing 100 acres by their paying 150 to the balance if my heirs and if they do not see proper to take it in that way it is my will that the land be sold at public sale ad the money arising from it be equally divided amongst my heirs and as for the balance of my property I want it sold after my death at publick sale and after my debts be paid if there is any balance left I will and bequeath it to my two daughters Polly and Jane and lastly I appoint and ordain that my wife Jane and Adam Gum be executors of this my last will and testament .

Military Record: Served in Capt. Hull's Augusta County Militia, listed in DAR Patriot Index 1966 pub. PVT VA

VA Militia in the Revolutionary War Part II VA Militia Pensioners Pg 147 Section No. 180 Hull, Peter. - Captain, 1779 and as such commanded a troop of cavalry in Yorktown campaign. Pg 148 Muster roll of his company Second Battalion Augusta militia, 1779. Taken from the list written by Lt Seybert, and given in Morton’s History of Highland County (VA). Peter Hull, Captain Nicholas Seybert, First Lt Henry Fisher, Second Lt Jacob Hoover, Ensign Isaac Gum, Private




Isaac Gum was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia

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Early Land Acquisition in Augusta County, VA

Acquisition of Land in Virginia:


  • Page 394.--__ _____, 1773. Same (from John Guin (s/b Gum) and Alise ( )) to Isaac Gum, patent to John, 14th July, 1769, in gap of North Mountain.
  • Page 241 - Isaac Gum, 220 acres, branch of Back Creek above Lewis' land. April 29, 1774. [Abstract of Land Grant Surveys, 1761-1791, Augusta & Rockingham Counties, Virginia, by Peter Cline Kaylor, pg. 85].