1813-1816 Patent Index William ALLUM

  General Notes:

Patent Index: From an index of land patents for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania comes this page on which William Allum's name appears near the bottom. The Allum reference is to 252 acres in Richhill Township in Greene County, Pennsylvania, to which William also refers in his will. Upon William's death the land was to be divided between his sons John, 1784-1836, and Charles, 1796-1868. In addition, son John was willed the Allum family Bible that has not been found. Presumably, it would have documented invaluable information about William's birth, perhaps including the location; the name and dates of birth and death of his wife ("Our Ancestor"); and names and dates of birth of their children. Because John did pre-decease his father by about four years, the Bible may have been given to John's younger brother Charles.

William was both the Warrantee and the Patentee for the Greene County land. Approximately 3 years lapsed between his application (March 1, 1813) and the issue of the Patent (January-February, 1816) for acreage named "Moonrough."

This image is available at the Pennsylvania State Archives web site within the category titled "Patent Indexes"



1813 SURVEY - Pennsylvania, Greene County, Richhill Township

On March 1, land called "Moonrough" was surveyed for William Allum in Greene County, "situate on the waters of Wheeling Creek in Richhill township." The book, PENNSYLVANIA ARCHIVES, Volume 26, page 627, documents the survey on that date referring to 270 acres instead of the 252 acres to which William refers in his Will. The survey is in Book C, Volume 2, page 130 at the Land Office in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

"Whereas William Allum of the twp of Richhill in the county of Greene hath applied for two hundred and seventy acres of land, including an improvement adjoining lands of Thomas Strope,* John Heider, John Scott, and Abraham Fisher, situate on the waters of Wheeling Creek on a branch called Taddy's Run in the twp of Richhill in the county of Greene for which he has paid into the office of the State Treasurer, at the rate of fifty shillings per hundred acres. Interest thereon from the 1st of July 1800 to be paid agreeably to the several acts of Assembly in such case made and provided.

"These are therefore to authorise (sic) and require you to survey or cause to be surveyed unto the said William Allum the quantity of acres by him applied for at the place aforesaid if not already surveyed or appropriated and to make return thereof into the Land Office for which this shall be your Warrant.
1 March 1813"

*Later, William Allum's daughter Sarah would marry Thomas Strope and live on Strope's property in Richhill Township in Greene County, PA



Shirley Allum Hudlicky, August 11, 1964 letter to DeeAnna Allum Granston:

"Looking through my notes I see it was 1958 when I last looked at the Pennsylvania Archives. I spent hours copying indexes. I found only one ALLUM spelled as such, and that was William's land survey in 1813 in Greene County."

DeeAnna's Note: More recently it has been learned that William was involved in a transaction with Peter Riley for land named "Surplusage" in Washington County, PA.