John Jacob Gum, Jr.

John GUM [Jr.] was a soldier in Capt. John McCoy's Co., Augusta Co., VA Militia, in 1778 during the Revolutionary War

Two books loaned by a native West Virginian that reference John Gum, grandson of Roger, and others who pioneered from Delaware. The books state that a few Dutch were first into Shenandoah Valley but mostly Scotch-Irish and Germans settled there--a handful of English, too. The Gums started purchasing land in Virginia in 1749 but first record of John actually in Virginia was 1766, so this third-generation of Gums planned the move from Delaware to Virginia for several years. John Gum is labeled by the author as one of the original pioneers of the county, which changed names, thus two books.

HISTORY OF PENDLETON COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA, by Oren F. Morton, Baltimore: Regional Publishing Company, 1980 (originally published Franklin, WV, 1910).

HISTORY OF HIGHLAND COUNTY VIRGINIA, by Oren F. Morton, Baltimore: Regional Publishing Company, 1979 (originally published Monterey, VA, 1911)

Two books loaned by a native West Virginian that reference John Gum, grandson of Roger, and others who pioneered from Delaware. The books state that a few Dutch were first into Shenandoah Valley but mostly Scotch-Irish and Germans settled there--a handful of English, too.

The Gums started purchasing land in Virginia in 1749 but first record of John actually in Virginia was 1766, so this third-generation of Gums planned the move from Delaware to Virginia for several years.

John Gum is labeled by the author as one of the original pioneers of the county, which changed names, thus two books:

HISTORY OF PENDLETON COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA, by Oren F. Morton, Baltimore: Regional Publishing Company, 1980 (originally published Franklin, WV, 1910).

HISTORY OF HIGHLAND COUNTY VIRGINIA, by Oren F. Morton, Baltimore: Regional Publishing Company, 1979 (originally published Monterey, VA, 1911)