Will Papers/Letters for Abraham Lumb
Muskingum Co., OH
1849
p 347

Be it remembered that at the special Session of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the County of Muskingham and State of Ohio, held at the Court House in the town of Zanesville in said County on the seventeenth day of December in the year of our Lord, one thousand and eight hundred and forty nine, present the Honorable Horatio J. Cox, Wilkin Reed and Jacob P. Springer the Associate Judges of said County.

The examination and testimony of William Munch on of the attesting and subscribing witnesse is reduced to writing and filed in Court, and so ordered to be recorded as aforesaid is now here accordingly recorded as follows to wit.

"The State of Ohio, Muskingum County"

At a Court of Common Pleas, he at the Court House in Zanesville within and for the County aforesaid, on the 17th day of December 1849. The last will and testament of Abraham Lumb late of said County deceased, was reduced at the above term and dain in writing and William Munch one of the attesting and subscribing witnesses therefore being duly sworn and examined in open court, declaring that said testator Abraham Lumb, deceased, was at the time of executing and signing said last will and testament of full age, and sound mind and memory and free from any restraint, that he signed the same in the presence of him the said Munch and also in the presence of Jacob J. Anderson the other attesting and subscribing witness and that the said Munch heard the said testator acknowledge said instrument of writing as and for his last will and testament and that they the said Munch and Anderson subscribed their names as witnesses there in the presence of said testator at his request and in the presence of each other.

I certify that the foregoing testimony was taken in open court at the above term and day.
A. Wilkins
clerk