Tax lists 1844, 1849, 1852, 1853, 1856, 1859. Dunmyer, Dunmeyer, Dormayer, of surviying rifles made by Peter and hi son Jonathan were marked Dormayer.
Peter Dormayer was bourn about 1795
Peter Dunmyere or better Dormayer is known from tax rolls, cencus records and surviving rifles he made. He appears in the 1820 census of Conemaugh township, Cambria County as Peter Dunmire, Jr., a young married manufacturer. He appears on the 1834-35 tax roll of Union Township, Bedford County as Peter Donmire. In 1839 he appears as a gunsmith in the tax roll of Somerset Township, Somerset County. In the 1850 census of Somerset Township, he is enumerated as a 55 year-old gunsmith living with his 55-year-old wife Barbara, his 22-year-old gunsmith son Jonathan, and his 18-year-old son David, a laborer.
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