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SUMMERS
FAMILY
SUMMERS
FAMILY
SUMMERS
FAMILY. Hance George Summers
(Sommer in German), the ancestor of the Summers
family, and great-great-grandfather of William Summers,
of Conshohocken, with his wife Elizabeth and children Johannes, Hans
Martin, George, Peter and Margaretha Elizabeth, arrived in Philadelphia
from Germany on September 22, 1752, in the ship “Brothers,” Captain
William Muir.
Philip and Henry, also sons, arrived
September
22, 1754
, in the ship “
Edinburg
,”
James Russel, master.
Hance George Summers resided in
Lower
Dublin
township in 1769.
Johannes, born 1737, married
January 24, 1764
, Elizabeth Reidannauer; at the date of his marriage his residence was near New
Hanover. (There was a John in
Moreland in 1774.) Children:
John, born
February
24, 1765
.
Martin died in March, 1804; married
July 6, 1769
, Anna Barbara Geiss;
children: Philip; Henry; and
Elizabeth, married Loedwyk Sharp.
Martin lived in Lower Dublin in 1769; he was an employe in the
United States mint from its organization to 1804, as were also some of his
descendants down to 1899; he was a private in Captain Ezekial Lett’s
company in the war of the Revolution; muster roll, August 25, 1779.
Peter died
November
24, 1783
; married
August
3, 1769
, Catharine Maenchen.
Children: Ernest,
Margaret and Catharine. He
lived in North Ward, Philadelphia, in 1774; he served in the war of the
Revolution, filling the following positions in the Fourth Pennsylvania
Regiment; ensign, second lieutenant, first lieutenant and quartermaster.
George, born,
April
5, 1745
; died
October
14, 1825
; married Ann ____, born 1752, died
March 16, 1829
.
Children: John, died
1781; Eli; David and Martin. George
was a drummer in the Sixth Pennsylvania Regiment in the war of the
Revolution. He resided at the
time of his death in
Warrington
township, Bucks county. He and
his wife and son John are interred in the churchyard of Upper Dublin
Evangelical Lutheran church,
Montgomery
county,
Pennsylvania
.
Henry died October, 1798; married,
May 6, 1766
, Catharine Dessinger. Children:
Mary, married Daniel Linker; Henry Summers Linker,
(sic) and Elizabeth, who married ‘Squire Clevenger.
Henry was enrolled as a private in Captain Isaac
cooper’s company, muster roll dated
November 2, 1778
,
war of the Revolution. He
resided in the city of
Philadelphia
.
Philip Summers,
great-grandfather of William Summers,
was born October 2, 1728; died May 2, 1814; married February 24, 1764, by
the Rev. Henry Melchoir Muhlenberg,
pastor of St. Michael’s and Zion’s Lutheran church, Philadelphia, to
Salome Reibel, daughter of
Nicholas and Susannah. Salome,
born 1739, died
May 20, 1817
.
Philip and his wife are interred in the churchyard of
St.
John’s
Lutheran church,
Race street
,
Philadelphia
.
Philip purchased
November
24, 1774
, a farm of 165 acres in Horsham township,
Philadelphia
(now
Montgomery
)
county, of Charles Steadman,
and here resided until
March 29, 1796
,
when he sold his homestead to Job Spencer and removed to
Philadelphia
.
Previous to purchasing his farm he resided in the following places:
Douglass,
Cheltenham
,
and Manor of Moreland in 1769. Philip
was enrolled as a private in Captain David Marpole’s
company, 1777-1780. His name
is in the depreciation pay roll, Pennsylvania Archives, vol. 13, p. 721.
Children:
1.
Martin
Summers, grandfather, born
December 5, 1764
, died
July 27, 1845
.
(See forward.)
2.
Nicholas
Summers, born
September 10, 1767
, died
March 24, 1854
; married Ann Hoover,
born
November 8, 1776
, died
August 8, 1827
.
Children: John, Sarah,
Isaac and Enos.
3.
Philip
Summers, born 1770, died
July 3, 1834
; married Catharine Hurst,
born
December
18, 1772
, died
June
18, 1827
.
Children: Henry, John,
Philip, William, Anna, Mary, Jesse and Charles.
4.
John
Summers, born 1770, died
April 10, 1846
; married Catharine Kneedler,
born 1777, died
February 12, 1835
.
Children: Jacob, John
and Elizabeth.
5.
Anthony,
born 1773, died
August
22, 1816
, single. He
enlisted
May 4, 1812
,
for five years in the Fourth Regiment United States army, and died at
Creek Agency.
6.
George
Summers, born 1775; married
Elizabeth Dotts.
Children: John, George,
Jacob, Henry, Samuel, Mary and Elizabeth.
7.
Henry
Summers, born 1775; married
Maria Magdalena Shearer, died
May 24, 1802
.
Children: Henry and
Samuel. Married (second)
Susannah Johnson.
Children: Elizabeth and
Elijah.
8.
Peter
Summers, born 1778, died
March 12, 1865
; married Susanna Schwenk,
born
Jul 24, 1770
, died
March 10, 1865
.
Children: Eva Maria,
Sarah and Noah.
9.
Elizabeth
Summers, born
September 1, 1781
, died
October 12, 1803
.
Martin Summers
(grandfather,) named above, born
December
5, 1764
, died
Jul
27, 1845
;
married Elizabeth Houpt, born
August 4, 1766
, died
November 4, 1822
.
Issue: Sarah, married
George Bossert; George, married
Sarah Hilkerd; Martin, married
Elizabeth Freed; Anna Margaret,
married Nicholas Gouldy;
Philip, married Ann Shutt;
Elizabeth, married Andrew Keel;
Samuel, married Eliza Whitby;
Hannah, married Philip Shambough.
Martin married (second)
December 11, 1823
, Mrs. Anna Elizabeth Sterigere,
born
January 1, 1770
; died
June
21, 1853
. She
was the widow of Peter Sterigere,
sister to his first wife. He
and first wife are interred in the churchyard of
St.
John’s
Episcopal church,
Norristown
,
Pennsylvania
.
His first place of residence was in Horsham township, second
Gwynedd township, third
Providence
township, 1803; fourth Norriton township, where he purchased,
April
5, 1810
, a farm of 104 acres of John Brown.
He was a member of St. Peter’s Lutheran church,
North Wales
(known as “the yellow
church”). He was elected a
deacon of this church
November
16, 1796
. His
residence at that time was Gwynedd township.
Samuel Summers (father),
son of Martin and Elizabeth (Houpt)
summers, was born in Providence (now Upper Providence) township
September 27, 1804; died July 18, 1881; married March 22, 1832, by Rev.
George Wack, to Eliza Whitby, born March 22, 1899, died November 16, 1898.
She was the daughter of Anthony and Mary (Berkheimer)
Whitby
.
He resided in the borough of
Norristown
,
and for several years was employed by the borough; in later years he
bought and sold country produce. He
and his wife are interred in
Montgomery
cemetery,
Norristown
,
Pennsylvania
.
Children:
William (subject), born
May 30, 1833
.
Martin, born November 2. 1836; died
May
12, 1872
; was a soldier in the Civil war, Company G, One
Hundred and Fourteenth Pennsylvania Regiment.
Charles, born
December
2, 1839
; died
January
14, 1874
; employed as a clerk with his brother William, at
Conshohocken
,
Pennsylvania
.
Anna Elizabeth, born
January 7, 1843
; resides at
Norristown
,
Pennsylvania
.
George M., born July 19, 1845; died November 12, 1872; was a
soldier in the Civil war, Company D, Ninety-fifth Pennsylvania Regiment.
Albert, born
April 24, 1848
; resides at
Norristown
,
Pennsylvania
;
married Theresa Manes; no issue.
William Summers, the eldest son of Samuel and Eliza (
Whitby
) Summers, was born
May
30, 1833
, in
Norristown
,
Pennsylvania
.
He received his education in the public schools.
In the year 1851 he was employed as a clerk in a general store at
Conshohocken
,
Pennsylvania
.
In 1858 he commenced business as a dealer in general merchandise on
the corner of Fayette and Washington streets.
In 1880 he erected the store on the corner of Fayette and Elm
streets, where he continued business until the year 1900, when he retired.
He took an active part in promoting the growth and improvement of
the borough. He was elected
burgess of the borough of Conshohocken for two terms, and also served as a
member of town council and school director for several terms.
He also served as a director in the Conshohocken Gas and Water
Company. At the present time
he is librarian of the Montgomery County Historical Society and a member
of the Pennsylvania German Society. On
October
10, 1858
, he married Henrietta Yost,
born March 26, 1833; died
May
18, 1887
,
daughter of Abraham and Maria (Christman)
Yost. She was a
great-great-granddaughter of Jacob Yost,
born
March
16, 1696
; married July 1732, Elizabeth Shambough. He emigrated
to this country from
Zwibrucken
,
Germany
,
landing in
Philadelphia
,
September 21, 1727
.
Children:
William E. Summers, born
June
6, 1860
,
died
March 9, 1897
; married,
February 8, 1888
, Anne Donnelly, born
June, 1866. Children:
William, born November, 1888; died July, 1889;
Frances
,
born
July 9, 1891
.
Clara E. Summers, born
July 16, 1865
;
married
July 26, 1900
, John Murray, born
Jul 14, 1865
.
They resided at
Wharton
,
New
Jersey
.
Lillian E. Summers, born
December
5, 1875
.
Text
taken from pages 490-492 of:
Davis,
William W.H., A.M. History of
Bucks County
,
Pennsylvania
[New York-Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company,
1905] Volume III
Transcribed
February 2004 by Thera Schwenk-Hammond; tsh@harborside.com;
http:// www..rootsweb.com/~schwenk
as part of the Bucks Co.,
Pa.
, Early Family Project, www.rootsweb.com/~pabucks/bucksindex.html
Published
April 2004 on the Bucks County, Pa., USGenWeb pages at www.rootsweb.com/~pabucks/ |
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11/15/2008