HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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the Revolution ; muster roll, August 25, 

 1779. 



Feter died November 24, 1783 ; married 

 August 3, 1769, Catharine ^laenchen. Chil- 

 dren : 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 quarter- 

 master. 



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 Regi- 

 ment in the war of the Revolution. He re- 

 sided at the time of his death in Warring- 

 ton 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; marred, May 

 6, 1766, Catharine Dessinger. Children : 

 Mary, married Daniel Linker; Henry Sum- 

 mers Linker, and Elizabeth, who married 

 'Squire Clevenger. Henry was enrolled as 

 a private in Captain Isaac Cooper's com- 

 pany, 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 Muh- 

 lenberg, 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 pur- 

 chasing his farm he resided in the follow- 

 ing places : Douglass, Cheltenham, and 

 Manor of Moreland in 1769. Philip was 

 enrolled as a private in Captain David Mar- 

 pole's company, 1777-1780. His name is in 

 the depreciation pay roll, Pennsylvania Ar- 

 chives, 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 Au- 

 gust 8, 1827. Children : John, Sarah, Isaac 

 and Enos. 



3. Philip Summers, born 1770, died July 

 3, 1834; married Catharine Hurst, born De- 

 cember 18, 1772, died June 18, 1827. Chil- 

 dren : 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. Mar- 

 ried (second) Susannah Johnson. Chil- 

 dren: Elizabeth and Elijah. 



8. Peter Summers, born 1778, died March 

 12, 1865 ; married Susannah Schwenk, born 

 July 24, 1770, died March 10, 1865. Chil- 

 dren : Eva Maria, Sarah and Noah. 



9. Elizabeth Summers, born September 

 I, 1781, ded October 12, 1803. 



Martin Summers (grandfather,) named 

 above, born December 5, 1764, died July 27, 

 1845 ; married Elizabeth Houpt, born Au- 

 gust 4, 1766, died November 4, 1822. Issue: 

 Sarah, married George Bossert ; Georgt, 

 married Sarah Hilkerd; Martin, married 

 Elizabeth Freed ; Anna Margaret, married 

 Nicholas Gouldy; Philip, married Ann 

 Shutt ; Elizabeth, marred Andrew Keel ; 

 Samuel, married Eliza Whitby; Hannah,, 

 married Philip Shambough. Martin mar- 

 ried (second) December 11, 1823, Mrs. Anna 

 Elizabeth Sterigere, born January i, 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 church- 

 yard of St. John's Episcopal church, Nor- 

 ristown, Pennsylvania. His first place of 

 residence was in Horsham township, second 

 Gwynedd township, third Providence town- 

 ship, 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) 

 towuship September 27, 1804; died July 18, 

 1881 ; married March 22, 1832, by Rev. 

 George Wack, to Eliza Whitby, born March 

 22, 1809, died November 16, 1898. She was 

 the daughter of Anthony and Mary (Berk- 

 heimer) Whitby. He resided in the bor- 

 ough 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 ceme- 

 tery, 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 Fourteentn 

 Pennsylvania Regiment. Charles, born De- 

 cember 2, 1839; died January 14, 1874; em- 

 ployed as a clerk with his brother William, 

 at Conshohocken, Pennsylvania. Anna 

 Elizabeth, born January 7, 1843 ; resides at 



