(l730-10 Sept. 1803), U E Loyalist. (John Cameron the Wise) Born in Rannoch, Perthshire, Scotland. He came to New York colony on the Pearl, l773, served in the King's Royal Regiment of New York in the Revolutionary War, and settled in GC as a UEL. His home on the Front of Charlottenburgh Township was called Fairfield. He was an innkeeper, and owned considerable land. He married (1) Catherine Seaton, (2) Elizabeth Ferguson, who continued the inn after his death. He was the father of John Cameron the Rich.

Scott ii * Harkness 137-39 * H.L. Remmel in GHS Annual Volume l3 (l973) * Alex. W. Fraser, 1001 Name Index of Descendants of John Cameron ‘The Wise’ (l985), abbreviated in the present dictionary as Fraser, Cameron * MacGillivray & Ross 297