(born 1762), U E Loyalist. (spelling Sommers also found) The Summers family has been described as of German origin but also as coming from Nottingham, England. Jacob Summers was born in the Thirteen Colonies. He was on the Crown side in the War of the American Revolution, and served in the King's Royal Regiment of New York from 1777 to 1783, achieving the rank of corporal. He appears on the Old U E Loyalists list as a a resident of Charlottenburgh Township. Probably the son of Andrew Summers. He was probably also either the father or the brother of the Andrew Summers whose daughter Margaret was married to Col. Alexander Fraser of Fraser’s Point. The daughter Elizabeth of a Jacob Summers was, by some accounts, the wife of John Cameron the Rich, member for GC in the provincial legislature. Through this marriage, the Jacob Summers in question was the ancestor of John A. (“Cariboo”) Cameron. However, Andrew Summers has also been listed as the father of Elizabeth. (Reid) The names Elizabeth Von Mather and Anne Cameron are given for the wives of a Jacob Summers.

UE List 263 * Reid 313 * Cruikshank King's Royal Regiment of New York 263 * Scott ii, 34 * memoir of unnamed member of Summers family, dated at Toronto, Feb. 1934 and headed “The Last Survivor by Himself” (copy in present author’s files) * Harkness 138 * Fraser (1959) 39 * Summerstown Post Office: MacGillivray & Ross 329, 333, 337 * obituary Glengarry News 10 Jan. 1896, of Mrs Jane Summers, died aged 87, widow of David Summers [probably son of Jacob Summers], associated with Summers Hotel, Summerstown, repr. Fraser Obits. 81