America Pinckney Peter Williams
(1803-1842)
BIRTH
October 12, 1803
PLACE
DEATH
April 25, 1842
PLACE
FAMILY
FATHER
Thomas Peter
(1769-1834)
MOTHER
Martha Parke Custis Peter
(1777-1854)
SISTER
Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart
(1754-1811)
SISTER
Britannia Wellington Peter Kennon
(1815-1911)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
America Pinckney Peter Williams (1803–1842) was Thomas and Martha Custis Peter’s daughter, raised at Tudor Place in Georgetown. She met army engineer William George Williams during Lafayette’s 1824 visit and married him in 1826. She stayed at Tudor Place as their family grew, later joining him in Buffalo, where she died. After his death at Monterrey in 1846, their orphaned children were cared for by her mother and sister. Her husband also painted her portrait.
EARLY LIFE
America Pinckney Peter was born on Oct 12, 1803. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for America Pinckney Peter is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. America Pinckney Peter died on Apr 25, 1842. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
America Pinckney Peter died on Apr 25, 1842. America Pinckney Peter Williams was Thomas and Martha Custis Peter’s daughter, raised at Tudor Place in Georgetown. She met army engineer William George Williams during Lafayette’s 1824 visit and married him in 1826. She stayed at Tudor Place as their family grew, later joining him in Buffalo, where she died. After his death at Monterrey in 1846, their orphaned children were cared for by her mother and sister. Her husband also painted her portrait. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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