George Washington Peter
(1801-1877)
BIRTH
1801
George Washington Peter
MOTHER
Martha Parke Custis Peter
(1777-1854)
SISTER
Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart
(1754-1811)
SISTER
America Pinckney Peter Williams
(1803-1842)
SISTER
Britannia Wellington Peter Kennon
(1815-1911)
George Washington Peter (1801–1877) was a Georgetown-born farmer, son of Tudor Place founders Thomas and Martha Custis Peter. Called “Washington” by his siblings, he married Jane Boyce in 1840 against his mother’s wishes. He farmed inherited Maryland land, moved to Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, then returned to Georgetown. In 1865 he bought Lynnwood near Ellicott Mills after leasing it for years. Financial troubles marked his later life; he was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery.
BORN
George Washington Peter
Married Name
George Washington Peter was born in 1801, a son of Thomas Peter and Martha Parke Custis Peter, and a brother of Britannia Peter Kennon. Tudor Place’s family research establishes those relationships. No reliable detailed account of his childhood or education was found in the reviewed material.
Tudor Place’s research documents George Washington Peter in family affairs, including his role as a witness to Captain Beverley Kennon’s will in 1844. This establishes a particular recorded activity, but no reliable full account of his occupation, professional career, or public appointments was found in the reviewed material.
CAREER
DEATH
In 1865 he bought Lynnwood near Ellicott Mills after leasing it for years. Financial troubles marked his later life; he was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery. George Washington Peter died in 1877. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
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