Thomas Peter
BIRTH
1769
George Town, Frederick, Province of Maryland
DEATH
April 16, 1834
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
FAMILY
FATHER:
Robert Peter
(1726-1806)
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Peter, Thomas
(1769-1834)
Thomas Peter (1769-1834) was a merchant and the spouse of Martha Parke Custis Peter. Martha Parke Custis Peter was a member of a prominent Revolutionary-era family whose career or family position supplies an important part of this entry’s Revolutionary context. The marriage connected Thomas Peter to the political, military, commercial, or social developments surrounding the Revolution. This life overlapped the Revolutionary era, when war, political upheaval, disrupted trade, military service, and changing governments placed unusual demands on households and extended families. Surviving documentation is strongest in genealogical, family, estate, and marriage records rather than in a separate public biography. Including Thomas Peter in HistoryGPS records the family, professional, and social networks that connected individuals to the wider Revolutionary generation.
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WIFE
Martha Parke Custis Peter
(1777-1854)
George Peter
(1779-1861)
America Pinckney Peter
(1803-1842)
Britannia Wellington Peter Kennon
(1815-1911)
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DIED:
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Apr 16, 1834
The exact date and place of Thomas Peter’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. 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.
The available biographical record identifies Thomas Peter with work or public activity as a merchant. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.