Thomas Peter
(1769-1834)
BIRTH
1769
PLACE
George Town, Frederick, Province of Maryland
DEATH
1834
PLACE
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
FAMILY
FATHER
Robert Peter
(1726-1806)
WIFE
Martha Parke Custis Peter
(1777-1854)
CHILDREN
America Pinckney Peter Williams
(1803-1842)
CHILDREN
Britannia Wellington Peter Kennon
(1815-1911)
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Thomas Peter (1769–1834) was a Georgetown merchant, banker, and justice of the peace. He married Martha Parke Custis, Martha Washington’s granddaughter, in 1795. They purchased Tudor Place in 1805 and commissioned William Thornton to design its house. Peter served as an executor of Martha Washington’s estate and preserved Mount Vernon objects. A director of the Bank of Columbia, he also owned farms worked by enslaved people and raced horses.
EARLY LIFE
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.
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Thomas Peter died in 1834, in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Thomas Peter was a Georgetown merchant, banker, and justice of the peace. He married Martha Parke Custis, Martha Washington’s granddaughter, in 1795. They purchased Tudor Place in 1805 and commissioned William Thornton to design its house. Peter served as an executor of Martha Washington’s estate and preserved Mount Vernon objects. A director of the Bank of Columbia, he also owned farms worked by enslaved people and raced horses. The available account does not establish a detailed sequence of final symptoms, treatment, or bedside attendance.
Oak Hill Cemetery
Navasota St., Burton, TX, USA
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