Peter (White)

Quick Facts

Significance:

Patriot of Color at Battle Road

Place of Birth:

Brookline, Massachusetts(?)

The following is from the 2004 National Park Service study Patriots of Color researched and prepared by George Quintal:

Nothing is known of Peter’s early life.^I

He served at Battle Road in the company of Capt. Thomas White, in Col. William Heath's regiment. On the roll he is listed as “Esq White’s Peter.”^II

This man is probably the same man listed as ‘Peter White’ who served in the Continental Army from Brookline in 1777.^III

Footnotes:

1. Soldier description unavailable – soldier placed in database based on status of slave/servant alone.
2. Secretary of Commonwealth. Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War (1896-1908), 12:788. Also 2-CD Family Tree Maker^TM set “Military Records: Revolutionary War.”
   Also Coburn, Frank Warren. Muster Rolls of the Participating Companies of American Militia and Minute-Men in The Battle of April 19, 1775, … (1912), 46.
3. Secretary of Commonwealth. Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War (1896-1908), 17:117. Also 2-CD Family Tree Maker^TM set “Military Records: Revolutionary War.”

Learn more about Quintal's study.