Peters Family Info - Monroe Co. WV


Research concerning Christian Peters, the founder of Peterstown, Monroe 
Co., WV, at the D.A.R. Library in Washington, DC, by David Clurman and 
Pete Ballard of Peterstown, WV, as published in a letter to the Editor of 
the 
Monroe Watchman, Union, WV:

In 1793/94, Christian Peters kept "a house of private entertainment" on 
Rich Creek, evidently at his original settling place two miles east of 
Peters- 
town. This is stated in a letter by Capt. Hugh Caperton (of New River), 
dated December 17, 1794, to Gov. Robert Brooke of Virginia, wherein 
he asks the Governor to acknowledge and pay a receipt for "Rations" 
provided to Caperton and forty members of his militia when detained at 
Peters' place, prior to Feb. 14, 1793, for two weeks on account of bad 
weather while enroute to Kanawha.
Ref: "Calendar of Virginia State Papers", vol. 7, p. 395



Submitted by Dorothy Miller <DaMiller@inetone.net>
USGenExchange Co-ordinator for Monroe Co.

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