Guest Lecture: The Revolutionary War Adventures of John Peter

“The Revolutionary War Adventures of New York Loyalist John Peter” presented by author Todd Braisted. In 1774, John Peters of Mooretown, Gloucester County, New York (now Vermont) was a Judge of Probate of the Court of Common Pleas, colonel of the militia and recorder for the county.  Respected by his neighbors, he was chosen as a representative to the First Continental Congress. Within two years, those same neighbors would drive him from his home for his political views, forcing him to flee to the British in Canada. By 1777 he was a colonel in the British service, leading a regiment of Loyalists under General John Burgoyne. Peters had little idea then that his misfortunes were just beginning. Join us as we look at the career of this most interesting, and sometimes bewildering, Loyalist of the American Revolution.