Peter - PETE4
1745
East Hampton

Peter - PETE4
1745
East Hampton

Person

Baptism record and will of Capt. Mathias Burnet

Peter

Enslaved

Male

Ancestry.com: Wills, Vol 015, 1742-1746 (Record of Wills, 1665-1916; Index to Wills, 1662-1923 (New York County); Author: New York. Surrogate's Court (New York County); Probate Place: New York, New York).

New York Probate Records, 1629-1971 New York Inventories 1709-1752 and 1776-1786 Matthias Burnett inventory, Part 3, Page 9. (image 220 in familysearch scanned version)

November 17, 1723

“I leave to my grand son, Burnet Miller, all my lands, meadows, and commonage, and all my right on Montauk, and all stock and cattle, and all wainage and farming tools, and all my books, gun and sword, and my negro peter and my indian boy John."

A Mathias Burnitt is in Town Records v. III p. 136 as a cordwinder by trade. 

Peter, negro sevt. of Capt. Burnet, baptised Nov. 17, 1723 Town Records v.5, p.431: "When Baptised, Peter Negro . . . propounded to him a confession of faith, agreeable to a short catechism in ye book entitled ye Servts. of Abraham . . . This owning of God & engagement ye same as usual at ye baptism of other adult persons."

Burnet's inventory following his death listed "One negro man one indian boy one indian girl" valued at 29 pounds.

Capt. Mathias Burnet