Robert Peter, Esq Mayor

1726 - 1806  (80 years)

• Name	Robert Peter  [1, 2]
  Suffix	Esq Mayor
  Birth	22 Jul 1726	East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, Scotland   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	1790	Georgetown, Kent, Maryland, USA
  	1st Mayor of Georgetown
  Reference Number	10606
  Burial	1806	Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA   [1]
  Death	15 Nov 1806	Georgetown, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA   [1, 2]
  Person ID	I10606	KLD Genealogy
  Last Modified	13 Jul 2026

  
  

  Father	Thomas Peter
  Relationship	bio
  Mother	Jean Dunlop
  Relationship	bio
  Family ID	F3777	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Scott,   b. 23 Jul 1744   d. 2 Nov 1821 (Age 77 years)
  Children	> 1. John Peter  [Father: bio]  [Mother: bio] > 2. Walter Peter  [Father: bio]  [Mother: bio] + 3. Thomas Peter,   b. 4 Jan 1776, Montgomery, Maryland, Colonial America d. 16 Apr 1834, District of Columbia, USA (Age 58 years)  [Father: bio]  [Mother: bio]
  Family ID	F3776	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	13 Jul 2026

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 22 Jul 1726 - East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, Scotland Occupation - 1st Mayor of Georgetown - 1790 - Georgetown, Kent, Maryland, USA Burial - 1806 - Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA Death - 15 Nov 1806 - Georgetown, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show	5 Photos
  	Robert Peter & Elizabeth Scott
  	The charter of the Potomac Company, 1762 from "History of Maryland, 1765-1812", by J.T. Scharf, published 1879
  	Robert Peter slave notice April 3 1760
  	Robert Peter notice January 19 1764
  	Robert Peter, Maryland Census of 1776 signed by "Robert Petor" ("Maryland Records: Colonial, Revolutionary, County and Church" Brumbaugh 1993)

  
  

• Sources

  [S19] Ancestry.com, U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;). [S704] Ancestry.com, U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2014;). U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930