“Peter served as a private in the Revolutionary War, under Captain Joseph Holmes, in Colonel Dayton’s 2nd Regiment. He enrolled from New Jersey, 5 March 1778, and was discharged the 1st of October,, 1780, from the hospital at Princeton, New Jersey, where he had been confined.

Peter was at ‘The Battle of Monmouth’ at Monmouth, New Jersey. General George Washington was the commanding officer at this battle.”380