Peter Fine (1724 - 1799)

Born 1724 in New Jersey Colony

Ancestors

Died 1799 at about age 75 in Frederick County, Maryland

This profile is part of the Fine Name Study.

Possible Siblings/Cousins

Peter Fine

John Fine

Thomas Fine

Elizabeth Fine Leming

Records

MINUTES OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, HUNTERDON COUNTY

• February Term 1756: Thos. Low versus Peter Fine - Unless the clerk made a mistake, Peter Fine in this case had prevailed against Thomas Low and here Thomas Low is released from custody for the same reasons as described above.
• August Term 1765: Jost Happagh versus Peter Fine, entries run to Feb. 1767 they are John Happagh administrator for Jost Happagh, deceased against Peter Fine who owed money to the deceased. No disposition here but there is more on this case later.

MISCELLANEOUS RECORDS – HUNTERDON COUNTY ARCHIVES

• 1760: Estate of Zackariah flomerfelt (could be Homerfelt) owes Peter Fine 54 pounds. The case was resolved in Peter’s favor in 1768.
• 1765-1769: Happaghs versus Peter Fine: Peter Fine signed a statement that he was in debt to Josh Happagh in 1759. Josh died and John Happagh, the administrator of Josh’s estate sought to recover the debt. Peter at one point was ordered to custody of the Sheriff. Peter countered that he had paid Josh before he died. Eventually the case went before a jury and the jury ruled against Peter in 1769.
• The records consistently describe Peter as “Peter Fine(or ffine) ffarmor otherwise called Peter Fine of the County of Hunterdon in the province of New Jersey ffarmor...”

• Source for records: Glen Fine is the Admin of the Fine DNA Project at FTDNA. This was part of a much bigger message from 2005, I found in the Fine archive at Rootsweb, I cut the stuff about Peter Fine out and made this. Kari Lemons 1-11-2015 http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/FINE/2005-11/1131051671

Fine-226 was created by Dave Patrick through the import of Robert Henry Cunningham Branch.ged on Sep 5, 2014.