Peter Mallett (1712 - 1760)

Born 31 Mar 1712 in Stratfield, Fairfield, Connecticut

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Died 10 Jan 1760 at age 47 in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut

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Biography

• Buried at Tashua in Trumbull, CT, but stone does not survive.
• Died of smallpox.
• Peter was a slave trader/owner and traded/bartered in slaves. His will is dated 10 December 1759 and proved on 24 January 1760 in Fairfield. In his will, he ordered that all his Negroes be sold.^[1]
• His son Peter relocated to North Carolina, establishing a Southern branch of the family.
• His inventory was recorded on 10 November 1760 in Fairfield.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ “Probate Records, v. 11-12, 1753-1762”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L92K-Y2LV  : 2 June 2022), FHL microfilm 007627290, image 544-545, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, Vol 12, 1747-1761, Page 456-458.
2. ↑ “Probate Records, v. 13-14, 1753-1764”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-892K-YBPN  : 14 June 2022), FHL microfilm 007627296, image 517-519, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, Vol 14, 1761-1763, Page 431-435.

• Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection)
• John Mallet, the Huguenot, and his Descendents 1694-1894, compiled by Anna S. Mallett. (Harrisburg Publishing Co, Harrisburg, PA, 1895), page 44
• Ancestral Records & Portraits, A Compilation from the Archives of Chapter I., the Colonial Dames of America, Volume II (prepared under the direction of the publication committee by the editorial department of the Grafton Press.) Originally published New York, 1910. Republished Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, 1969. ISBN: 0-8063-0078-7. Chapter XLIV, page 765, "Mallett"
• Sons of the American Revolution application
• findagrave.com
• Wikipedia (Nero Hawley)
• Jacobus, Donald Lines. History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield (For the Eunice Dennie Burr Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, 1930) Vol. 2, 122.