Peter was born in 1839. He is the son of Lafford Totten and Maria Van Schoonhoven.
1850 --- U. s. Federal Census, Burten, Adams County, Illinois -- Dwelling Number: 140 - Family Number: 149 - Line: 26 - Page 21B - Microfilm Roll: 97 ---- Lafford Totten 54 (head/farmer) New York --- Maria 50 (wife) New York --- Cimela 22 (daughter) New York -- Mary 18 (daughter) -- Silas 14 (son) Illinois --- Peter 11 (son) Illinois --- Marco 6 (son) Illinois --- 1850 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by Family Search. --- Original data: Seventh Census of the United States, 1850; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, 1009 rolls); Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, D.C.
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