Claramond Colquhoun

CLARAMOND PETER

is the daughter of Robert Peter [National Archives of Scotland, Register House, Edinburgh, Glasgow Sheriff Court Inventories, 1804-1925, A Disposition and Settlement made by Alexander Peter, merchant burgess of Glasgow, reference SC36/48/1, pages 397-406].

Legacy

Claramond Peter is thought likely to be the "Miss Peter" who is mentioned on 6 September 1803, in the disposition and settlement of Alexander Peter, merchant burgess of Glasgow in Scotland. She is identified as the: "only child of Robert Peter, merchant, James River, Virginia, my nephew, son of the said John Peter". Alexander Peter instructed his trustees to pay to her: "or the heirs of her body, one hundred and fifty pounds Sterling, but in case of her decease without issue at the term of payment.....the said one hundred and fifty pounds..... shall be paid to John Peter in Maryland, my nephew, a son of my brother John" [National Archives of Scotland, Register House, Edinburgh, Glasgow Sheriff Court Inventories, 1804-1925, A Disposition and Settlement made by Alexander Peter, merchant burgess of Glasgow, reference SC36/48/1, pages 397-406].

Death and Burial

Claramond Peter died from pneumonia on 30 January 1848. She was sixty-three years of age [John Frederick Dorman, FASG., Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia, 1607-1624/5: Families G-P(Genealogical Publishing Company, 2005), page 329] https://books.google.com/books?id=tcM40zgdAZgC&pg=PA329&lpg... She was buride in Blandford Cemetery in Petersburg, Virginia, in the United States of America [City of Petersburg: Blandford Cemetery Records] http://www.petersburg-va.org/blandford/detail.asp?search=49553