I was recently given the following info on an ancestor of mine and want to ask any of you if you have ever come across someone who might be this Peter - especially in relation to the east coast ports of the US, or anywhere else, for that matter. The reference comes from the shipping returns for the port of St George's, Grenada (an island in the West Indies which imported goods from the USA - at least from the late 1820s onward) held in the Public Record Office in the UK. In January 1812, Peter was listed as the master of the 53-ton sailing vessel "Two Brothers" (built at Argyle, Nova Scotia in 1800 and said to "belong to America")which arrived carrying a cargo of 20,000 wooden staves. By December that same year, he had apparently become part owner of this vessel (that he was still skippering). He later seems to have left the sea and settled in Grenada, becoming quite a prosperous merchant, if one is to judge by the frequency of ads he placed in the local paper, and the number of real estate transactions (deeds in the Court Registry) that bear his name. He was a member of the Grenada House of Assembly, a lieutenant in and adjutant of the St George's Regimant of the Militia, and a Commissioner of Roads. He sat for a portrait in oils; an extremely lifelike painting, it shows him relaxed but alert, wearing a white waistcoat under a dark jacket and looking every bit the well-groomed, prosperous businessman. I can e-mail this to anyone who is interested. I have not been able to trace a will made by Peter, and I have no exact dates or places of birth/death - only estimates. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Regards to all listers. Philip Bellamy (Trinidad, W.I.)