I saw a number of posts asking questions about the "Canadian Peters". Hopefully the following is "new" information. For more details see my grandfathers' book "old families of louisiana". In 1822 a man named Samuel Jarvis Peters arrived in New Oleans from Canada where he was born. His family had moved to Canada in the 1770s' from Conn because they were Loyalists. By 1850 S J was one of the Richest Men in the US (god bless him) and one of the 5 most important men in New Orleans and all of the South. Apparently it was seriously proposed that he run for President (of the US)in 1850. He is said to have single handedly stopped the start of the Civil War in 1850. S J married (as I understand it) the orphan offspring of one of New Orleans' richest and oldest families Eulalie A de la Villebeuvre. My ggrandfather married one of their daughters and hit the Jackpot! No heir of that "merger" had to work for the next 100 years. Interesting story. Huh? The sad ending is that my Gfather spent everything that was left. Nonetheless even today my mother has an entire sideboard filled with museum quality silver pieces engraved with the Peters name on it.