Person:Peter Bonticou (1)

Name^[1]^[2]	Captain Peter Bonticou
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]	8 Jun 1741	Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
Marriage	14 Nov 1762	New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United StatesFirst Congregational Society to Susanna Thomas
Death^[1]	1779	Huntington, Suffolk, New York, United States
Probate^[1]	5 Mar 1781	Administration to the widow.

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 Bonticou, in Jacobus, Donald Lines. Families of Ancient New Haven. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1974)
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"Peter (Bonticou), b 8 June 1741 (Stratford Vital Records), d 1781; Capt.; …"
↑ 12 Peter Bontecou, in Morris, John Emery. The Bontecou genealogy : a record of the descendants of Pierre Bontecou, a Huguenot refugee from France. (Hartford, Conn.: Case, Lockwood, and Brainard, 1885)
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"Peter Bontecou was captain of the barque 'Hawke,' of 47 tons, trading to Ireland, and returning via the West Indies. … Capt. Bontecou on one of his homeward voyages entered the harbor of New York, which chanced to be at that time in possession of the British, and was captured and confined on the prison-ship 'Jersey'; but afterwards escaping and making his way homeward through Long Island, was seized with the small-pox (undoubtedly contracted in prison), and died at a tavern in Huntington, in 1779. Letters of administration were granted to his widow March 5, 1781. His estate inventoried at £600 10s. 0¾ d."