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Last name Field
First name Peter
Display name Peter Field
Birth date 1753
Death date 1839
Gender m
Affiliations Society of Friends
Bio notes Peter Field was a silversmith and watchmaker. He worked in Albany, New York, from 1795 to 1800, but also worked in elsewhere in New York State in New York City, Hudson, Newburgh, and Auburn, as well as Danbury, Connecticut. Peter married Phebe Doty, daughter of Elijah Doty and Susannah Ferris, in 1779 in Quaker Hill NY.

Mentioned in:

Journal of a Visit to the Seneca Indians, 1796, by James Cooper of Woodbury, N.J.

Joseph Clark's Account of a Journey to the Indian Country, 1797