Peter SILVESTER

Father: Richard SILVESTER
Mother: Naomi // 

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Notes

Updated January 2, 2025. Compiled by Howder (www.howderfamily.com) from the following source(s):

(1) Winthrop, John. Winthrop's Journal, "History of New England," 1630-1649. Edited by James Kendall Hosmer, LL.D. New York City, New York, United States, C. Scribner's sons, 1908. Volume II; Page 72.

"There fell out a very sad accident at Weymouth. One Richard SYLVESTER, having three small children, he and his wife going to the assembly, upon the Lord's day, left their children at home. The eldest was without doors looking to some cattle; the middle-most, being a son about five years old, seeing his father's fowling piece, (being a very great one,) stand in the chimney, took it and laid it upon a stool, as he had seen his father do, and pulled up the cock, (the spring being weak,) and put down the hammer, then went to the other end and blowed in the mouth of the piece, as he had seen his father also do, and with that stirring the piece, being charged, it went off, and shot the child into the mouth and through his head. When the father came home he found his child lie dead, and could not have imagined how he should have been so killed, but the youngest child, (being but three years old, and could scarce speak,) showed him the whole manner of it."

(2) American Genealogical-Biographical Index via Ancestry.com: Early Records of Boston

- Name: Peter SILVESTER
- Birth Date: 1637
- Birth Place: Massachusetts, USA
- Occupation: D.y.
- Volume: 159
- Page number: 245
- Reference: A Genealogical Dict. of the First Settlers of New England, Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692. By James Savage. Boston. 1861. (4v.)V.4:100

(3) The New England Historical & Genealogical Register via Ancestry.com: Early Records of Boston

"Peter sonne of Richard SILVESTER buryed 13 (6) 1642."

(4) The New England Historical & Genealogical Register via Ancestry.com: Weymouth

"SILVESTER, Peter, s. Richard, 'buried' Aug. 30, 1642... P.R.18."

(5) Silvester, Albert Henry, "Richard Silvester of Weymouth, Mass., and Some of his Descendants," New England Historical and Genealogical Register volume LXXXV (Boston, MA: 1931), p. 257.

- Died in August 1642
- Richard and his wife left their three small children at home while they went to assembly on the Lord's day (Sunday)
- Peter, unattended, accidentally shot himself through the head with his father's fowling gun
- Burial at Weymouth, Massachusetss on August 30, 1642