Peter Leflet - School Teachers of Early Maryland

School Teachers of Early Maryland
by Robert Barnes
MSA SC 5300

Leflet, Peter, BA, fl. 1792
MSA SC5300-275

Family: He was born in Vitry sur Seine, France in 1766, and on 18 June 1787, he was married to Marie Rosalie Pierrot in Paris, Seine, France. He is listed as Pierre Leflet in French records. (Source: Andriveau, Bernard, Archives privees, Paris marriages from 1750, series 2, alphabetical for Lecamp-Legrand, microfilm 1297208 from Family History Library, Salt Lake City.) His parents were Jean Francois Leflet, “marchand d’arbres” (tree merchant?), and Marie Germaine Chatenay. (Source: Andriveau, ibid., and Internet site Geneanet – alba, in name of Claude Proietti, e-mail claude.proietti@wanadoo.fr).
The next records I have for him are christening records for three children of Peter Leflet and Marie Rosalie Pierrot, in records of Old St. Peter’s Pro-Cathedral, in Baltimore. These children were Peter Gabriel Aristedes, christened on 13 September 1795, and Honoratius Augustus and Alexander [Alexandria?], both christened on 20 April 1800. (Source: Mary and Stanley Piet. Early Catholic Church Records in Baltimore, Maryland, 1782 through 1800).
Career: Peter Leflet also appears as “Peter Laflat, grocer” in the Baltimore Directory of 1799, compiled by Holly G. Wright.
Migration: He next appears in personal property tax records in Prince Edward County, Virginia, in 1804, and in the adjoining Nottoway County in 1805 to about 1812. He also appears in the 1810 U.S. census for Nottoway County, Virginia.
Probate: His final appearance is in Warren County, Kentucky, court order book E, p. 137, 8 Oct 1817, when Alexandria Leflet is bonded to be executor of his estate. No estate inventory is listed. (Source: microfilm 0338333, Family History Library, Salt Lake City).
Later Family: Alexandria is a proven ancestor of mine; her two documented children were Francis, born about 1812, and Petronell, born in the range of 1805-1810. Under the name of Marie Alexandria Louisa Leflet, she was one of the sponsors at the christening of the two children of Peter and Maria Rosalia in Baltimore, in 1800. My working supposition is that she was a relative of Peter’s, not necessarily with birth surname Leflet, who was adopted in France, came to America with the Leflets, and became Peter’s second wife after the death of Marie Rosalia after 1800.
Submitted by Adrian Allen, 1392 Lavine Drive, Pocatello, ID 83201

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