Samuel Peters (1735-1826)

Cameron, Kenneth W., ed. The Works of Samuel Peters of Hebron, Connecticut, New England Historian.... Hartford: Transcendental Books, 1967.

Cohen, Sheldon S. Connecticut's Loyalist Gadfly: The Reverend Samuel Andrew Peters. Bicentennial pamphlet XVII (1976). A fine short study by a scholar who knows Peters well. The best place to go first. See also Cohen's "Yale's Peripatetic Loyalist: Samuel Andrew Peters," Journal of the NHCHS 25(Summer, 1977)1:3-7.

Metz, Wayne Normile. The Reverend Samuel Peters (1735-1826): Connecticut Angli­can, Loyalist Priest." Doctoral dissertation, Oklahoma State University, 1974. Metz pictures Peters as a man touching the great events of the Revolutionary era but having "little direct influence on them. He was a 'born loser,' backing the wrong side in the Revolution, failing to receive preferment in England and . . . unsuccessful in his attempt to carve out a great state at the headwaters of the Mississippi." (from the abstract)

Middlebrook, Samuel. "Samuel Peters: A Yankee Munchausen." New England Quarterly 20(March, 1947)1:75-87. Peters' career "has a zany madness about it that deserves a nod and a smile from the muse of informal history." (p. 76)

O'Neil, Maud. "Samuel Andrew Peters: Connecticut Loyalist." Doctoral dissertation, U.C.L.A., 1947.