Peter Williamson or Indian Peter, 18th century showman
Peter Williamson or Indian Peter (1730-1799), showman in costume of a Delaware Indian in warpaint with tomahawk pipe, feather headdress, musket, scalping knife and animal skin clothes. Aberdeen boy sold into indentured servitude on a Pennsylvania plantation in 1740, kidnapped by Cherokee Indians in 1754 then captured by French troops. Author of the autobiography French and Indian Cruelty, 1756. Portrait copied from The Grand Magazine of June 1759. Lithograph after a stipple engraving by Robert Cooper from Henry Wilson and James Caulfield's Book of Wonderful Characters, Memoirs and Anecdotes, of Remarkable and Eccentric Persons in all ages and countries, John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly, London, 1869
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