| Entry Type | Person |
| Forenames | Peter |
| Place | Foston Hall |
| Epithet | enslaved page boy at Foston Hall |
| Dates | fl1680s |
| Gender Identity | Male |
| Cultural Heritage | African descent |
| Biography | A 'black boy' was delivered to Richard Bate Foston Hall in August 1687, and a bill paid by Richard Bate in February 1689 includes shoes for 'Black boy Peter'. The Bate family owned plantations in Barbados, and Richard Bate married the daughter of another plantation owner, Sarah Newton, in 1677. She inherited plantations herself in 1680.
Peter, therefore, was likely an enslaved child on one of their Barbados plantations who was shipped to England after the Bate family moved from Barbados to Foston Hall in Derbyshire; Black page boys were fashionable in the late 1600s and well into the 1700s. No further evidence of Peter's life has yet been discovered. |
| Authorised Form of Name | Peter (fl1680s); enslaved page boy at Foston Hall |
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