Between an advertisement of "Window Crown-Glass just over from England," and "A Likely Strong Negro Wench, fit for either Town or Country Business, to be sold," we find a crisp little paragraph: "All Persons that have any Demands on the Honourable Sir.
Peter Warren, are desired to carry their accounts to his Lady, to be adjusted, and receive Payment." Sir.

Peter was, as we have seen, not a person who could sit still and peacefully do nothing.

Inactivity was always a horror to him; even his domestic happiness and his wholesome joy in his wife and daughters could not entirely fill his life when he was not at sea.

His first naive and childish pleasure in his immense fortune was an old story, and the King couldn't provide a battle for him every moment.

The real events of his life were war cruises, but in between he began to take a hand in the politics of New York.