In between his cruises and battles he kept coming back like a homing bird, and every time he came he seemed to have won a little more glory with his various ships,--the sloop _Squirrel_, the frigate _Launceston_, and the big ship _Superbe_ with sixty guns.

It is said that no man save only the Governor himself made so fine an appearance as young Captain Warren, and fair ladies vied with each other for his attentions! Nevertheless, his social successes at this time were nothing to what was to come, when he had more money to spend! Two years after his first introduction to New York, the Common Council of the city voted to him "the freedom of the city," from which one gathers some idea of his standing in public favour! And in another year,--of course,--he got married, and to one of the prettiest girls in the town, Susanna de Lancey! Janvier says that the marriage did not take place until 1744, but other authorities place it at thirteen years earlier.

It is much more probable that Peter got married at twenty-eight than at forty-one; I scarcely think that he could have escaped so long! Susanna's father was Monsieur Etienne de Lancey, a Huguenot refugee, who had fled from Catholic France to the more liberal Colonies, and settled here.

He soon changed the Etienne to Stephen, married the daughter of one of the old Dutch houses (Van Cortlandt) and went into business.

Just what his occupation was is not clear, but later he acted as agent for Captain Warren in the disposal of his war prizes.
His sons, James and Oliver, were intimate friends of Peter's through life, and, as will be seen, they worked together most zestfully when in later years the captain's boundless energies took a turn at politics.
So gallant Irish-English Peter and lovely French-Dutch Susanna were married and, we believe, lived happily ever after.