The dates of birth and baptism are noted to be inconsistent. I suspect that the date of birth is the more accurate.

Peter Lurvey enlisted as a private in Capt. David Warner's 1st Company on 19 July 1775 and was stationed at Gloucester for the defense of the seacoast. He answered the alarm bells in Gloucester Harbor on 8 August 1775 when the British Sloop of War "Falcon", under the command of Captain John Linzee, entered the inner harbor chasing a West Indiaman that had come within her range. Lurvey, along with several members of the Town's militia took up positions to protect the grounded Indiaman and pinned down members of a British boarding party sent to cut her out of the harbor. The "Falcon" shelled the town for four hours before some of the landing party could retreat from the fight. In the melee, Peter Lurvey was shot and killed. He was one of two men killed that day178.

Peter was one of the noted residents of Dogtown. His residence, #25 Common Road, is well documented.

Baptism: 15 October 1738, Third Parish, Gloucester, Essex County Massachuse