[4] He was editor of the Democratic paper The Morning Herald, and the weekly Corrector, to which his friend William Alexander Duer contributed and which supported Aaron Burr in his contest with Morgan Lewis for New York Governor.
He was too reserved to print obvious lies, or to pass on ugly rumors and pitch abusive words at Burr's enemies.
Civil Peter knew whom he could turn to for help: Washington resented Cheetham's unprovoked assaults on his brother, including the suggestion (with clear homosexual overtones) that he was merely the slavish follower of a known libertine.
Senator from Georgia), Speaker Thomas Storm, and Daniel D. Tompkins (later Governor of New York and Vice President of the United States).
[5] Peter also wrote the first five chapters of his brother Washington's 1809 satirical novel, Knickerbocker's History.