Peter Wallace Gallaudet (April 21, 1756 – May 17, 1843) was a personal secretary to US President George Washington in Philadelphia.
[3] Gallaudet enlisted as a soldier in the American Revolutionary War and took part in the Battle of Trenton, December 26, 1776.
Gallaudet and his friend Michael Nourse, who also worked at the Treasury Department, raised $2,000 by selling a booklet titled "A facsimile copy of the Accounts of General Washington's expenses during the Revolutionary War, also a copy of a line of march proposed by him for the British army in the expedition of 1758 against Fort Du Quesne."
Re-published by Order of the Trustees of Washington's Manual Labor School and Male Orphan Asylum.
Gallaudet Observed With Short Chapel Rites", Buff and Blue, Friday, Dec. 17, 1937, pp.