In 1734 another former printer with Benjamin Franklin, Lewis Timothy, revived the Gazette[2] and ran it until his accidental death in December 1738.

Peter also worked with the colonial postal service and was appointed Deputy Postmaster-General of the Southern Provinces.

It was in his own Gazette that Peter Timothy advertised in 1764 for his own runaway black slave, a "well dressed female who spoke English, French and Italian" – and whom he apparently never found.

When, in 1780, as Charleston prepared again for an invasion by the British, Peter Timothy boarded a ship with Colonel John Laurens (e.g., John's March 4, 1780 letter to his father), to chase the British and keep his Journal reporting on the events of the time, making Peter Timothy one of America's earliest war correspondents.

"[citation needed] According to a local contemporary writing in 1810, in 1781 Timothy was exchanged for another prisoner and delivered to Philadelphia.