 Peter Hess (landowner)

Peter Hess (10 September 1779 – 9 August 1855) was a farmer and landowner.He was born 1779 in Upper Mount Bethel Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania to Loyalist Michael Hess and Gertraudt Van Cortlandt, she a descendant of Stephanus Van Cortlandt, the Bayard family, and the Schuyler family from New York.