Peter Fisher (Puritan)

Peter Fisher (fl. 1626–1657) was a puritan politician active in Ipswich, Suffolk in the seventeenth century.^[1]

Civic roles in Ipswich

Fisher was a mercer whose civic career in Ipswich started in the 1620's, when he shared the role of Ipswich Corporation Chamberlain with Barnaby Burroughe for 1626/7.^[2]

In 1630 he compiled with others a surveyors account detailing payments from residents, the names of those who performed statute labour, (i.e. unpaid mandatory labour required for upkeep of the roads) and any payment made to labourers.^[2]: 132 From 1639 until 1644 he was Town Treasurer.^[2]: 244

Fisher was one of a number of committeemen in Ipswich who participated in the second commission of the Suffolk Committees for Scandalous Ministers.^[3]

Family life

Peter married a daughter of Robert Snelling, Portman of Ipswich. Snelling had two other daughters who married Edmund Calamy the Elder and Matthew Newcomen^[3]: 112