Mike,

I'm not a Peters descendant or researcher.  I was just intrigued by your posting and decided to take a look at the original census images. 

Apparently the 1850 census had quite a few problems.  In my direct SC lines I've found a married daughter and her children listed in her father's household under his surname. Another where known children from a first marriage were listed incorrectly under the second marriage surname.  And the most difficult one was the given & surname completely reversed.  That one took me a couple of years to find because I initially checked the film page by page scanning down the surnames only. When this particular census was published by a genealogical society, I finally discovered the problem.  This was way before the World Wide Web and the convenience of Ancestry.com's census images online.

Good luck with your research,

Joy
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  I look forward to hearing from you & to continuing this discussion.

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