Peter Ballantine

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Peter Ballantine (1781January 23, 1883) was founder of Patterson & Ballantine Brewing Company in 1840 in Newark, New Jersey.

He was born in 1781 in Dundee, Scotland. He married Julia Wilson (1796 - ?) who was from Troy, New York, and they had the following children:

  • Peter Hood Ballantine (1831-1882) who married Isabella L. Linen (1835-?)
  • John Holme Ballantine (1834-1895) who married Jeannette Boyd (1838-1919)
  • Robert Francis Ballantine (1836-1905) who married Anna Elizabeth Brown (1838 - ?) of New Jersey. All the children were born in Albany, New York.

Peter Ballantine died in 1883 in Newark, New Jersey, aged 101.