His will lists also lists a daughter named Polly. Peter was commissioned Capt. of the Company in New Salem parish (South Colchester), May 1747. He was Deputy for Colchester to the Conn. General Assembly, fifteen sessions; both sessions in 1766, 1767 and 1768; Oct. and Dec. 1775; May 1776, May and Oct. 1782, Oct. 1783, May and Oct. 1784, and May 1787. He was a Justice of the Peace for Hartford County from 1766 to 1779 inclusive (Jacobus, D.L. Rev. Peter Bulkeley, an account of his career, his ancestry, & ancestry of his two wives & his relatives in England & New England, with a genealogy of his descendants. New Haven : 1933, pg. 175-176).