Peter Jefferson Duncan

The 1936 stone gives Duncan two campaigns; a muster roll fills in the second. On March 8, 1836, six days after independence was declared, Peter Duncan was captain of the Volunteers and Drafted Men from Lynchburg, a roll of thirty-six names that included Lorenzo de Zavala, A. M. Clopper and Isaac Jacques. Jethro Bancroft, whose own 1936 tablet stands in Houston's Founders Memorial Park, served under him as first lieutenant, and David Scott as second. He lies in the de Zavala family cemetery, inside the state historic site.

What the plaque says

Peter Jefferson Duncan Participated in the cpature of San Antonio in 1835 and served in the army in 1836. Born in New York in 1799; died in Harris County, Texas in 1870.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site — 0.6 mi
  The 1,200 acres of coastal prairie and marsh where the Texas Revolution ended in eighteen minutes, and the 567-foot shaft of fossil-studded limestone that has stood over them since 1939.
• Space Center Houston — 14 mi
  The visitor center of NASA's Johnson Space Center at Clear Lake, with flown capsules, a shuttle replica riding a 747, and tram tours to Mission Control and a Saturn V.
• Emancipation Park — 17 mi
  The Third Ward park that freedpeople bought for Juneteenth in 1872, rebuilt in 2017 on Emancipation Avenue and still the center of the city's June 19 celebration.
• Sam Houston Park and the Heritage Society — 17 mi
  Ten historic buildings gathered in a downtown park below the skyscrapers, among them the 1870 house of the Reverend Jack Yates, built five years after emancipation.

More markers nearby

• de Zavala Plaza — steps away
• Persons Known to Have Been Buried in de Zavala Cemetery — steps away
• Freeman Wilkinson — steps away
• Lorenzo de Zavala — 0.6 mi