Peter Perdreau was a French Huguenot who resided somewhere along the Cape Fear River. In 1724 he promised to pay Peter Johnson fifty shillings. When Peter Johnson's wife Anne came to collect the debt and Peter Perdreau could not pay, Perdreau asked the Johnsons to collect the debt from his father Peter Perdreau Sr. instead. When the Johnsons arrived at Perdreau's Sr.'s home, they found Peter Jr.'s mother and father both dead and proceeded to rob the house to collect on Peter Jr.'s debt. The Johnsons were initially charged for the theft, but the court eventually dropped the case. Perdreau likely died in South Carolina in about 1731.