Peter Fisher (fl. 1626–1657) was a puritan politician active in Ipswich, Suffolk in the seventeenth century.[1]
Fisher was a mercer whose civic career in Ipswich started in the 1620's, when he shared the role of Ipswich Corporation Chamberlain with Barnaby Burroughe for 1626/7.[2]
In 1630 he compiled with others a surveyors account detailing payments from residents, the names of those who performed statute labour, (i.e. unpaid mandatory labour required for upkeep of the roads) and any payment made to labourers.[2] From 1639 until 1644 he was Town Treasurer.[2]
Fisher was one of a number of committeemen in Ipswich who participated in the second commission of the Suffolk Committees for Scandalous Ministers.[3]
Peter married a daughter of Robert Snelling, Portman of Ipswich. Snelling had two other daughters who married Edmund Calamy the Elder and Matthew Newcomen[4]