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[[File:Peter_Van_Garrett_-_Edited.png|350px|thumb|right|Peter Van Garrett]]

== Background ==
Peter Van Garrett is a wealthy land owner and resident of Sleepy Hollow, New York.  His son is [[Dirk Van Garrett]] and his wife was Virginia Stendal, but she died in 1790.  Peter was born in 1740.

== During the events of [[Sleepy Hollow (1999)]] played by [[Martin Landau]] ==
Peter writes and signs his last will and testament which is witnessed by [[Jonathan Masbath]].  As Peter is traveling in his carriage, driven by Dirk, a horse quickly rides by.  He hears the sound of a sword being unsheathed and looks outside his carriage window and sees Dirk, now headless.  Peter jumps out of the carriage and into a corn field where he too has his head cut off.