Peter Sewally

Peter Sewally
Peter Sewally
	Lithograph of Mary Jones
Died	Unknown
Other names	Mary Jones
Occupation	Prostitute

Peter Sewally (fl. 1836–1853) was an American gender-variant prostitute who presented as a woman under names including Mary Jones.^[a] According to The Sun, she^[b] would wear "a dashing suit of male apparel" in the day, while dressing in feminine attire and wearing a prosthetic vagina at night to solicit sexual services for men and steal their money. She is most well known for being the subject of a trial in 1836 where she was charged with grand larceny for stealing the wallets of men she engaged in sexual acts with. She is considered to be one of the first recorded openly gender-variant or transgender people in New York history.^[7]^[5]

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