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MORAVIAN CHURCH IN AMERICA
Southern Province
Dr. Adelaide L. Friee   4 East Bank Street
1124 S. Cherry St.       Winston-Salem, N. Carolina 
Winston-Salem 3, N. C.

Memoir of Brother Peter Binckele, who departed this life Aug. 20, 1793
     He was born March 2, 1704 in the village Guckensberg, in the Canton Bern in
Switerland. His parents were Christian Binckele and his wife Elizabeth, maiden
name Burg.
     In his ninth year his father passed out of time. On account of their poverty
our Brother had been obliged to seek his support from others already in his sixth
year.
     In his thirteenth year his mother moved to Alsace, and the following year his
brother came for him , and he lived with his brother for three years, herding his
cattle.
     Then he served another farmer for two years. This man advised him to learn the
trade of a shoe-maker, but he had been in that work only fourteen days when he en-
gaged himself to an innkeeper as a driver.