Peter Recher arrived in America in 1751. We know nothing of Recher’s life until his decision to immigrate to the Colony of Pennsylvania in 1751, when he was an unmarried 27-year-old. Remarkably, two letters sent by Recher to his family in Ziefen were translated and published by Klaus Hein in the October 1992 issue of Mennonite Family History. The first letter, written in 1751 provides a full and harrowing description of the effort it took to reach the ship Queen of Denmark on the English Isle of Wight then make the ocean crossing to Philadelphia. Recher would lead a full life in Pennsylvania and Maryland, where he settled in Wolfsville, dying there in 1791. He was the second person buried in Jerusalem Cemetery.
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