Ancient and historic landmarks in the Lebanon Valley . er, show,in a carefully-kept register of its members, that he wasconverted to this faith in 1749, and communed withthis Gemeinlein for the first time February 2, was born according to this account in Waldau, Bran-denburg, in the province of Saxony. His parents wereGeorge Peter and Barbara Kucher. He was in religiona Lutheran, in profession a blacksmith and farmer, re-ceived into the brethren fellowship during brothersJohn and Josephs land visitation, i. e.^ missionarytour in Heidelberg, Feb. 2, 1749, was married Oct. 6,1735, and ha
Ancient and historic landmarks in the Lebanon Valley . er, show,in a carefully-kept register of its members, that he wasconverted to this faith in 1749, and communed withthis Gemeinlein for the first time February 2, was born according to this account in Waldau, Bran-denburg, in the province of Saxony. His parents wereGeorge Peter and Barbara Kucher. He was in religiona Lutheran, in profession a blacksmith and farmer, re-ceived into the brethren fellowship during brothersJohn and Josephs land visitation, i. e.^ missionarytour in Heidelberg, Feb. 2, 1749, was married Oct. 6,1735, and had a family of ten children, whose namesare given in order in this church record. In 1750 he 196 LANDMARKS IX THE LEBANON VALLEY. donated sufficient land for building and burial purposes,so that in many respects he was a father to this Hebronchurch. The house which he built in 1761 (possiblythe second one) we found still standing. It is a com-modious two-and-a-half-story stone structure (a mansionin those days) with wide middle hall-way and capacious,. THE PETER KUCHER HOMESTEAD. easy central staircase of hard wood. Although it hasnot been occupied for some time and stands like a non-animated corporal, great in its weird and forsaken soli-tude, alongside tlie Quittapahilla and its old race-course just two squares north of Sweet Home, it yetis a relic that is quite attractive to the student of his- THE HEBRON MORAVIAN CHURCH. ^97 tory, in view of the knowledge of its once renownedowner, and the hospitable entertainment it furnishedpastors and bishops and others. When it had life andsoul this now hollow and ghost-harboring buildingmust have been a home as fine as Mt. Vernons man-sion. What a hubbub there must have been in it,when the illustrious owner of that Southern mansion, asthe General-in-chief of the Colonial army in revolt, senta quota of 270 Hessian prisoners from Princeton andTrenton to the sacred house of prayer, where the occu-pants of this house statedly worshipped! Th
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