A history of the German Baptist Brethren in Europe and America . land he cultivated in cereals andin flax. In 1720 he had for an apprentice the after-wards famous Conrad Beissel. Beissel lived inBeckers house for one year; then left for the Cones-toga country, and then eventually Peter Beckerbaptized him and made of him the head of theConestoga church. Peter Becker was married to Anna Dorothy Part-man, and their children have many descendantsamong the churches in eastern Pennsylvania. In1747 he removed to the Skippack and spent his lastdays in the home of this daughter Mary, then the wifeof Ru
A history of the German Baptist Brethren in Europe and America . land he cultivated in cereals andin flax. In 1720 he had for an apprentice the after-wards famous Conrad Beissel. Beissel lived inBeckers house for one year; then left for the Cones-toga country, and then eventually Peter Beckerbaptized him and made of him the head of theConestoga church. Peter Becker was married to Anna Dorothy Part-man, and their children have many descendantsamong the churches in eastern Pennsylvania. In1747 he removed to the Skippack and spent his lastdays in the home of this daughter Mary, then the wifeof Rudolph Harly. His other daughter, Elizabeth,was married to Jacob Stump. Here he was congregation on Indian Creek was the homeplace of worship of the Prices and others who weredear to him. On the very spot where he frequently (i) See life of Christopher Sower, in which these letters to the Governor aregiven in lull. 196 History of the Brcthrcii. preached now stands a new house—the home ofAbraham H. Cassel, the antiquarian, and one of
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