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Johann Peter BINGGELI (BINKLEY)

Johann Peter BINGGELI (BINKLEY)[1]

Male 1704 - 1793  (89 years)


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  • Name Johann Peter BINGGELI (BINKLEY)  [2] 
    Birth 2 Mar 1704  Guggisberg, Canton Bern, Switzerland Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Christening 2 Mar 1704  Guggisberg, Bern, Schweiz Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Gender Male 
    Baptism 2 Mar 1704  Guggisberg, Bern, Helvetia Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4] 
    Arrival 1736  Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    FamilySearch ID KN4N-96J 
    Immigration 16 Sep 1736  [3, 4] 
    Immigrated on the "Princess Augusta," arriving in Philadelphia 
    MilitaryService 2 Sep 1782  Salisbury, Rowan, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Name Peter BINCKELE  [3] 
    Name Peter Binggeli  [4] 
    Name Peter the Moravian  [3] 
    Religion   [3, 4] 
    Lutheran 
    Religion Alsace, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4] 
    Moravian 
    _UID 693496866C194E5E8C31C1C1E79A3B31162E 
    Burial Aug 1793  Bethania Moravian God's Acre, Bethania, Forsyth, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3] 
    Death 20 Aug 1793  Bethania, Stokes County, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Person ID I12780  Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
    Last Modified 8 Dec 2024 

    Father Hans Christian BINGGELI,   b. 10 Oct 1669, Guggisberg, Canton Bern, Switzerland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1713, Canton Bern, Switzerland Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 43 years) 
    Mother Elsbeth BURRI,   b. 11 Apr 1669, Guggisberg, Canton Bern, Switzerland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 14 May 1729, Fouday, Niederrhein, Elsass, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 60 years) 
    Marriage 20 Oct 1693  Guggisberg, Canton Bern, Switzerland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F6487  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 "Anna" Marie Salome WERLEY (WERLI),   b. 28 Oct 1704, Steinthal District, Alsace, France/Switzerland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Sep 1748, Codorus Township, York, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 43 years) 
    Marriage 2 Feb 1724  Steinthal District, Alsace, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Anna Maria Barbara BINCKELE,   b. 1 Jun 1722, Steinthal District, Alsace, Germany Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 Jan 1791, Stokes County, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 68 years)
     2. Marie Salome BINKELE,   b. 26 Dec 1725, Steinthal District, Alsace, Germany Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1734, Alsace, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 8 years)
     3. Catharina BINKELE,   b. 25 Mar 1727, Steinthal District, Alsace, Germany Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 3 Mar 1791, Strasburg, Shenandoah, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 63 years)
     4. Christian "Christman" BINKELE,   b. 27 Sep 1729, Steinthal District, Alsace, Germany Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 30 Apr 1779, Forsyth County, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 49 years)
     5. Anna Maria BINCKELE,   b. 26 Jun 1731, Steinthal District, Alsace, Germany Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 1734, Steinthal District, Alsace, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 2 years)
     6. Maria Sarah BINCKLEY,   b. 24 Feb 1733, Steinthal District, Alsace, Germany Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Sep 1820, Stokes County, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 87 years)
     7. Anna Margaretha BINCKELE,   b. 24 Jul 1735, Steinthal District, Alsace, Germany Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aug 1791, Dutch Hollow, Augusta County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 56 years)
     8. Christina BINCKELE,   b. 21 Feb 1738, Warwick, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1799, Cumberland, Robertson County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 60 years)
     9. Elisabeth BINCKELE,   b. 16 Feb 1740, Codorus, York County, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Feb 1740, Codorus, York County, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 0 years)
     10. Anna Barbara BINNGELI,   b. 26 May 1741, Codorus, York County, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 Jan 1791, Salem, Stokes County, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 49 years)
     11. Joannes Christian BINKLEY,   b. 26 Mar 1743, Codorus, York, Pennsylvania, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Jun 1801, 13th Civil District, Robertson, Tennessee, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 58 years)
     12. Colonel Johann Adam BINKLEY (BINCKELE),   b. 12 Aug 1744, Codorus, York County, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Mar 1837, Sycamore Creak, Cheatham, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 92 years)
    Family ID F6412  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 15 Dec 2022 

    Family 2 Anna Margaretha GEIGER,   b. 18 Jan 1721, Wurttemberg, Germany Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Feb 1803, Stokes County, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 82 years) 
    Marriage 3 Feb 1749  York, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Children 
     1. Elisabeth BINCKELE,   b. 8 Dec 1749, York, Pennslyvania Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Jan 1780, Graceham, Frederick, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 30 years)
     2. Christian BINCKELE,   b. 18 Jan 1751, York, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Apr 1799, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 48 years)
     3. Captain Johann Peter BINKELE,   b. 30 Jan 1753, Codorus, York, Pennsylvania, British America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 Apr 1819, Forsyth County, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 66 years)
     4. Anna Maria BINCKELE,   b. 22 Feb 1755, Codorus Township, York, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 Jul 1759, York, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 4 years)
     5. Frederick BINKLEY,   b. 4 Nov 1757, Codorus, York, Pennsylvania, British America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 Apr 1834, Stokes County, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years)
    Family ID F6413  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 30 Jan 2024 

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  • Notes 
    • Peter Binckele was born in 1704 in Guggisberg, Canton Bern, Switzerland, son of Christen Binckele or Binggeli and Elsbeth Berg/Burri. His father died when he was about 9, and when he was 13 his mother moved into Alsace. He was living with his brother in the Steinthal district of Germany when he met and married Anna Maria Werle (1704-1748). They came to America in 1736 on the Princess Augustus. They lived at Warwick (Lititz) and then near York, PA, where Anna Maria died in 1748. Peter married Anna Margaretha Geiger (1722-1803), widow of Johannes Schemel, in 1749, moved with her to Monocacy Maryland in 1763, and finally settled near Bethania NC in 1772. He died there in 1793, survived by 11 of his total of 23 children from the two marriages. Will of Peter Binkley Stokes County, NC, August 7, 1790 In the name of God Amen, I peter Binkley of the County of Stokes in the State of NC being of sound disposing mind memory and understanding through the Mercy of God, Do make and ordain this my last Will and testament in manner and from following that is to say, First and principally I resign my soul with the utmost Humility into the hands of the Almighty God my Creator humbly hoping for a blessed immortality through the Merits and meditation of my blessed Savior and redeemer Jesus Christ & my body I desire may be peacebly and decently buried. And as for such Temporal Estate as the lord in his great goodness & mercy has given me & whereof I am now in possession I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife MARGARETHA during her natural life all the rents interest profits and income of all my Estates both real and personal to have and to hold the same for and during her natural life and unto the full end & espiration thereof. And as for the Management of my said Estate I will that after my decease an exact inventory and appraisement of all my Estate borth real and personal be made by two knowing and honest Freeholders out of the Neighborhood the one of them to be chosen by my said wife Margartha and the other by my executors hereafter to be named and if two such freeholders cannot agree then the said freeholders shall choose the third freeholder to be arbiter between them . And I will that after the execution of such inventory and appriasement/: Copies whereof in writing are to be given, one unto my said wife Margaretha and another unto my executors. All my lands, tenements, -------livestock, and chattel by my said exectors shall be let out at and for the most impoved rent that may and can be gotten for the same for the benefit of my said wife Margaretha and therefore she shall be maintained for and during her natural life and so that the lands, tenements ------& buildings with every thing there unto belonging or appertaining and also every thing rented away shall be kept in good order by the renter or executor. I further will that my said wife MARGARETHA shall keep and rent the plantation whereon I now live together with the buildings thereon if she is willing to do so and in case she declines the keeping and the said plantation then the said plantation by my said executors shall be let out to any other person or persons to the best advantage as aforesaid and further I willl that in any case my said wife MARGARETHA during her natural life shall keep unto her own use my now dwelling house without an Gift or Maturation whatsoever. I further give and bequeath unto my sons JOHN Binkley, PETER Binkley, FREDRICK Binkley, JOSEPH Binkley, JACOB Binkley, CHRISTIAN Binkley, and JOHN SHEMEL all in the State of NORTH CAROLINA and likewise unto my son JOHN ADAM Binkley in CUMBERLAND to each of them the sum of three pound lawful money of the State to be taken into possession by each of them within one half year after the decease of my wife Margaretha. After deduction the above twenty four pounds which I have already disposed of, all my estate both real and personal shall be divided into fourteen equal parts of which I give unto my son John Binkley now in North Carolina one part. I give unto my son Peter Binkley now in North Carolina one part. I give unto my son Joseph Binkley now in North Carolina one Part. I give unto my son Fredrick Binkley now in North Carolina one part. I give unto my son Jacob Binkley now in North Carolina one part. I give unto my son Christian Binkley now in North Carolina two parts. I give unto my son John Adam Binkley now in Cumberland one part. I give unto my son John Shemel, who is a natural son of my wife Margaretha now in North Carolina 1 part. I give into my Daughter SARA BARTLY, wife of EDWARD BARTLY of North Carolina one part, I give unto my daughter CHRISTINA FISHER, wife of CHASPER FISHER of Cumberland one part. I give unto my daughter CATHERINE HONIG wife of HONIG, Dec'd of STOVERSTOWN in VIRGINIA one part. I give unto my Daughter MARGARETHA WOLLEWEATHER, WIFE OF ULRIC WOLLENWETHER of STANTON in VIRGINIA one part. I give unto my daughtger ELIZABETH HERBACH, deceased late the wife of GEORG HERBACH of MANAKOSEY in MARYLAND one part and whereas my daughter Elizabeth Herbach is deceased I will that the part belonging to her shall be given to and divided among the Children of her body equally to each one alike out of the above part. And I will that each of my sons and each of my daughters shall have their parts respectively within the span of one year after the above Division. And I will that my son Christian Binkley, who seems to be of a Simple & unthoughtful Mind and disposition shall Choose one of his own Brothers, with who he shall stay during the remainder of his life which Brother so chose if he is willing to perform it shall give a bond with approved Security unto my said son Christian to be secured by any honest & able friend he may choose for that purpose that my said son Christian during the remainder of his lifetime and to the full end and expiration thereof shall stay with him the said Brother. He, the said Brother during all such time shall find unto and for my said son Christian good and sufficient meat, Drink, clothing, washing, lodging, and good attendance in Sickness and after his decease shall cause him to be decently buried. He, the said brother as a reward for his services shall have all the benefit of my son Christian's labors and after having performed all and every such Article and Articles the said brother shall have then all the inheritance which my said son Christian may then have or which he may be entitled to take possession of by virtue of this my Last Will & testament and I further will that all and every of my Children who may have had of me money, land, good, or chattel or any other articles whatsoever on account of their respective inheritances before the signing of this my Last Will and Testament shall be accountable for the same unto my Estate and also shall pay interest at the rate of 5 per Centum per annum unto my Estate and the Interest to begin from the first Day of January AD, one thousand seven hundred & niney one and likewise I will that who afterward may get any Articles of what name soever of me or of my said Wife Margaretha on account of his or her inheritance shall therefore be accountable unto my Estate and shall pay interest as above mentioned unto my Estate after the decease of my said wife Margartha and I will that after the decease of my Wife Margaretha any real Estate by my executors hereafter to be name shall be sold to the highest Bidder ad to the best advantage and I herewife eimpower my said executors to make good, full and sufficient title of all my real Estate or any part thereof to any buryer thereof. And I will that my Execturos shall not be answerable the one of or the other or for the acts, deed or defaults of the other nor shall either of them be answerable for any part of my Estate but such as shall come to his respective hands. And I do hereby will and appoint they my executors shall by and out of my Estate retain & Satisfy themselves all such Costs and charges as they shall reasonable be put unto in the execution of this my last Will and testament. And I do revoke hereby all other wills by me formerly made & declare this only to be my last will & testament. And I do appoint my sons John Binkley Executors thereof And in Case they or any of them shall die or move out of this State then the next oldest of my sons living in this State shall be the executor and executor thereof. In Witness whereof I the said Peter Binkley heir for the two first Sheets & for this third & last sheet of this my last will set my hand and seal unto this third Sheet. And I do herewith acknowlege all the three Sheets comprehensively to be my last Will & Testament this third Day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninty one. Peter Binkley (his Mark) Signed Sealed published and Declared by the said Testator Peter Binkley as and for his last Will & Testament in the presence of us who have subscribed our names and witness thereto in the presence of the said Testator, Abraham Steiner, Juret; Christian Stauber, Matthew Esterlein.

  • Sources 
    1. [S872] Sara Binkley Tarpley, Sara Binkley Tarpley, http://www.binkleytarpley.com/peterbinggeli.html (Reliability: 3).

    2. [S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 29 Jan 2024), entry for Frederick BINKLEY, person ID L6GZ-D2K. (Reliability: 3).

    3. [S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 15 Dec 2022), entry for Johann Peter BINGGELI (BINKLEY), person ID KN4N-96J. (Reliability: 3).

    4. [S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 30 Jan 2024), entry for Johann Peter Binckele, person ID KN4N-96J. (Reliability: 3).



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