When Peter Metzger was born on 12 January 1794, in Hamilton Township, Monroe, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Casper Metzger Sr, was 42 and his mother, Juliana Elizabeth Best, was 36. He married Hanna Sober about 1823, in Northampton, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Stroud Township, Monroe, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years. He died in 1879, at the age of 85, and was buried in Stroudsburg, Monroe, Pennsylvania, United States.
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South German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a butcher from Middle High German metziger, metzjer, German Metzger (probably deriving from Old French macecrier ‘butcher’).
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