Peter Jürgen Moritz was born at farm no. 8 in Hohenbostel in November of 1711 as son of farm owner Jürgen Carsten Moritz and his wife Margret Elisabeth nee Timm. He took over the farm from his father. On 31 October 1737, he married Anna Dorothea Wieckhorst of Melbeck with whom he had six children, including Hanß Heinrich Moritz. He died at the farm from tuberculosis on 12 August 1758 and was buried in Bienenbüttel on 15 August 1758.
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