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Facts and Events
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Hochstetler Building our Future from Our Past
References
- Hostetler, Harvey, and William F. Hochstetler. Descendants of Jacob Hochstetler, the Immigrant of 1736. (Elgin, Illinois: Brethren Publishing House, 1912)
page 75.
- Kauffman, Daniel. Mennonite Cyclopedic Dictionary
157-8; 166-7, 1937.
- Arrived on the ship Charming Nancy in Philadelphia on November 9, 1738 with his family. Listed as 26 years old.
- During the French and Indian War the tension grew between the Amish settlement in the Northkill and the Indians. One day in 1757 Anna, Jacob's wife, his young daughter, and his son Jacob were killed during the last Indian Massacre in that part of Pennsylvania. Jacob and his sons Joseph and Christian were taken captive. The Indians burned the farm before they left. Jacob and the boys were separated, and during their captivity were made to conform to Indian customs and to dress in Indian style. They pulled out Joseph's beard and part of the hair on his head leaving only a tuft to braid. Christian was adopted by an aged Indian who treated him as a son, and Joseph was adopted into another family in full fellowship. Jacob finally escaped in 1760 and later petitioned the governor for assistance in securing release of his two sons. They had been held captive for over five years, when they were released. Christian converted to the Dunkard religion, and remained in the white community. In 1760 Jacob would have been 48 years old, nobody knows where he lived for a few years, perhaps with his son John, or his daughter Barbara Sutzman. On 6/28/1765 he bought a farm ten miles south of the massacre site in North Heidelburg Township
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