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Jacob Hochstetler (I28565)

Male 1736 - 1757  (21 years)

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  • Name Jacob Hochstetler  [1, 2, 3, 4] 
    Relationshipwith Albert Leopold Vitter
    Birth 1 Sep 1736  Bern, Switzerland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Event 19 Sep 1757  Northkill Amish Settlement, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 5, 6, 7, 8] 
    Indian raid during the night of 19 Sep 1757 and following morning in which the husband Jacob was captured, his wife and two children were killed and scalped, and some two other sons captured. 
    Hochstetler Attack
    Jacob Hochstedlers Farmstead
    Death 20 Sep 1757  Northkill Amish Settlement, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 4] 
    Siblings 3 brothers and 2 sisters 
     1. John Jacob Hochstetler, Sr.,   b. 1730, Bern, Switzerland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Apr 1805, Somerset, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 75 years)
    ▻Catherine R. Hertzler,   b. 1731, Bern, Switzerland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1800, Elk Lick, Somerset, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 69 years),  m. 1750, (Berks County was formed in 1752 from parts of Chester, Lancaster, and Philadelphia Counties), Berks, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  
     ▻Anna Christner,   b. 1745, Grosshöchstetten, Bern-Mittelland, Bern, Switzerland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 Apr 1824, Elk Lick, Somerset, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 79 years),  m. Abt 1800, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  
     2. Anna Barbara J. Hochstetler,   b. 1732, Bern, Switzerland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1787, Shartlesville, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 55 years)
    ▻Christian Stutzman, II,   b. 1732, Bern, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 17 Nov 1770, Shartlesville, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 38 years),  m. 1753, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  
     3. Jacob Hochstetler (current person),   b. 1 Sep 1736, Bern, Switzerland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Sep 1757, Northkill Amish Settlement, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 21 years)
     4. Joseph Hochstetler,   b. 1 Aug 1742, (Berks County was formed in 1752 from parts of Chester, Lancaster, and Philadelphia Counties), Berks, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 Aug 1812, (Juniata County, Pennsylvania was formed from part of Mifflin County in March 1831), Fermanagh, Juniata, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 70 years)
    ▻Anna Blank,   b. 1740, Bern, Switzerland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Jan 1806, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 66 years),  m. 2 Mar 1761, (Dauphin County was formed from part of Lancaster County on 4 March 1785), Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  
     ▻Barbara Kauffman,   b. 19 Apr 1738, (Before 1813 Lebanon County, Pennsylvania was a part of Lancaster and Dauphin Counties), Annville, Lebanon, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 13 Jan 1813, (Juniata County, Pennsylvania was formed from part of Mifflin County in March 1831), Mifflin, Juniata, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 74 years),  m. Abt 1807  
     5. Christian Hochstetler,   b. 13 Feb 1746, (Berks County was formed in 1752 from parts of Chester, Lancaster, and Philadelphia Counties), Upper Bern, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 2 Apr 1814, Randolph, Montgomery, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 68 years)
    ▻Barbara Rupp,   b. 13 Feb 1745/46, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 2 Apr 1814, Vermillion, Indiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 68 years),  m. UNKNOWN  
     6. Veronica Hochstetler,   b. 1748, (Berks County was formed in 1752 from parts of Chester, Lancaster, and Philadelphia Counties), Berks, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Sep 1757, Northkill Amish Settlement, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 9 years)
     
    Person ID I28565  Vitter-Weaver Genealogy
    Last Modified 25 Mar 2024 

    Father Jacob Hochstetler,   b. 1712, Échery, Haut-Rhin, Alsace, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Jun 1776, (Before 1813 Lebanon County, Pennsylvania was a part of Lancaster and Dauphin Counties), Annville, Lebanon, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 64 years) 
    Mother Anna Barbara Bürki of Lorentz,   b. 3 Jan 1700/01, Mammern, Thurgau, Switzerland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Sep 1757, Northkill Amish Settlement, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 56 years) 
    Marriage 1729  Bern, Switzerland Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    Family ID F20675  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 1 Sep 1736 - Bern, Switzerland Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsEvent - Indian raid during the night of 19 Sep 1757 and following morning in which the husband Jacob was captured, his wife and two children were killed and scalped, and some two other sons captured. - 19 Sep 1757 - Northkill Amish Settlement, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 20 Sep 1757 - Northkill Amish Settlement, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Documents
    The Hochstettler Massacre Document    		The Hochstettler Massacre Document

    Histories
    Mennonite Beginnings    		Mennonite Beginnings
    The history traces Sharon (née Weaver) Vitter's 10th great grandparents of 16th century Switzerland and their Anabaptist/Mennonite/Amish descendants who emigrated to America in the 1700s, as did many others, to escape religious persecution.
    		The Hochstetler Attack: Life on the Frontier
    One of the most well-known anecdotes in Amish and Mennonite history is the story of pacifist Jacob Hochstetler and the tragedy his family underwent at the Northkill Settlement in Berks County, Pennsylvania.

  • Sources 
    1. [S541] Ancestry.com, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Mennonite Vital Records, 1750-2014, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2015;).
      Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Mennonite Vital Records, 1750-2014 Document      		 Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Mennonite Vital Records, 1750-2014 Document


    2. [S307] Jeffrey & Sharon Vitter, Family Database of Vitter-Weaver Family, (Name: Self; Location: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; Date: Since 1996;), Mennonite Beginnings.
      The history traces Sharon (née Weaver) Vitter's 10th great grandparents of 16th century Switzerland and their Anabaptist/Mennonite/Amish descendants who emigrated to America in the 1700s, as did many others, to escape religious persecution.
      https://vitter.org/familytree/histories/MennoniteBeginnings.php

    3. [S307] Jeffrey & Sharon Vitter, Family Database of Vitter-Weaver Family, (Name: Self; Location: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; Date: Since 1996;), The Hochstetler Attack: Life on the Frontier.
      One of the most well-known anecdotes in Amish and Mennonite history is the story of pacifist Jacob Hochstetler and the tragedy his family underwent at the Northkill Settlement in Berks County, Pennsylvania.
      https://vitter.org/familytree/histories/HochstetlerAttack.php

    4. [S1037] James C. Hostetler, Family Database of James C. Hostetler, (Name: Swiss Anabaptist Genealogical Association;), Jacob Hochstetler.
      Name JACOB HOCHSTETLER
      Born 1712 Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, France
      Gender Male
      Died 1776 Lebanon Co., PA
      Person ID I30 Hostetler Database
      Last Modified 7 Mar 2016

      Children
      1. John Hochstetler, b. 1730, Europe, d. 1805, Somerset Co., PA (Age 75 years)
      2. Barbara Hochstetler, b. 1732
      3. Jacob Hochstetler, d. 21 Sep 1757, Berks Co., PA
      4. _____ Hochstetler, d. 21 Sep 1757, Berks Co., PA
      5. Joseph Hochstetler, b. Abt 1744, Berks Co., PA Find all individuals with events at this location, d. 1812, Juniata Co., PA (Age ~ 68 years)
      6. Christian Hochstetler, b. Abt 1746, Berks Co., PA Find all individuals with events at this location, d. 01 May 1814, Montgomery Co., OH (Age ~ 68 years)
      Last Modified 7 Mar 2016
      Family ID F28 Group Sheet | Family Chart

      Notes
      Came to the United States Nov 9 1738 on the Charming Nancy. DJH 1, Gingerich-Kreider HS. My American progenitor. Dates from H/H/H Family Newsletter, September 2001; Hermann Guth: Amish Mennonites in Germany, p 184

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      http://69.197.190.243/getperson.php?personID=I30&tree=Hostetler

    5. [S873] Hugh Gingerich and Rachel Kreider, Amish and Amish Mennonite Genealogies, (Name: Pequea Bruderschaft Library; Date: 2007;).
      Gingerich and Kreider (2007), Amish and Amish Mennonite Genealogies

    6. [S1431] Daniel E. Hochstetler, Family Database of Descendants of Jacob Hochstetler, (Name: Jacob Hochstetler Family Association; Location: Elkhart, Indiana, USA;), Jacob Hochstetler.
      JacobHochstetlerHistory_Page_2 Document      		 JacobHochstetlerHistory_Page_2 Document
      JacobHochstetlerHistory_Page_1 Document      		 JacobHochstetlerHistory_Page_1 Document


    7. [S1433] Beth H. Marks, Our Flesh and Blood: A Documentary History of the Jacob Hochstetler Family, (Name: Jacob Hochstetler Family Association; Location: Elkhart, Indiana, USA; Date: 3rd edition 2009;), Route of Jacob Hochstetler after his capture.
      Jacob Hochstetler Capture Document      		 Jacob Hochstetler Capture Document


    8. [S1432] The Hochstetler Massacre, (Name: Roadside America Miniature Village; Location: Shartlesville, Pennsylvania, USA; Date: Circa 1962;), Story about the September 19–20 attack of the Hochstetler family by the Delaware and Shawnee Indians.
      The Hochstettler Massacre Document      		 The Hochstettler Massacre Document



 


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