Oblio13
10-11-2009, 06:12 PM
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Wife's great great great great great (5 greats) grandparents. John Jacob Hill was a shoemaker who enlisted in the 5th Regiment of the Continental Line and campaigned until the Revolution ended 8 years later. The winter at Valley Forge, crossing the Delaware to attack the Hessians on Christmas eve, the whole bit. Then he went back to making shoes and threw in with Christina Gortner. Her family emigrated from Germany after the Thirty Years War and got here just in time for the French and Indian war, which her father did not survive. He was ambushed, scalped and mutilated in his wheat field by indians hiding under a stream bank. He was buried about where he fell, in an unmarked grave. We searched for the spot, which is pretty well described in three historical accounts, but as far as we can tell it's now a shopping mall.
Wife's great great great great great (5 greats) grandparents. John Jacob Hill was a shoemaker who enlisted in the 5th Regiment of the Continental Line and campaigned until the Revolution ended 8 years later. The winter at Valley Forge, crossing the Delaware to attack the Hessians on Christmas eve, the whole bit. Then he went back to making shoes and threw in with Christina Gortner. Her family emigrated from Germany after the Thirty Years War and got here just in time for the French and Indian war, which her father did not survive. He was ambushed, scalped and mutilated in his wheat field by indians hiding under a stream bank. He was buried about where he fell, in an unmarked grave. We searched for the spot, which is pretty well described in three historical accounts, but as far as we can tell it's now a shopping mall.