The Hochstetler Massacre - Jacob Hochstetler's Captivity

The Captivity of Jacob
We now resume the adventures of our ancestor Jacob. He never became reconciled to savage life but longed for his home, desolate as it was. He never gave up the idea of freeing himself in one way or another. He tried to conceal his desire and feelings, acting as if he were contented and reconciled, but Indians were hard to deceive and in spite of his pretenses, they never fully trusted him. The war had now lasted about six years since 1754 and during the last two years the English and Americans were mostly successful. Canada was taken from the French by the English but the Indians continued their raids. It was at a time when all the men or warriors had gone on a raid to the settlements that he concluded the time had come for him to escape, or die in the attempt.

Taken from p. 37 of Descendants of Jacob Hochstetler, by Rev. Harvey Hostetler, D.D., 1912. This portion was prepared by William F. Hochstetler.

I will post more another time about the historical context of the French-Indian War in which the Hochstetlers and others found themselves embroiled.