The Hochstetler Massacre - The Summer of 1757

The Summer of 1757
From the Northkill Journal and other sources we learn of attacks made by the Indians upon seven or eight families in the immediate neighborhood of our ancestor, upon families with whom he was personally acquainted. He would of course hear reports of murders of hundreds of others who lived at greater distances. A daughter of Andrew Wolbeck of Bern Township was captured by the Indians November 2, 1756. The next day an attack was made on the family of Nicholas Long, near Fort Northkill, and two men were killed and Bernard Motz made captive. In this attack there were about twenty Indians, who were driven off by seven men from the fort, after seventeen farmers, doubtless non-combatants who had gone from the fort with the soldiers, had fled, leaving the seven to do the fighting. On the tenth of December of the same year the house of Valentine Nigh or Neu, . . . neighbor of our ancestor, was attacked, and one of his sons killed and another made prisoner. In the same month the wife of George Peter Gisinger, of Tulpehocken Township, was made captive, and the following April her husband was killed and scalped, and the same day a daughter of Balthazer Smith, of Bethel Township, was carried away captive. April 28th, 1757, John Adam Miller was killed at his home west of the mountain. The next murders were at the Meyers family, who resided about three miles from our ancestor . . . . The summer of 1757 was comparatively free from disturbance, though the Indians kept the settlers in a constant state of apprehension. None knew where the next blow would fall.

Taken from p. 29 of Descendants of Jacob Hochstetler, by Rev. Harvey Hostetler, D.D., 1912. This portion was prepared by William F. Hochstetler.

I don't know if the Miller named here is part of Lizzie Miller's line or not. Could even be part of the Hostetler or Hershberger lines. I will try to check this out.