[Unk] Hill and Magdalena Hower

---

---

Husband [Unk] Hill ¹

---

            AKA: John Hill 2
           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 1782
         Buried: 

---

         Father: John Jacob Hill (Abt 1716-      ) 1
         Mother: Maria Appolonia Merklin (      -      ) 1

---

       Marriage: 

---

---

Wife Magdalena Hower ¹

---

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

---

Children

---

1 M Squire John Hill ^{2 3 4 5 6}

---

           Born: 25 Feb 1772 7
     Christened: 
           Died: 8 Jan 1848 1
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Elizabeth Waltz (Abt 1779-1817) 3 4 6 8

         Spouse: Susannah Ament (Abt 1791-1884) 5

---

2 M Jacob Hill ^{1 4}

---

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

---

3 F Hannah Hill ^{1 4}

---

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

---

---

General Notes: Husband - [Unk] Hill

---

Westmoreland Co, PA

It is not known which of the sons of John Jacob Hill this is.

He was captured by a party of marauding Indians while returning home from a distance with a load of fruit trees he had procured for planting, and was taken with other captives to a point up the Allegheny river locally known as Hickory Flats. All that is known of his fate is from the traditional account of a Mrs. McVeigh, one of his neighbors, who was taken at the same time, and who by some means was enabled to return to the settlements. He was made to run the gauntlet, which he did successfully, and while he was standing by watching the fate of the others Mrs. McVeigh fell, and was being clubbed, when he ran through a second time, picked her up and carried her through, doubtless saving her life. She said that by such deeds of strength and daring he had gained some favor in the eyes of the Indians, had been allowed some freedom, and had been able to perfect a means of escape, having secured and concealed a canoe on the river bank. He intended to leave a certain night, and that day confided his plans to a fellow prisoner, a German, offering him the chance of escape, too. The German, to gain favor, revealed the plans to the Indians, who tied Hill securely to a tree, and left him to whatever form of death the wilderness might bring. He was tortured from time to time until he died, but at the risk of her life Mrs. McVeigh would take him water.

1 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 571.

2 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 470.

3 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 677.

4 Robert Walter Smith, Esq., History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins, & Co., 1883), Pg 613.

5 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1123.

6 Scott Lee Boyd, The Boyd Family (Santa Barbara, CA: Self-published, 1935), Pg 53.

7 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 470, 571.

8 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 470, 576.