07-02-2015, 12:33 PM
(07-02-2015, 12:00 PM)PhilHos Wrote: Interesting side note: the first of my ancestors to come to America were Anabaptist. And because of their anti-violence stance, the wife, 2nd eldest son, and youngest daughter were killed by indians in the French and Indian War and they kidnapped the rest of the family (minus the oldest son and daughter who were already married and living elsewhere at the time).
Somehow, through it all, they managed to retain their Anabaptist beliefs and never resorted to violence.
My ancestors (on my father's side) were in modern day Somerset County in PA during the French and Indian War, so they were on the frontier of it all. I am unaware of any of them falling victim to any violence in the area, but they were Anabaptists and so would not have fought. My mother's side, also Anabaptists, didn't make their way here until the time between that war and the Revolution, making their way here into the Shenandoah Valley during that time frame, escaping much of the violence of that war. Though the Civil War did claim the lives of some of those ancestors because they were executed (some by the Union, some by the CSA) under suspicion of espionage because they would aid anyone that needed it and one of them would travel to Pennsylvania and Ohio to minister to congregations in those areas.
