Jacob Arndt was born on the Abraham Arndt family homestead farm in Williams Twp., Pa. on May 15, 1760. The Jacob Arndt House ca. 1810, still stands on the land where Jacob, son of Henry Arndt lived.
Private Jacob Arndt enlisted in Captain John Van Atten's Northampton County Volunteer Militia Company on June 15, 1780. Private Arndt was killed in an ambush at the Sugarloaf Massacre, in Conyngham, Pennsylvania, near Hazelton on September 11, 1780. He was having lunch with his company when a combination force of Indians and British Loyalists attacked. His company volunteered to defend what was at that time the Pennsylvania frontier, during the Revolutionary War. His name is listed on a monument that was installed near where the battle occurred and where those who were massacred are buried.
Private Jacob Arndt enlisted in Captain John Van Atten's Northampton County Volunteer Militia Company on June 15, 1780. Private Arndt was killed in an ambush at the Sugarloaf Massacre, in Conyngham, Pennsylvania, near Hazelton on September 11, 1780. He was having lunch with his company when a combination force of Indians and British Loyalists attacked. His company volunteered to defend what was at that time the Pennsylvania frontier, during the Revolutionary War. His name is listed on a monument that was installed near where the battle occurred and where those who were massacred are buried.
Jacob Arndt was born on the Abraham Arndt family homestead farm in Williams Twp., Pa. on May 15, 1760. The Jacob Arndt House ca. 1810, still stands on the land where Jacob, son of Henry Arndt lived.
Private Jacob Arndt enlisted in Captain John Van Atten's Northampton County Volunteer Militia Company on June 15, 1780. Private Arndt was killed in an ambush at the Sugarloaf Massacre, in Conyngham, Pennsylvania, near Hazelton on September 11, 1780. He was having lunch with his company when a combination force of Indians and British Loyalists attacked. His company volunteered to defend what was at that time the Pennsylvania frontier, during the Revolutionary War. His name is listed on a monument that was installed near where the battle occurred and where those who were massacred are buried.
Private Jacob Arndt enlisted in Captain John Van Atten's Northampton County Volunteer Militia Company on June 15, 1780. Private Arndt was killed in an ambush at the Sugarloaf Massacre, in Conyngham, Pennsylvania, near Hazelton on September 11, 1780. He was having lunch with his company when a combination force of Indians and British Loyalists attacked. His company volunteered to defend what was at that time the Pennsylvania frontier, during the Revolutionary War. His name is listed on a monument that was installed near where the battle occurred and where those who were massacred are buried.
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