Note: In this Chancery suit, George Zeigler is called George Sickler. We learn from this document that George Zeigler's wife/widow was named Barbara.
http://www.lva.virginia.gov/chancery/case_detail.asp?CFN=171-1780-003
3 Dec 1772
p.3
... and the said Geo Sickler promised your Orator from Time to time that he would get his Deed from the proprietor's office & compleat your Orators Title to the part so purchased; but being old & infirm he still delayed applying to the office for the same; untile he was murder'd by the Enemy Indians some time on or about the year MDCCLX__ . [i.e., 176_; 1764 would be MDCCLXIV.] without having made any Will or Testament. by which the aforesaid Tract of Land discended to his seven daughters as Coparceners the said George Sickler having no male issue surviving at the time he was murderd, which said Daughters to wit Barbara, Margaret, Elizabeth, Susanna, Magdalen, Catherine & Mary Sickler were Infants under Age at that juncture under the Tuiton of their Mother Barbara widow of said George Sickler (and one of the Defendants to this Bill) and so continued untile the eldest Daughter Barbara intermarried Nathl Syrone [sic], the second Margaret intermarried with John Maurer & the third Elizabeth intermarried with John Wartmiller, the other four daughters being still Infants under Age, and tho the said widow Barbara Sickler and the oldest of the said Coparceners, are conscious that your Orator had purchased the said part or parcel of Land of the said Decedent George Sickler in his Life time ...
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p.5
Barbara Sickler widow of George Sickler deced
The joint & several answers of ^ Barbara wife Nathl. Syrone, Margaret wife of John Maura, and Elizabeth wife of John Wartmiller, which Barbara Margaret & Elizabeth are Daughters & Orphens of George Sickler deecd and the joint answers of Susanna Sickler Magdelena Sickler Catherine Sickler & Mary Sickler Daughters of the said Geo Sickler deced & Infants under the age of twenty one years by Henry Freble [sic-Fravel] their guardian, defendts. to the Bill of Complaint of George Grinstaaf Complainant
... And the said Barbara Syrone answering for herself says that she remembers her late Father in his Life time sold the parcel of Land in the Bill mentioned to the Complaintant George Grinstauf, and that she has heard her said Father say that he had received the pay for the same, and the said Margaret Maurer answering for herself saith she has heard her late father George Sickler in his Life time acknowledge that he had been paid Complaintant Grinstauf for the Land in said Bill mentioned but which was the Sum she does not know. And the said Elizabeth Wartmiller answering for herself says that she knows nothing of the Transaction in the Bill mentioned further than by report that her late Father George Sickler had sold the Land in the Bill mentioned in his Life time to the Complaintant and had received the Consideration agreed on. Barbara Sickler widow & relict of the said George Sickler deceased answereth & saith for herself that she was present when her late husband in his Life time made the Bargain with the Complaintant for the Land
p.2 [sic - it should come between page 5 and page 6]
in the Bill mentioned, and seen the Line marked which was to be the boundary between the two Tracts, and that the purchase money was paid to her said Husband some time before he was murdered by the Savages, and further that her said Husband agreed to make the said Complaintant a Title for the parcel of Land sold to him as aforesaid whenever he got a Deed from his Lordships Office for the original Tract, which he never did in his Life being hindered by his great Age & the troublesome Times from applying for the same. without that That there is any other or Thing material or necessary for these Defandants to make answer unto and not herein & hereby well & sufficiently answer'd unto confessed & avoided traversed or denied. and these Defendants deny all Manner of Combination &c as to which Matters & Things --ed & these Defend'ts ...
Hog for Defendants
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Note: Many sources, including this one, suggest that George Zeigler (aka Sigler) was killed
by Indians in 1765. It is more probable that he was killed in 1764. This was during the Indian
war known as "Pontiac's Uprising" or "Pontiac's Conspiracy", which began in May 1763.
Although the Indians were defeated by Henry Bouquet at Bushy Run in August 1763, they
continued to raid the frontier settlements of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia until Bouquet
took the British army into the Ohio Country and forced the Indians to sue for peace in November
1764.
http://books.google.com/books?id=81AVAAAAYAAJ
A History of the Valley of Virginia
Samuel Kercheval, Charles James Faulkner, John Jeremiah Jacob
Samuel H. Davis, 1833 - History - 486 pages
p.134
...
About the year 1765, the Indians made their appear-
ance in the neighborhood of Woodstock, in the county
of Shenandoah. On Narrow Passage creek, 18 or 20
p.135
women and children had collected together, in order to
go to the fort at Woodstock. An old man by the name
of George Sigler was with them. Five Indians attack-
ed them. Sigler, after firing, and wounding one in the
leg, clubbed his gun and fought to desperation. While
he was thus engaged, the women and children made
their escape, and got safe to the fort. Sigler broke his
gun over the heads of the enemy, wounded several
of them pretty severely, and received himself several
wounds, but continued the fight until he fell from the
loss of blood, when his merciless enemies mangled his
body in a manner shocking to behold.*
...
* Mr. Christian Miller, a very aged and intelligent man, gave the author
this narrative.
[Note: In his book A History of Shenandoah County, Virginia (c. 1927),
John Walter Wayland identified Christian Miller as a son of Jacob Miller,
founder of Woodstock. Wayland also predicted that "Some day a monument
will be erected at Narrow Passage to the heroism of George Sigler."]
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Accounts of attacks given in the Maryland Gazette of June 21, 1764 included one which took place
"near the Narrow Passage" about June 3rd.
This one might have been the attack on George Zeigler's party:
https://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc4800/sc4872/001280/html/m1280-1219.html
Maryland Gazette, Thursday, June 21, 1764, page 2, columns 1
...
Extract of a Letter from Virginia, June 4.
" The Situation of our Frontiers is truly distressing.------
The Indians killing and captivating daily.------About eight
Days past, upwards of forty persons were killed at the Pa-
stures on the Frontiers of Augusta County.------We were
hopeful our Troubles were in some Measure over ; but, to
our Surprize, the Indians came on Friday last [June 1st], about seven
Miles from me, and took one Day's Wife, and four Chil-
dren. Next Morning [Saturday, June 2nd], about Sun-rise, four Families
going to a Fort with Horses loaded, the Indians Way-laid them,
and killed and captivated 21, whose Names were Lloyd,
and his Family, Clonper, Jones, Thomas, &c. This Morn-
ing [Monday, June 4th], about Two o'Clock, I was informed that about Sun-
set Yesterday [Sunday, June 3rd], six Families were cut off near the Narrow Pas-
sage. Two Companies of Men are gone after the Enemy,
to re-take the Captives, if possible, of which there are as
yet no Accounts."
...
The same report had appeared in the Pennsylvania Gazette a week earlier:
The Pennsylvania Gazette
(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Thursday, June 14, 1764
page 2, column 3
...
Extract of a Letter from Virginia, June 4.
“ The Situation of our Frontiers is truly distressing.-----The
Indians killing and captivating daily.-----About eight Days past,
upwards of forty Persons were killed at the Pastures, on the
Frontiers of Augusta County-----We were hopeful our Troubles
were in some Measure over ; but to our Surprize, the Indians
came on Friday last, about seven Miles from me, and took one
Day’s Wife, and four Children. Next Morning, about Sun-rise,
four Families going to a Fort with Horses loaded, the Indians
Way-laid them, and killed and captivated 21, whose Names were
Lloyd, and his Family, Clonper, Jones, Thomas, &c. This
Morning, about Two o’Clock, I was informed that about Sun-
set Yesterday, six Families were cut off near the Narrow Passage.
Two Companies of Men are gone after the Enemy, to re-take
the Captives, if possible, of which there are as yet no Accounts."
...