Anna Maria Baumann

Her parents were Jost Heydt-Hite and Anna Maria Merckle of Virginia

Jost Hite did not name any daughters in his will but the wife of Georg Bowman is assumed to be a daughter of Jost Hite (Heydt), based on the earliest known historical account of the settling of the Shenandoah Valley by Samuel Kercheval, who referred to George Bowman as Jost Hite's son-in-law.[1] The wife of George Bowman appears as Mary in English records but as Maria, in German records when they had several children baptized in Virginia between 1735 and 1738 and also sponsored several baptisms.[2] When their last child, Isaac, was baptized by Rev. Conrad Steiner of Maryland on a circuit to Virginia in the spring of 1757, they are called "Hans Georg Bauman und sein Frau, Anna Maria."[3]

She is not Maria Elisabetha, born in 1708, daughter of Jost Hite, who would have been called Elizabeth and probably died before 1711, when Hite named another daughter, Elizabeth. Anna Maria was probably born soon after the family moved from New York to Pennsylvania. Mary was still living when George Bowman wrote his will in November, 1764.[4]

Mary and George were the parents of 15 children:

1. George/27 Apr 1732
2. John "Jacob"/2 Jan 1733 m. Grace Greenlee
3. Emma Maria/9 Nov 1735
4. Mary/9 Nov 1735
5. Elizabeth/18 Mar 1737 (Mrs Isaac Ruddell)
6. Johannes/10 Dec 1738
7. Sarah/9 Feb 1741
8. Abraham/16 Oct 1742
9. Regina Ann/13 Jan 1743
10. Rebecca/25 Mar 1745
11. George/24 Mar 1747
12. Abram/16 Oct 1749
13. Joseph/8 Mar 1752
14. Catherine/16 Nov 1754
15. Isaac/24 Apr 1757

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Louise Pecquet du Bellet, Some Prominent Virginia Families (1907), pp. 336-7

THE HITE FAMILY IN AMERICA

I. Mary Hite, the eldest child of Yost Hite, born in Germany, d. in Virginia. Married (in Pennsylvania, about 1731) George Bowman and accompanied her father when he entered the Shenandoah Valley. They were given a homestead not far from her father, in what is now Shenandoah County, on Cedar Creek. Here, some years later, they built a substantial brick house, which is still standing;. Their eldest child was the first white child bom in the Valley. Several of their sons were soldiers of rank and importance, one was with Gen'l S. I\. Clarke in the Illinois campaign, and another was Colonel in the 8th Va. German Regiment in the Revolution . Some of his other sons became prominent in civil life in Virginia and Kentucky, where most of them removed.

Issue :

1. John George Bowman. b). April 27, 1732; d. young.

2. John Jacob Bowman, b. Dec. 2, 1733.

3. Emma Maria Bowman, b. Nov. 9, 1735.

4. Elizabeth Bowman, b. March 18, 1737.

5. Johannes Bo\nnan, b. Dec. 19, 1738.

6. Sarah Bowman, b. Feb 9, 1741.

7. Regina Bowman, b). Jan. 13, 1743.

8. Rebecca Bowman, b. March 23, 1745.

9. George Bowman, b. March 24, 1747.

10. Abraham Bowman, b). Oct. 16, 1749.

11. Joseph Bowman, b. March 8, 1752.

12. Catherine Bowman, b. Nov. 17, 1754.

13. Isaac Bowman, b. April 24, 1757.

• http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hite-430
• Mary Elizabeth Heydt-Hite Bowman Find A Grave Memorial# 59723406 Note: She was buried on the Bowman estate on Cedar Creek, near Strasberg, VA
• http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=59723406 No grave marker
• Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Jan 21 2020, 2:26:05 UTC

Note: She was buried on the Bowman estate on Cedar Creek, near Strasberg, VA

• Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: May 13 2016, 19:06:15 UTC
• Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Jan 21 2020, 2:32:35 UTC

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• Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Jan 3 2022, 21:52:58 UTC