Hans Jerg Baumann (1699 - 1768)

Born 10 Feb 1699 in Eppingen, Heilbronn, Kurfürstentum Pfalz, Heiliges Römisches Reich

Ancestors

Husband of Anna Maria (Heydt) Bowman — married 1731 in Germantown, Berks, Pennsylvania

Descendants

Died 2 Mar 1768 at age 69 in Stephensburg, Frederick, Virginia

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Biography

Hans Jerg "George" Baumann (Bowman) was born at Eppingen in the Palatinate and baptized, February 10, 1699. He was member of the Skippack Reformed Church in 1730. He met and married Anna Maria, daughter of Jost Heydt (Hite) about 1731 went with her father and other family members to the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia the following year and settled on Opequon Creek, south of present day Winchester. Other members of the Skippack Reformed church included Peter Stephens and Christian Neuschwanger, who also joined the Hite group that settled on Opequon Creek. Hans Jerg and Anna Maria had thirteen children in 25 years. He died on March 2, 1768, in Frederick, Virginia, at the age of 68, and was buried in the Bowman Graveyard in Strasburg, Virginia. He always signed his name, "Hans Jerg Baumann."

George accumulated a 1000 acre estate, Mount Pleasant, and build Fort Bowman upon it and later a large mansion house.

Birth

• George (Hans George Baumann) Bowman was born on February 10, 1699, to Anna Maria Adams and Cornelius Jorisse Bowman.

Arrival

• He arrived in Philadelphia in Sept 1727 aboard the ship "William and Sarah" ,

Marriage

• George married Maria (Mary) Elizabrth Hite in 1731.

Death

• George died on March 2, 1768, in Frederick, Virginia, when he was 69 years old.

Burial

• George is buried in the Bowman Graveyard in Strasburg, Shenandoah County, Virginia.^[1]

Children

• George and Mary had the following issue:^[2]
  1. George Bowman was born April 27, 1732.
  2. Jacob Bowman was born Jan. 2, 1733.
  3. Mary Bowman (Mrs. Stephens) was born Nov. 19, 1735.
  4. Elizabeth Bowman (Mrs. Ruddell) was born Mar. 18, 1737;
  5. John Bowman (Col. of Ky. troops) was born Dec. 10, 1738.
  6. Sarah Bowman (Mrs. Wright) was born Feb. 9, 1741.
  7. Regina Bowman (Mrs. Dierly) was born Jan. 13, 1743.
  8. Rebecca Bowman (Mrs. Geo. Brinker) was born Mar. 25, 1745.
  9. George Bowman, 2d (first dead) was born Mar. 24, 1747.
  10. Abram Bowman (Col. 8th Va. troops) was born Oct. 16, 1749.
  11. Joseph Bowman (Major) was born March 8, 1752.
  12. Catherine Bowman was born Nov. 16, 1754.
  13. Isaac Bowman was born Apl. 24, 1757.

George Bowman (b. 10 Feb 1700, d. 2 Mar 1768) Hans Georg Bauman, born at Eppingen was son of Jacob and Barbara Bauman. (See Image #12) George Bowman, early settler in the Shenandoah Valley was NOT the son of Cornelius Bowman.

George Bowman (1700–1768) was an 18th-century American pioneer, landowner and a prominent Indian fighter in the early history of the Virginia Colony. He, along with his father-in-law Jost Hite, was one of the first to explore and settle Shenandoah Valley. His estate, on which Fort Bowman was founded, was one of the earliest homes to be built in Shenandoah Valley and is two miles north of present-day Strasburg, Virginia.

Four of his sons, Maj. Joseph Bowman, Capt. Isaac Bowman, Col. Abraham Bowman and Col. Johannes "John" Bowman, also became well-known frontiersmen in Kentucky during the late 1770s.[1] His great-grandson, John Bryan Bowman founded Kentucky University and Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky.[2][3][4]

George Bowman aka Baughman was born February 10, 1699 as Hans Jerg Baumann in Eppingen, Kurpfalz, Germany (see map of Kurpfalz region in Germany); died 02 Mar 1768 at Ft Bowman/Bowman Estate on Cedar Creek (near Strasburg, Virginia). He married Mary Hite (daughter of Jost Hite and Anna Maria Merckle) 1731 in Berks, Pennsylvania;

His colonial estate, which he called Fort Bowman, is one of the earliest built in the Shenandoah Valley. Four of his sons, Col. Abraham Bowman, Maj. Joseph Bowman, Col. Johannes "John" Bowman and Capt. Isaac Bowman – an officer under General George Rodgers Clark until captured by the Chickasaw Indians – were well-known frontiersmen in Kentucky. Later, his great-grandson John Bryan Bowman founded Kentucky University and the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky.

George Bowman arrived in Colonial America via Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1727. The list of Palatine passengers imported on the ship William and Sarah who arrived at Philadelphia on 18 September 1727 includes the name Hans Jerrick Bowman. He was not accompanied by any family members. His name does not appear on the shorter list of male passengers who later made a declaration of allegiance to the government of Pennsylvania.

He married a daughter of Jost Hite Mary Hite in 1731, and joined the first wagon train to cross the Appalachian Mountains into the Shenandoah Valley. For nearly a year, George and Mary Bowman migrated with about 16 other families led by his father-in-law Jost Hite, working closely with his brothers-in-law Paul Froman (who married the 2nd oldest daughter, Elizabeth Hite in 1731), and Jacob Chrisman (who had married the 3rd oldest daughter, Magdalena Hite in 1729).

German emigrant Jost Hite came to the Shenandoah Valley in 1732 with his family and about 16 other German and Scots-Irish families from Pennsylvania. They settled along the Opequon Creek watershed, creating one of the early permanent European settlements. Soon after their arrival, a number of other communities developed regionally, including Fredericktown and Winchester. George and Mary Bowman settled on 1,000 acres of land along Cedar Creek (near present-day Strasburg), Frederick County, Virginia, where they raised thirteen children:

(i) John George Bowman, born April 27, 1732 on Cedar Creek, Frederick, Virginia, died 1779 in Frederick, Virginia.

(ii) Capt. (John) Jacob Bowman, Sr., born December 2, 1733 on Cedar Creek, Frederick, Virginia; died June 20, 1781 in South Carolina; married Sarah Stephens 1766 in Frederick County, Virginia (daughter of Lawrence Stephens and Elizabeth Mercer (Jones) Stephens), born March 25, 1745 in Frederick County, Virginia; died May 7, 1839 in Garrard County, Kentucky. (7 children)

(iii) Emma Maria Bowman, born November 9 1735 on Cedar Creek, Frederick, Virginia; died January 1820 in Frederick, Virginia; married Lawrence "Lorentz" Stephens 1752 in Frederick, Virginia; born 1720 in Frankenthal, Bayern; died October 18, 1776 in Frederick, Virginia.

(iv) Elisabetha Bowman, born March 18, 1737 on Cedar Creek, Frederick, Virginia; died about 1815 in Bourbon, Kentucky.

(v) Col. Johannes "John" Bowman, born December 17, 1738 on Cedar Creek, Orange County, Virginia; died May 4, 1784 at Bowman Station, Burgin, Lincoln/Mercer County, Kentucky; married Elizabeth McClung, born 1731, died 1784.

(vi) Sarah Bowman, born February 9, 1741 on Cedar Creek, Orange County, Virginia; died September 16, 1817 in Laurens, Laurens County, South Carolina; married George Wright 1758 in Laurens, Laurens County, South Carolina, born 1730 in Virginia, died May 14, 1774 in Laurens, Laurens County, South Carolina.

(vii) Regina Ann Bowman, born January 13, 1743 on Cedar Creek, Orange County, Virginia; died May 1828 in Montgomery County, Virginia.

(viii) Rebecca Bowman, born March 25, 1745 on Cedar Creek, Orange County, Virginia; died January 26, 1831 in Frederick, Virginia.

(ix) George Bowman Jr., born March 24, 1747 on Cedar Creek, Orange County, Virginia; died September 1779 in Gallia County, Ohio.

(x) Col. Abraham Bowman, born October 16, 1749 on Cedar Creek, Orange County, Virginia; died November 9, 1837 in Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky; married Sarah Henry February 13, 1782 in Lincoln (now Mercer) County, Kentucky; born September 8, 1757 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania; died 1845 in Fayette, Kentucky.

(xi) Maj. Joseph Bowman, born March 8, 1752 on Cedar Creek, Orange County, Virginia; died August 14, 1779 in Vincennes, Knox County, Indiana.

(xii) Catherine Bowman, born November 16, 1754 at Ft Bowman Estate, Frederick County, Virginia; died 1826.

(xiii) Capt. Isaac Bowman, born April 24, 1757, at Ft Bowman Estate, Frederick County, Virginia; died September 9, 1826 in Strasburg, Frederick, Virginia; married (1) Elizabeth Gatewood 1782 to 1790; married (2) Mary Chinn 1792 to 1826. (16 children)

Bowman received 145-acres of land from Jost Hite on Linville Creek in Frederick County. In 1746 and 1749 he then bought over 1,000 acres on Linville Creek, on which he constructed and operated a grist mill, later known as "Bowman's Mill"; as of 1972 the mill was still in operation near present-day Bartonsville, Virginia. In 1752-1753, while still living on Cedar Creek, Bowman built a colonial stone house on his 1,000-acre estate, known as Fort Bowman on the National Register of historic places (see Fort Bowman Estate in Shenandoah Valley).

Following his death in 1768, his sons inherited the estate. Part of the estate was sold by John Bowman in July of that year. Isaac Bowman, the youngest of the Bowman sons, was born in 1757 and grew up at Fort Bowman. He inherited part of the family estate, including the Bowman house. Upon serving in 1778-79 as a quartermaster under his brother, Major Joseph Bowman in the Illinois Militia, he was awarded 2,156 acres for his military contributions.

Unfortunately, in November 1779 Isaac was assigned to guard a "batteau" of seven or eight men and one family traveling from Kaskaskia to the falls of the Ohio, which was attacked by Chickasaw Indians. At the time it was assumed that Bowman had been killed by Indians. However, Isaac had survived the attack and was taken prisoner by his captors. After several years he escaped from Indian country by way of Cuba, returning to Shenandoah in 1782. He settled down at Fort Bowman Estate at age 25, a prosperous landowner and much wiser man. He married twice [Elizabeth Gatewood (m. 1782 – 1790), Mary Chinn (m. 1792 – 1826)] and had 16 children.

In 1812-1813 he constructed a large brick home, which he called 'Mount Pleasant', on the Bowman Estate where he lived with his family until his death September 9, 1826 at age 79. The Bowman home, one of the first built in Shenandoah, still exists and remains one of the oldest historical buildings in Virginia. Isaac and his first and second wife are buried in the family graveyard West of the house.

Sources

• Kirchenbuch (Parish Register), Reformierte Kirche Eppingen, Taufen (Baptisms), 1664-1714, p. 188. Family History Library microfilm #1189093. (See image #12, posted here.
• Strassburger, Ralph Beaver; edited by William John Hinke. Pennsylvania German Pioneers: A Publication of the Original Lists of Arrivals in the Port of Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808. Pennsylvania German Society, Norristown, PA, 1934. Pages 7-10.

1. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/115772942/hans-george-bowman: accessed 9 January 2024), memorial page for Hans George Bowman (10 Feb 1699–2 Mar 1768), Find a Grave Memorial ID 115772942, citing Bowman Graveyard, Strasburg, Shenandoah County, Virginia, USA; Maintained by Toby (contributor 47708070).
2. ↑ Wayland John W., THE BOWMANS: A Pioneering Family in Virginia, Kentucky and the Northwest Territory, page 2, 3. The McClure Company, Inc.; Staunton, Va; 1943. https://archive.org/details/bowmanspioneerin00wayl/page/n5/mode/2up

Also see secondary sources:

• Mackenzie, George Norbury, and Nelson Osgood Rhoades, editors. Colonial Families of the United States of America: in Which is Given the History, Genealogy and Armorial Bearings of Colonial Families Who Settled in the American Colonies From the Time of the Settlement of Jamestown, 13th May, 1607, to the Battle of Lexington, 19th April, 1775. 7 volumes. 1912. Reprinted, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1966, 1995. Vol IV, page 185-186.
• Cartmell, T.K. Shenandoah Valley Pioneers and Their Descendants, page 261. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2002.
• Pecquet du Bellet, Louise, Some prominent Virginia families, page 336-337. J. P. Bell Company (Inc.), Publishers; Lynchburg, Virginia. 1907. https://archive.org/details/someprominentvir04pecq
• Wayland John W., THE BOWMANS: A Pioneering Family in Virginia, Kentucky and the Northwest Territory, The McClure Company, Inc.; Staunton, Va; 1943. https://archive.org/details/bowmanspioneerin00wayl/page/n5/mode/2up
• Cartmell, Thomas Kemp, Shenandoah valley pioneers and their descendants : a history of Frederick County, Virginia (illustrated) from its formation in 1738 to 1908,page 276, Publisher unknown, Winchester, VA; 1909. https://archive.org/details/shenandoahvalle00cartgoog/page/n8/mode/1up
• Carrie Hunter, Legends of the Skyline Drive and the Great Valley of Virginia. Richmond: Dietz Press, 1979.
• Mackenzie, George Norbury, LL.B. Colonial Families of the United States of America in which is given the History, Genealogy and Armorial Bearings od Colonial Families who Settled in the American Colonies from the time of the Settlement of Jamestown, 13th May, 1607, to the Battle of Lexington, 19th April, 1775. Volume VI The Seaforth Press; Baltimore; 1927. https://ia800202.us.archive.org/21/items/colonialfamilie00rhoagoog/colonialfamilie00rhoagoog.pdf
• Wayland, John W. The Bowmans: A Pioneering Family in Virginia, Kentucky and the Northwest Territory. Staunton, Virginia: McClure Co., 1943.
• Wayland, John W. A History of Shenandoah County, Virginia. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1980. (pg. 588)
• Hofstra, Warren R. The Planting of New Virginia: Settlement and Landscape in the Shenandoah. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. (pg. 98-99)
• Wikipedia: George Bowman (pioneer), Wikipedia. Accessed July 16, 2015.
• Sources cited in Wikipedia:

Hayden, William. Conquest of the Country Northwest of the River Ohio, 1778-1783. Indianapolis: Bowen-Merrill Company, 1896. (pg. 116)

Wayland, John W. A History of Shenandoah County, Virginia. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1980. p. 588.

Johnson, E. Polk. A History of Kentucky and Kentuckians: The Leaders and Representative Men in Commerce, Industry and Modern Activities, Vol II. Chicago and New York: Lewis Publishing Co., 1912. (pg. 1132)

Bowman, Charles W. Bowman Genealogy: Fragmentary Annals of a Branch of the Bowman Family. Washington, D.C.: Law Reporter Printing Company, 1912. (pg. 93-94)

du Bellet, Louise Pecquet. Some Prominent Virginia Families. Lynchburg, Virginia: J.P. Bell Company, 1907. (pg. 336-337)

Raine, James Watt. The Land of Saddle-bags: A Study of the Mountain People of Appalachia. New York: Council for Women for Home Missions, 1924. (pg. 41)

Fischer, David Hackett and James C. Kelly. Bound Away: Virginia and the Westward Movement. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2000. (pg. 113)

Lewis, Virgil A. History of West Virginia: In Two Parts. Philadelphia: Hubbard Brothers, 1889. (pg. 59-60)

Hofstra, Warren R. The Planting of New Virginia: Settlement and Landscape in the Shenandoah. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. (pg. 98-99)

Wayland, John W. A History of Shenandoah County, Virginia. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1980. (pg. 95)

Keister, Elmo Earl. Strasburg, Virginia, and the Keister Family. Strasburg, Virginia: Shenandoah Publishing House, Inc., 1972. (pg. 398)

Sharp, Lois. Ancestors of Mom & Dad Sharp: Sharp & Dennis. Utica, Kentucky: McDowell Publications, 2000. (pg. 263)

Kegley, F.B. Kegley's Virginia Frontier: The Beginning of the Southwest, the Roanoke of Colonial Days, 1740-1783. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2003. (pg. 533)

Wayland, John W. A History of Shenandoah County, Virginia. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1980. (pg. 449)