Jacob Chrisman, Sr.

Evidence needed to support as son of Johannes Peter Chrisman & Anna Getraud

Jacob Chrisman

• Birth: about Sep 12 1706 Strasbourg, Alsace-Lorraine, Germany
• Death: Apr 27 1778 Winchester, Frederick County Virginia
• Parents: unknown
• Wife: Magdalena Hite 1713 - 1771

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Unknown parents

According to this page, his parents are unknown: http://chrisman.org/immigrants/jacob-hite.htm

Family

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Chrisman-1

Magdalena Hite (1713 - 1771): daughter of Johan Hite and Anna Maria Merckle, married Jacob Chrisman (1706 - 1778), (parents unknown), about 1729 in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.

The 11 children of Jacob Chrisman and Magdalena Hite were:

• (i) Jacob Chrisman Jr., born 1729, Chester County, Pennsylvania; died April 28, 1809 in Lost River, Hardy County, West Virginia; married Madalin McDonald in 1753; born 1731, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; died February 4, 1809 in Virginia.
• (ii) Abraham Chrisman, born October 15, 1733, Frederick, Virginia; died October 29, 1798, Montgomery County, Virginia; married Keziah (Stephan) Stephens (daughter of Johannes Peter Stephan and Maria Christina) in 1758, Augusta County, Virginia; born 1737, Augusta County, Virginia; died May 5, 1814, Montgomery County, Virginia.
• (iii) Sarah Chrisman, born September 23, 1734, Orange County, Virginia; died 1784; married (1) Thomas Sperry, born about 1734; married (2) John Barley, born about 1734.
• (iv) Anna Maria Chrisman, born September 29, 1735, Orange County, Virginia; married Peter Stephens Jr. (son of Johannes Peter Stephan and Maria Christina) in 1753, Frederick, Virginia; born September 29, 1735 in Stephensburg, Frederick, Virginia; died 1812, Montgomery County, Virginia.
• (v) Isaac "Frederick" Chrisman, born November 9, 1736, Frederick, Virginia; died July 19, 1776, Rye Cove, Lee, Virginia; married Jane Scott 1761 in Hardy County, Virginia; born 1740, died 1825.
• (vi) Johannes "John" Chrisman, born March 9, 1739, Frederick, Virginia; died May 22, 1772, Augusta County, Virginia; married Mary Hinton in 1763; died after 1787.
• (vii) Joseph Chrisman, born 1740, Frederick, Virginia; died 1762, Frederick, Virginia; married Elizabeth McDowell.
• (viii) Rebecca Chrisman, born 1741, Frederick, Virginia; died March 1826, Russell, Virginia; married James Scott, 1762 in Russell, Virginia; born 1736 in Virginia, died 1823, Russell, Virginia.
• (ix) George Chrisman, born 1745, Frederick, Virginia; died August 27, 1816, Rockingham County, Virginia; married Hannah McDowell 1762 (daughter of Joseph McDowell and Margaret O'Neil); born 1744, died January 24, 1817, Rockingham County, Virginia.
• (x) Magdalena Chrisman, born 1747, Frederick, Virginia; married William Isaac Goudy 1769 in Virginia.
• (xi) Henry Chrisman, born March 9, 1749 Frederick, Virginia; died 1778; married (1) Elizabeth McDowell, born 1754 in Virginia; married (2) Jane Earl Williams July 17, 1770; born 1751.

In 1751 Jacob and Magdalena built a stone house near Chrisman Spring in the Upper Shenandoah Valley.

Biography

Jacob Chrisman c1706

This BIO was copied from Lonnie Chrisman's website.

To date, nothing regarding Jacob's origins prior to 1732 has been proven. There are conflicting claims that have been published, many of which are clearly erroneous. His parents, date of birth, birthplace, date of immigration, etc., all remain unproven. There is good reason to believe that he may have been a son of the widow Elizabeth Christman who immigrated to the Hudson valley with two young children in 1710.

In 1709, several thousand German families fled their homeland for England. In 1710, several hundred of these families joined a work party sent to the New York Hudson valley. This group included Jacob Chrisman's future father-in-law, Jost Hite, along with many of the families who moved with Jost Hite to the Winchester, Virginia area in 1732, in the first settlement west of the blue ridge. Also enumerated in censuses of this group were two Christman families: the family of a Hans (Johannas) Christman c1668, and of a widow Elizabeth Christman. We can conclude that Hans was not the father of the Jacob Chrisman who married Magdalena Hite, leaving Elizabeth as the remaining possibility. A census of the work party in 1710 showed Elizabeth to have two children born between 1700 and 1702, one of which may have been a young Jacob Chrisman.

Elizabeth could have been the widow of Bernhard Christmann of Sandhaussen (Heidelberg). In the parish that served Sandhausen and Leimen, the marriage of Bernhard Christmann (b. c1682 Sandhausen, son of Georg) to Elisabetha Meyer of Leimen (dau. of Hans Meyer) is recorded on 7 Feb 1702. The baptisms of Margaretha, 1702, Margaretha 1704, Anna Katharina 1706 and Anna Katharina 1708 are recorded there, along with a note "this family emigrated to America". Obviously the first Margaretha and first Anna Katharina would have died young, leaving two young children, consistent with the two children in the care of the widow Christman in 1710. In the Heimatbuch of Sandhausen, there is record of correspondence in 1743 between the widow of Bernhard Christman, living in NY, USA, with Hans Bernhard Hochhauser in Sandhausen for an inhertance that Mr. Hochhauser has occupied.

Sources:

Henry Z. Jones Jr. (1985), The Palantine Families of New York 1710, especially vol. 1, p. 123-5.

Glen Christman, A Chrisman/Christman Genealogy: The Descendants of Jacob Chrisman I, pages iii-vii.

Lonnie Chrisman

Member of the first settlement west of the Blue Ridge Mountains, led by Jost Hite in 1732. Settled in Opequon six miles south of Winchester, Frederick Co., Virginia.

Please see the Magdalena Hite Chrisman Find a Grave Memorial Page to see a list of Jacob and Magdalena's children.

• Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Jan 10 2017, 20:39:51 UTC
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