Bittmann/Pitman History
Sources:
- Daniel Bly, personal correspondence and his book From the Rhine to the Shenandoah: Eighteenth Century Swiss & German Pioneer Families in the Central Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and Their European Origins, Volume 1, 1993. NOTE: Primary sources of information on the German Bittmann families were the Lutheran parish register of Framersheim and a few earlier tax lists.
- From the Rhine to the Shenandoah: Eighteenth Century Swiss & German Pioneer Families in the Central Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and Their European Origins, Volume 1 by Daniel Bly, 1993
- Jim Liptrap, fellow descendant -- 5th cousin verified through FamilyTreeDNA through Anna Gertraut (Schworm) Bittman's grandson Emanuel Pitman and his wife Esther (Funkhouser) Pitman. His lineage: Anna Gertraut Schworm (1700-1758) m. 1724 Andreas Bittman (1701-1763), parents of Philip Pitman (1741-1820) m. 1770 Susanna Crabill (1745 - 1821), parents of Emanuel Pitman (1772-1850) m. 1796 Esther Funkhouser (1777-1853), parents of Rachel Pitman (1797-1874) m. 1818 Asa Rosenbarger (1796-1875), parents of Leah Rosenbarger (1820-1884) m. 1849 Jacob Stonecypher, parents of Ephraim Stonecypher (1853-1934) m. 1875 Martha Highfill, parents of Bertha Helen Stonecypher (1876-1950) m. 1904 John Liptrap, parents of Virgil Raymond Liptrap (1907-1977) m. 1949 Frances Mary Tate Matthews, parents of James Matthews Liptrap (1951)
- Ralph Beaver Strassburger, Pennsylvania German Pioneers (Pennsylvania German Society. Norristown, PA. 1934.), LDS Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT, pg. 402. "The Foreigners whose names are underwritten, imported in the Ship Edinburgh, James Russel, Master, from Rotterdam, but last from Portsmouth in England, did this day take the usual Oaths to the Government. By list 163. 360 whole Freights, from the Palatinate." Among the listed passengers is "Nicklas ( X ) Biedman", the ( X ) signifying that he signed by a mark. Others listed included Philipp Peter Becker, Johann Jacob Becker. Available online: Pennsylvania German Pioneers, Volume I, 1727-1775, by Ralph Beaver Strassburger, LI.D., edited by William John Hinke, Ph.D., D.D., of the Pennsylvania-German Society
- John W. Wayland. A History of Shenandoah County, Virginia (1927 Shenandoah Publishing House, Inc.; Reprinted 2006 Genealogical Publishing Co), 228, Nicholas Pittman found in list of Samuel Porter that "covered a section that probably extended from the North Mountain to the Massanutten, including Mt. Olive, Tom's Brook, and the adjacent portion of the river."
- Crabill Family Genealogy Forum (http://genforum.genealogy.com/crabill, Genealogy.com), Forum posting by Daniel Bly: http://genforum.genealogy.com/crabill/messages/16.html
- Goodnight, Scott H. and Gertrude H., The Ancestry of the Nicholas Pitman Family of Virginia; Snapp, Will, and Williams Lines. (1951. Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine, Vol. 32, pp 139-145, 234-245, 313-324), Library of Virginia, Indicates that Philip was baptized at St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Strasburg, Virginia on March 25, 1804.
- Correspondence with Jane Spreier (DNA match on FTDNA): Her 5x great grandparents Johann & Susanna (Crabill) Bittman are my (James "Jamie" Arthur Johnson's) 5x great grandparents, making us 6th cousins. Her both 6x and 7x great grandparents Andreas & Anna (Schworm) Bittman are my 6x great grandparents making us 7th cousins and her also my 7th cousin once removed.
- Ancestry: Johann Philipp Bittman in the U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s
- Others as listed below
| Ancestry through parents Hans Bernhard Schworm and Elisabetha Gervinus ↑ | | | |
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| Friedrich Bittmann | They were at Framersheim in the 1660s.
Daniel T. Rogers(b. 1943) - all my relatives echoes my tree from Friedrich and Anna to me. |
Anna Catherina (maiden name unknown) |
Johann Georg Schworm | Anna (maiden name unknown) |
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| b. 1627 or 1628 d. 16 February 1708 in Framersheim, Alzey-Worms, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany |
m. ? | b. d. |
b. ca. 1642 d. before |
m. They lived in Niedermoschel in the 1660s and 1670s. |
still living in 1676 | ||
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| Hans Heinrich Bittmann was an only child. | Hans Heinrich Bittmann a mason by trade in Framersheim, Germany (in the Rhine Valley) |
Hans Heinrich Bittmann and Anna Dorothea Bittmann had 9 children:
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Anna Dorothea (maiden name unknown) |
Johann Valentin Schworm (Lutheran by faith) |
Anna Catherina Bugler, a widow | ||
| b. 1670 in Framersheim,
Alzey-Worms, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
d. 5 August 1729 in Framersheim, Alzey-Worms, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany |
m. | b. 1674 d. 25 October 1740 |
b. 1668, Niedermoschel, Germany d. 8 February 1714, Framersheim, Germany |
m. 16 April 1697, Framersheim, Germany | b. d. 22 January 1734 |
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| ↑ Christian Crabill (Grabill, Craibill, Creybill) |
Land grant information featuring Christian Crabill from Funk Pioneers of Frederick County, Virginia Daniel T. Rogers(b. 1943) - all my relatives echoes my tree from Christian Crabill to me. |
Andreas Bittmann a mason by trade from Framersheim, Germany |
Andreas Bittmann and Anna Gertraut Schworm Bittmann had 10 children:
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Anna Gertraut Schworm | |||
| b. ca. 1718 in the German Rhineland d. after 1761 in Frederick County, VA |
b. 10 July 1701 in Framersheim, Alzey-Worms, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany d. 26 May 1763 in Framersheim, Alzey-Worms, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany |
m. 22 February 1724 | b. 10 October 1700 in Framersheim, Alzey-Worms, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany d. 17 November 1758 in Framersheim, Alzey-Worms, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany |
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| Susannah Crabill | Susanna Crabill, daughter of Christian, married Johann Philipp Bittman (Philip Pitman) and lived on the old Baker homestead along North Mountain about 2 miles north west of Strasburg, VA.She died 1 Feb. 1821 and is buried on the homestead,with Philip,who died 1 May 1820.They had four children: Emanuel, David, Jonathan and Abraham. Susanna had two brothers Abraham (never married) and Jonas. She also had a sister Rachel who never married. SOURCE: Crabill Family Genealogy Forum (http://genforum.genealogy.com/crabill, Genealogy.com), Forum posting by Daniel Bly: http://genforum.genealogy.com/crabill/messages/16.html. |
Johann Phillip (Philip) Bittmann (Pitman) |
Johann Philipp Bittmann was among three of Friedrich Bittmann's great grandsons who emigrated to the U.S. and settled in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia in the late 1700s. The othere two were as follows:
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| b. 1745 d. 1 February 1821 |
m. ca. 1770 in Shenandoah Co., VA Both buried in old Baker homestead along North Mtn. about 2 miles northwest of Strasburg, VA. |
b. 16 November 1741 in Framersheim, Alzey-Worms, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. He came to Philadelphia on Prince of Wales 5 November 1764. Refer to "Johann Philipp Bittman" on pp. 700-701 of Pennsylvania German Pioneers, Volume I, 1727-1775. This is further supported by Ancestry: Johann Philipp Bittman in the U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. d. 11 May 1820 |
DNA matches with whom I potentially share common ancestors Johann Philipp Pitman and Susannah Crabill Pitman: Dennis Hickerson, Ricky Holsinger, Cecilia Ford and Shyley Waterman. |
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| | | ↓ descendants through son Emmanuel Pitman via his marriage to Ester (Esther) Funkhouser |
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Framersheim, GERMANY in the Rhine Valley
Friedrich Anna
Bittmann + Catherina
+-------+-------------+
|b. 1627| Framersheim,|
|or 1628| GERMANY |
|d. 16 | |
|Feb. | |
|1708 | |
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Hans Anna Valentin Anna
Heinrich + Dorothea Schworm + Catherina
Bittmann | (Lutheran |
+--------+-------+ by faith)|
|A mason |b. 1674| |
|by trade|d. 25 | |
|b. 1670 |October| |
|d.5 Aug |1740 | |
|1729 Framersheim| |
| Germany | |
+--------+-------+ |
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Christian Andreas Anna Gertraut
Crabill Bittmann + Schworm
(Grabill) +----------+-----+-----+
| |A mason |m. 22|b. 10|
| |by trade |Feb. |Oct. |
| |b. 10 July|1724 |1700 |
| |1701 | |d. 17|
| |d. 26 | |Nov. |
| |May 1763 | |1758 |
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| |Framersheim, GERMANY |
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Susannah Johann Phillip (Philip)
Crabill + Bittmann Susannah and Johann were married about 1770.
(b. 1745 (Pitman)
d. 1 Feb 1821) +------------+ Both Susannah and Johann are buried in
|b 16Nov.1741| old Baker homestead along North Mtn. about
|Framersheim,| 2 miles northwest of Strasburg, VA.
|Alzey-Worms,|
|Rheinland-Pfalz,
|GERMANY. |
|Came to |
|Philadelphia|
|on "Prince |
|of Wales" |
|5 Nov. 1764.|
|m. about1770|
|Shen Co. VA |
|d. 1 or 11 |
|May 1820 |
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