Historic Families of Kentucky by Thomas Marshall Green, Cincinnati, 
1889, reprinted Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. 1959. pp. 26-27. 
[Jessamine county].

CHRISMANS.  When Joist Hite, the adventurous and intelligent German, 
made the first ssettlement in the valley of Virginia in what is now the 
county of Frederick, his sons-in-law, Bowman and Chrisman, settled near 
him, on the Opequan, and soon thereafter the Scotch-Irish began to rear 
around them their habitations. Their "meeting house," a substantial 
stone building surrounded by oak trees, and about three miles from 
Winchester, stood on the road leading to Staunton.  The names of Bowman 
and Chrisman are of German origin.  Both became famous in the Indian 
wars.  The brave Captain John Bowman, who married Grizel Greenlee, and 
fell at Monsour's Mills, was a descendant of Hite.  The Chrismans also 
spread themselves through the valley and into North Carolina.  One of 
them, also a descendant of Hite, married a daughter of Joseph McDowell, 
Sr., of Quaker Meadows, a sister of General Charles, who married the 
widow of Captain John Bowman, and of Colonel Joseph, of the Quaker 
Meadows; the Hites, Bowmans, Chrismans, and the North Carolina 
McDowells, had been neighbors in Frederick county.  This Chrisman, and 
the sister of the McDowell's of the Quaker Meadows, had a number of 
children.  Two of them, Hugh and Joseph Chrisman, Sr., came to Jessamine 
county, Kentucky, where yet live many of their descendants, who have 
extensively intermarried back among their McDowell kindred, as will be 
seen in its proper connection. 

Hite Chrisman Bowman Greenlee McDowell
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Germany Frederick-VA NC

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