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From: herb-bett <>
Subject: Matthias Bauman
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 19:24:05 -0400

MATTHIAS BAUMAN, father-in-law of Samuel HOCH, was born about 1680 in
Lambsheim near Frankenthal in the Palatinate of Germany. About 1709-1710
BAUMAN came to America with his wife, Catherine, and only child, Sarah.
They settled first in the Schoharie region along the Hudson. By 1714 they
reached Oley, PA. One of the first of the Pietist sects to appear in the
interior of PA was the Newborns, a group which was confined almost entirely
to the Oley Valley, and MATTHIAS BAUMAN was their leader. He was the first
major religious separatist. In 1723, in Oley, he prepared a tract setting
forth his views; it was entitled (in German) "A Call from God to the
Unregenerate World".........

This summary was prepared from material contributed by John Joseph STOUDT, a
great-grandson of SAMUEL HOCH and Sarah Bauman.

Betty Coller

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