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Jacob Hite Jacob Hite was one of the wealthiest men in Berkeley County, West Virginia. Hite had come to the Valley with his father in the early 1730s.〔Harry M. Ward, ''Major General Adam Stephen and the Cause of American Liberty'' (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1989), 104.〕 A prominent family, Hite had served as sheriff twice for Frederick County and also as justice of the peace for that county as well as Berkeley. His son, Thomas, was a member of the House of Burgesses. Hite is most famous for his assault on the Martinsburg county jail in April 1774 and his rivalry with Adam Stephen. ==Early life== He was the son of a highly successful Shenandoah Valley land speculator, Jost Hite, a German immigrant, and Anna Maria (née Merckle). His sister, Mary Magdalena Hite, is an ancestor to Major League Baseball pitcher Tug McGraw and country music star Tim McGraw.
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