 Jost Hite – grandfather of Major Isaac Hite, Jr – was a German immigrant to the Shenandoah Valley.In 1732, Jost and his partner Robert McKay, along with 16 other families, journeyed via the Valley Pike into the northern Valley to settle on acquired through two land grants.One of Jost's sons – Isaac Hite, Sr – purchased in 1748, and another in 1770, just southwest of Middletown.