Research Notes:
Notes for Jost Hoffman married to Maria Catharine and for Jost Hoffman married to Mary Margaret Meiser and for Joseph Hoffman, of Bethel, married to Marie Cathrina. It is unclear whether the notes refer to one, two, or three different men.
1738 Hendrick Hoofman, Johan Hend. Hoffman, and Joost Hooffman immigrated on the ship St. Andrew on October 27. [1] [2]
1743 Joest Hoffman warranted 150 acres of land in Bethel Twp near Blue Mts, with warrant dated March 26, 1743 [3] and was surveyed (no date) at 187½ acres in Lanc.r County. [4] Adjoining land was owned by Andrew Groff now Deitrick Six [5], vacant land [6], David Markill [7], Jacob Baker [8], George Bashore [9] The land was patented by Joseph Hofmann on June 11, 1743. [10]
1746 On April 28, Jos. Hoffman and wife Marie Catrina, of Heidelberg Twp, Lancaster County, sold land in Bethel, Lancaster County, to George Miller. Witnessed by Andrew Saltsberger and wife Maria Catrina. [11] Joseph Hoffman had patented the land on July 20, 1743 [12]
1747 George Miller warranted 166 acres in Bethel Twp, Berks County, Pennsylvania. The land was surveyed on July 2. [13] The land was adjacent to land of Detrick Six. [14] [15]
1748 On March 8, John George Hoffman, son of Jost and Marie Catharine Hoffman, was baptized with sponsors George and Anna Margaret Schwengel, at the Millbach Reformed church in Lebanon County. [16]
1749 On December 2, Catharine Elizabeth, daughter of Jost and Maria Catharine Hoffmann, was baptized at Millbach Church, with sponsors Henry and Elizabeth Hoffmann. [17] [18]
Joseph (Jost) Hoffman was named as a member of the Reformed Church in Schaefferstown, Pennsylvania. [19]
1750 On June 12, Yost Hoffman warranted 200 acres in Schaefferstown. [20]
1750 On December 1, Joseph Denahersof/Dennsherzhis/Dennshers, of Heidelberg Borough, sold lot 78 to Jost Hofman, of Heidelberg Twp, Lancaster County. [21]
1753 On March 20, Michael Meiser, bachelor of Heidelberg Twp, sold land to Jost Hoffman, yeoman. The land had been given to Michael Meiser by his father, Michael Miser, deceased. [22]
1753 Yost Hoffman was named on the tax list for Heidelberg Twp, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. [23] [24]
1753-1790 Jost Hoffman was on the building committee for St Paul's church in Millback (Schaefferstown Charge). [25]
1756 Jost Hoffman was named as guardian to children of Henry Hoffman. [26]
1757 On June 17, a daughter was baptized to parents Jost and Maria Catharine Hoffman with sponsors Elizabeth and Michel Muller, at the Millbach Reformed church in Lebanon County. [27]
1762 On April 4, John Jacob Hoffman, son of Jost and Mary Catharine Hoffman, was baptized with sponsor Jacob Wagner, at the Millbach Reformed church in Lebanon County. [28] [29]
1762 On May 11, Michael Brightman and wife Margaret sold land to Jost Hoffman, all of Heidelberg Twp. [30]
1764 Anna Maria Hoffman, daughter of Jost and Catharine Hoffman, was baptized on August 5 with sponsors Michael and Anna Maria Neff, at the Millbach Reformed church in Lebanon County. [31]
1770 Eva Christine Hoffman, born on March 29, daughter of Jost and Maria Catharine Hoffman, was baptized on April 29 with sponsors Caspar and Eva Christine Viehmann, at the Millbach Reformed church in Lebanon County. [32] [33]
1777-78 Yost Hoffman took the oath of alliegance at Schaefferstown. [34]
1779 Yost Hoffman was taxed in 1779 in Heidelberg Twp, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. [35]
1794 Jost Hoffman died on August 21, 1794 and was buried at Millbach Cemetery, Millbach, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. [36]
1795 George Hoffman and Adam Feeman were executors for the will of Yost Hoffman, of Dauphin County. [37]
before 1800 Yost Hoffman was listed as an early member of the Reformed Church at Schaefferstown, Pennsylvania. [38]
[1] Ralph B. Strassburger, William J. Hinke, ed., Pennsylvania German Pioneers, Vol. 1 (1934, Pennsylvania German Society), 237-240, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[2] I. Daniel Rupp, A Collection of Upwards of Thirty Thousand Names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French and other Immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1776, 2nd ed. (1875), 126, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[3] Pennsylvania Land Warrant, Lancaster County, H-321, page 92, [PALandWarrantLinks].
[4] Pennsylvania Archives Land Office Survey, C76-167, [PASurveyBookLinks].
[5] Pennsylvania Archives Land Office Survey, A55-197, [PASurveyBookLinks].
[6] Pennsylvania Archives Land Office Survey, C151-100, [PASurveyBookLinks].
[7] Pennsylvania Archives Land Office Survey, C121-162, [PASurveyBookLinks].
[8] Pennsylvania Archives Land Office Survey, A76-31, [PASurveyBookLinks].
[9] Pennsylvania Archives Land Office Survey, A76-55, [PASurveyBookLinks].
[10] Pennsylvania Land Patent, A11-168, [PAPatentBookLinks].
[11] Recorder of Deeds, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Deed Book C, 10-11, [10], [11], [FHLCatalog].
[12] Pennsylvania Land Patent, A11-188, [PAPatentBookLinks].
[13] Pennsylvania Archives Land Office Survey, C122-274, [PASurveyBookLinks].
[14] Pennsylvania Archives Land Office Survey, A55-197, [PASurveyBookLinks].
[15] Pennsylvania Archives Land Office Survey, C108-205, [PASurveyBookLinks].
[16] Millbach Reformed Congregation, 1747-1875, Lebanon County, [AncestryRecords].
[17] Millbach Reformed Congregation, 1747-1875, Lebanon County, [AncestryRecords].
[18] Steve E. Troutman, The Trautman/Troutman family history, Vol. 1 (1988), 104, stating, "Millbach was in Lancaster County until 1785 when it became Dauphin and after 1813 there was still another division and the area became Lebanon Co., Pa.," and citing information from D. Curtis Hester from the records of the Millbach Church, [FHLBook], [GoogleBooks].
[19] Abram S. Brendle, "The early history of Schaefferstown, PA.," Historical Papers and Addresses of the Lebanon County Historical Society, 1 (1902), 9-16, at 13, right column, [HathiTrust].
[20] A. S. Brendle, A brief history of Schaefferstown (York, PA, 1901), 197, [AncestryImage].
[21] Recorder of Deeds, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Deed Book F, 7-9, [7], [8], [9], [FHLCatalog].
[22] Recorder of Deeds, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Deed Book D, 17-18, [17], [18], [FHLCatalog].
[23] Israel Daniel Rupp, Von Gail Hamilton, History of the Counties of Berks and Lebanon (1844), 343, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[24] Genweb Lebanon 1753, tax list, [URL].
[25] Thos. S. Stein, Centennial history of Lebanon Classis of the Reformed Church in the U. S., 280, [URL].
[26] Sophie Selden Rogers, "Genealogical Gleanings from Orphans court Records of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 24 (1965), 15-38, 118-139, 193-223, at 210.
[27] Millbach Reformed Congregation, 1747-1875, Lebanon County, [AncestryRecords].
[28] Millbach Reformed Congregation, 1747-1875, Lebanon County, [AncestryRecords].
[29] Pennsylvania Church Records, Adams, Berks and Lancaster Counties, 1729-1881, [AncestryRecord].
[30] Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Deed K-42 to 43, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[31] Millbach Reformed Congregation, 1747-1875, Lebanon County, [AncestryRecords].
[32] Millbach Reformed Congregation, 1747-1875, Lebanon County, [AncestryRecords].
[33] Pennsylvania Church Records, Adams, Berks and Lancaster Counties, 1729-1881, [AncestryRecord].
[34] A. S. Brendle, A brief history of Schaefferstown (York, PA, 1901), 45, [AncestryImage].
[35] Pennsylvania, Tax and Exoneration, 1768-1801, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[36] Find A Grave Memorial 106656390, [FindAGrave].
[37] Steve E. Troutman, The Trautman/Troutman family history, Vol. 1 (1988), 104, [FHLBook], [GoogleBooks].
[38] A. S. Brendle, A brief history of Schaefferstown (York, PA, 1901), 16, [AncestryImage].