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John Hoffman Sr.

Birth
Germany
Death
1780 (aged 75–76)
North Carolina, USA
Burial
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Memorial ID
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B - Plätz, Bad Kissingen, Bayern,
D - Great Alamance Creek, Orange County, North Carolina, USA
Immigration
Landed in Philadelphia on Sept. 24 1751 (on the ship Neptune) with his wife Elizabeth, five sons and one daughter. The families gathered in Berks County Pa. but John soon made his way to Shenandoah Co. Virginia to join his brother George who had come over in 1749. The following year the brothers settled near Great Alamance Creek in North Carolina. John bought several parcels of land in the area and built a grist mill.
He Was living in Bladen Co. during the Revolutionary war. He was an old man then but he participated in several skirmishes of the war.
His children were John Jr, Christian, Daniel, Peter, Jacob and Barbara.
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Data is from "The Hoffmans of North Carolina / Max Ellis Hoffman." published 1938
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005761022
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B - Plätz, Bad Kissingen, Bayern,
D - Great Alamance Creek, Orange County, North Carolina, USA
Immigration
Landed in Philadelphia on Sept. 24 1751 (on the ship Neptune) with his wife Elizabeth, five sons and one daughter. The families gathered in Berks County Pa. but John soon made his way to Shenandoah Co. Virginia to join his brother George who had come over in 1749. The following year the brothers settled near Great Alamance Creek in North Carolina. John bought several parcels of land in the area and built a grist mill.
He Was living in Bladen Co. during the Revolutionary war. He was an old man then but he participated in several skirmishes of the war.
His children were John Jr, Christian, Daniel, Peter, Jacob and Barbara.
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Data is from "The Hoffmans of North Carolina / Max Ellis Hoffman." published 1938
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005761022
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