Johannes Hans Hoffert

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Born 1719 or 1734

JOHANNES HOFFERT was born Bet. 1700 - 1730 in Palatine area, Germany, and died Bet. 1788 - 1790 in Cumry Twp, Berks Co, PA. He married ELISABETH. She was born Unknown, and died Aft. 1790.

Notes for JOHANNES HOFFERT:

A typed transcript of a hand-written translation of the original hand-written German-language will)

of Hans HOFFERT aka JOHANNES HOFFERT

Cumry (sic) Township in Berks Co in Pennsylvania March 25, 1788.

I Hans HOFFERT find myself weak and sick though yet by good understanding as long as God pleases (sic) God be thanks. I have Concluded to make my last Will and Testament on Manner following.

Firstly, my Will is and I order that all my just debts shall be paid out of my estate, further is my Will and I order that my two sons Ulrich and Henry HOFFERT shall not have the land, shall have therefore in Money, Hans HOFFERT and Isaac HOFFERT shall have all my land for a sum of two hundred pounds forever to them and their heirs, and this reservation that they can do and perform after my death that my beloved wife Elisabeth shall have her widow feet? as long as she lives and shall give to her yearly twelve bushels of wheat and six bushels of rye and three bushels of Indian corn and three bushels of buckwheat and fifty pounds of pork and fifty pounds of beef and must haul her a cow in fother as good as their cattle and must cut her firewood by the house as much as she wants and must haul her grain in the mills and also fetch it home further she shall fifteen pounds of flax cleaned and five pound wool and one pair of shoes and one pair sol'd and mended, further she shall have fifteen shillings of money yearly, she may keep four hens, a right to make dried apples and to take apples as many as she wants for herself. My son Jacob HOFFERT has his share in money in full and further has nothing more to inherit of my estate; further my daughter shall have one cow and one bed one pewter basin and two plates and two spoons, one iron pot, and a pan a shimmer and one large iron ladle, and spinning wheel a large tub and a bucket and a kittle for to wash and a little cupboard; further I order that the two sons shall have my whole estate moveable and immovable forever and their heirs, further shall the brothers to wit Hans HOFFERT and Isaac HOFFERT pay to Ulrich HOFFERT and Henry HOFFERT after their father's death twenty-five pounds till it is all paid whereof Ulrich shall have the firsts, then Henry HOFFERT shall have the other thereafter my daughter also her twenty-five pounds, and then it begins again by Ulrich HOFFERT till each one has its fifty pounds of these three children Ulrich and Henry HOFFERT and Susanna HOFFERT which money must be gold or silver as it is lawful in the Province of Pennsylvania. It is my last will and testament that my two sons, to wit, Hans HOFFERT and Isaac HOFFERT may not owe immediately after my death but that shall have one year time such is my last will and testament which was done by witnesses--

Hans HOFFERT

Witnes ses: Michael Schlauch and Peter Zimmerman

Additional Notes:

All of JOHANNES and Elizabeth Hoffert's children changed their last name to HUFFER to make it sound make English. There have been various different spellings of the children on Census Records.

HOFFERT, HOFFARD, HUFFER, HUFFERT, HUFFARD, HUFFERD, HUFFORD are some of various different spellings that have been found in the Census Records and some marriage records.

October 27, 1738, JOHANNES (Hans) HOFFERT came to America on St Andrew ship from the Palatine Area, Germany.

Hans HOFFERT died in 1790 Cumry Twp, Berks Co, PA, Will probated 1790

Wife name was Elisabeth.

Children:

Isaac went to Ohio.

Henry went to Indiana.

John (Hans) stayed in Pennsylvania

Jacob went to Virginia.

Ulrich went to Indiana [JKM NOTE: Below, this same doc. Says the Ulrich died in Berks Co, PA., his son Isaac is later found in Walnut Twp., Pickaway Co., OH]

Susanna stayed in Pennsylvania

More About JOHANNES HOFFERT:

Emigration: Oct 27, 1738, St Andrew ship

Lived: Cumry twp, Berks Co, PA

Children of JOHANNES HOFFERT and ELISABETH are:

1.ULRICH HUFFER, b. 1745, Pennsylvania; m. Maria Elizabeth Krist/Reist; d. Oct 04, 1823, Berks Co, PA. [Son of Ulrich Huffer and Maria Reist was Isaac Huffer, b. about 1785-1795, m. to Julianna Schmidt/Julia Ann Smith, d. before 1850 in Pickaway Co., OH, buried on the farm of Florence Peters. ]

2. JOHN (Hans HOFFERT) HUFFER, b. Bet. 1754 - 1757, Pennsylvania; m. Elizabeth Weid/White; d. Unknown, Pennsylvania.

3. JACOB HUFFER I, b. Nov 06, 1755, Lancaster Co, PA, tombstone has birthdate as 1756; m. Anna Schoenauer Dec 08, 1782 Schwartzwald Reformed Church, Exeter Twp, Berks Co, PA; d. 1848, Augusta Co, Virginia.

4. HENRY (HENRICH HOFFERT) HUFFER, b. May 13, 1759, Cumru Twp, Berks, Pennsylvania; m. Catherine Elizabeth Steuben; d. 1789, Berks Co, Pennsylvania.

5. ISAAC HOFFERT, b. 1761, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, baptised 20 dec 1761; m. Maria Magdalena Hiland; d. Jan 03, 1845, Fairfield Co, Ohio. NOT THE GRAUMLICH ISAAC HUFFER, THIS IS AN UNCLE.

6. SUSANNA HOFFERT, b. Feb 05, 1765, Cumru Twp, Berks, Pennsylvania; m. Joseph Weidman Nov 17, 1788 Cumru Twp, Berks, PA; d. Unknown, Pennsylvania