Johannes Hofmann

His name is not Johann or Johann Henrich, it's Johannes, no middle name. His parents are Johannes Hofmann born in 1663 in Eisern and baptised on 19 Jul 1663 and married Gertrud Reichmann 24 May 1690 in Siegen. He was not a Palatinate farmer, he was a Fuhrmann, a traveling dealer in iron products. Gertrud Reichmann was born in 1666 in Siegen.

Johannes Hofmann, Sr., died in 1737 in Eisern and his wife, Gertrud, died in 1728 in Eisern, both of them buried there. They had 9 children, one of them, Johannes Hofmann, was born in 1692, he immigrated to Virginia in 1713 as a bachelor later marrying Agnes Katharina Haeger on 7 Nov 1721 in Virginia. Agnes Katharina Haeger is the daughter of Rev. Johann Henrich/Henry Haeger and his wife, Anna Catharina Friesenhagen. Johannes/John and Agnes had 5 children, Agnes dying in childbirth, along with the baby, 9 Feb 1729.

John married as his second wife, Maria Sabina Charlotta Barbara Volck, a member of the 1717/Second Germanna Colony. She was born in 1710 in Wagenbach, Hüffenhardt, Baden (now Baden-Württemberg, Germany) and immigrated to Virginia with her mother, Anna Barbara (Majer) Utz, and her step father, Johann Georg Utz. Maria Sabina's father, Johann Michael Volck, had died on 7 Apr 1714 in Wagenbach. Maria Sabina and John Hofman had 12 children, all very well documented in the Germanna Foundation Database as well as the following publications:

http://germannafamily.org/getperson.php?personID=I056720&tree=tree1

Dr. BC Holtzclaw, Germanna Record No. 5: Ancestry and Descendants of the Nassau Siegen Immigrants to Virginis 1714-1750, (Culpeper, VA: The Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in Virginia, Inc., 1964),339-361.

Germanna Record #3: John Hoffman, 1714 Germanna Colonist and His Descendants, B.C. Holtzclaw, (Culpeper, VA: Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in Virginia, April 1963, reprinted July 1989), 7.

John Hoffman: Records from his Bible, 1663-1813, (Beyond Germanna, 11, no. 2, (March 1999): 613), 613.

John Hoffman of Germanna and Some of His Descendants, John W. Wayland, (The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 63, no. 4, (October 1955): 454-460), 455.

Hoffman, John W. Wayland from the John Hoffman Bible, (Annual Journal for the Society of Germanna Colonies, 1, no. 4 &5, (June 1953)), 40.

Barbara Price, Trustee/Genealogist
The Germanna Foundation

Biography

Johann Hoffman was born and baptized on March 8, 1692 in Siegen, Siegen-Wittgenstein, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Siegen, Nassau Siegen, Westphalia, Germany.

His parents were Johannes Hofmann and Gertrude Hofman. He was a Palatinate farmer.

Johann married Maria Sabina Charlotta Barbara Hofmann on July 13, 1729 in Culpeper, Culpeper County, Virginia, United States. Together they had the following children:

1. John Henry Hoffman, Infant;
2. Nicholas Hoffman;
3. Michael Hoffman;
4. Paul Balthazar 'Baltz' Hoffman;
5. William Huffman, Sr.;
6. Mary 'Maria' Hanback;
7. Johann 'Jacob' Hoffman;
8. Jarg (George) Hoffman;
9. Frederick Hoffman;
10. Henry Hoffman;
11. Tilman Hoffman;
12. Elizabeth Back;
13. Margaret Hoffman. .

Johann married Anna Katharina Hofmann on November 7, 1721 in Fauquier County, Virginia, United States. Together they had the following children:

1. Agnes Hofmann;
2. Anna Catharine Spilman;
3. John Hoffman;
4. Unnamed Son Hoffman, stillborn.

He died on July 3, 1772 in Culpeper, Culpeper County, Virginia, United States and was buried in July 1772.

• Residence: Virginia, United States - 1714
• Residence: Orange, North Carolina, United States - 1752
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He was born in Siegen, Germany, although he and his family lived in Eisern, Germany. His parents were Johannes Hoffman (born 7-27-1663, and died 3-16-1731) and Gertrud Reichmann (died 9-25-1778), the daughter of John Reichman.

He sailed to America in 1714. He settled in Germanna, Virginia.

He married Anna Catherine Haeger, on November 7, 1721. She was the daughter of Rev. Henry Haeger and Anna Katherine Friesenhagen.

John and Anna had five children: Agnes (born Nov. 25, 1722); John Henry (born Jan. 18, 1724); Anna Catherine (born June 7, 1725); John (born May 6, 1727); and an unnamed son stillborn (Feb. 9, 1729). John's wife Anna died during the birth of their stillborn son.

John got remarried to Maria Sabina Folg, on July 13, 1729. She was the daughter of John Michael Folg.

As soon as he married her, they left Germanna and moved to some land about 30 miles to the west, along the Robinson River. Several other men and their families went with them. This land was first in Culpeper County, Virginia, but in 1792, it became Madison County, Virginia.

John and Maria had twelve children: Nicholas (born Feb. 4, 1731); Michael (born March 26, 1732); Jacob (born Dec. 3, 1733); Baltz, also known as Paul (born May 13, 1735); William (born Dec. 8, 1737); George (born April 10, 1739); Frederick (born Feb. 7, 1740); Henry (born May 25, 1742); Tilman (born June 1, 1744); Elizabeth (born July 13, 1746); Margaret (born Nov. 27, 1748); and Mary (born Aug. 4, 1751).

John kept a family Bible, in which he listed the names and dates of birth of his two wives, and the names and dates of birth of all of his children. His Bible was actually just four pieces of blue-tinted paper, that were 5"x8" in size. It has been transcribed and is shown on this memorial.

He wrote the name of his daughter Elizabeth into the Bible, with her date of birth, which was July 13, 1746. Her name and her date of birth were also written into the old Bach Family Bible, owned by Johann Heinrich Bach (John Henry Back), who was a close neighbor of John Hoffman. Johann Heinrich Bach's son Henry married John Hoffman's daughter Elizabeth, and so he wrote her name and date of birth into his Bach Family Bible, during the Christmas holiday of 1787. This proves that she married into his family, and not the family of Hermann Bach from Freudenberg, Germany.  (Elizabeth's sister Margaret married Henry's brother John. And Henry and John's brother Joseph married Elizabeth Hoffman-Maggard, who had been adopted by the Maggard family after she was orphaned in 1770.)

John Hoffman owned 3,525 acres of land. He wrote his will on Dec. 30, 1762. He left each of his four daughters 150 acres, and he left each of his sons land as well. Nine of them got 292 acres, and one of them (George) got 297 acres with a mill (probably built by Johann Heinrich Bach).

He probably died in the summer of 1772, as his will was probated on August 17, 1772.

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