Re: Daniel Hoff 1816
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In reply to:
Daniel Hoff 1816
6/17/98
AMOS HOFF (1775-1855 was proven to have been the father of “our” POWELL HOFF (#3) (1801 VA- 1870 IA).Our very able and resourceful HUFF cousin, LARRY HUFF, is a consummate genealogical researcher, and has helped us greatly to lift the veil on our common HOFF/HUFF Dutch Family history, including the previously unknown lineage up-stream of POWELL HOFF and on back to VA and NJ, and before that to NY, where the first Dutch Hoff arrived from the Netherlands in 1649, and settled in present-day Queens (Then called New Town).Cousin Larry paper-proved and documented that the father of AMOS HOFF was a POWELL HOFF (#2)( for whom “our” POWELL (#2), his grandson, was a name-sake.That POWELL (#2) moved from Fairfax Co. VA, to York Co, SC, and died there in about 1815.The parents of that POWELL HOFF (#2) (& wife, PRUDENCE SUTTON) was another JOHN HOFF (for whom our “JOHN H. HOFF”, his grandson, was doubtlessly a “name-sake”.That JOHN HOFF’s wife’s name unknown), who came from Hunterdon Co., NJ and moved to Northern VA (Prince William County, VA, near to present-day Manassas, VA.
I believe that this JOHN HOFF (1720 NJ – 1797 VA) had two other sons, and they were MOORE HOFF and the Rev. DANIEL HOFF (1747-1802-05).I believe that JOHN HOFF died in about 1797, and was buried on the farm of his son, MOORE HOFF, where the Rev. Daniel Hoff, first wife, LAURA TITUS was also likely buried.This farm was located on the SE corner of the present-day Manassas Regional Airport.Before him, the father of this JOHN HOFF (1720-~1797) was yet another POWELL HOFF (#1)(wife,Rachel Styles).His father was Derrick Paulus Hoff (who chose the Hoff surname in 1687, while in NY).DERRICK HOFF left NY and emigrated to Lawrenceville (then called Maidenhead), NJ in about 1695), and was one of the communities first residents (many of whom were Dutch, who disliked the English, who took over New York in about 1688).His is likely buried there in the present day Presbyterian Church (former Dutch Reform) founded in 1695, in an unmarked grave in the churchy yard.I learned that he contributed money, along with some 35 others to clear the title to the church property and found the church.This man’s children all seemed to move around far western NJ, principally in and around Hunterdon Co.Then, the late 1700s, a number of these Hoffs left NJ and went to Northern VA.Our line of Hoffs family left VA when “our” POWELL (#3) (born in Fairfax in !801, in about 1820,when he was about age 20, he left Fairfax, VA, and moved to Washington Co., OH, where he met, courted and married Martha Brewster there in Marietta in 1824, and began their family.In about 1830, his father, AMOS HOFF, sold his possessions in VA and also moved to Ohio to be with (or near) to his son, POWELL (#3).AMOSapparently followed his son, POWELL, to nearby Chesterhill, OH,in late 1830 (immediately after our JOHN H. HOFF was born in Washington Co., in mid 1830).They all moved yet again in ~1840, and then on to farm in Richmond, in far NW Peoria County, IL.A decade later, they moved on yet again to Des Moines and Dallas County, IA in ~1855, where AMOS HOFF, then age 80 and a widower, died.He was buried on the homestead property purchased from the U S Government by his son, POWELL HOFF (#3), just west of the city of Grimes, Dallas Co., IA.We have been looking for the burial place for the wife of AMOS HOFF, believed to have been named PRUDENCE POWELL HOFF.Virtually nothing is known about her.I believe that she likely died in Peoria County, most probably in the City of Peoria, in what ever might then have passed for a hospital, and was buried in a burial yard next to it in ~1850-52 (which was later desecrated, and all headstones were removed in 1887).Her death left AMOS a widower, and he thereafter appears to have become a “charge” of his industrious and able son, POWELL, who took him, with the rest of the family and furniture, by oxcart with all livestock to Des Moines.
So, that is a quick oversight and narrative on the earlier Hoff Family history, which has been a serious hobby interest of mine the past 15 years.
If you simply GOOGLE virtually ANY of these names, you will find a great deal of biographical data on each of them.Also, if you go to Genealogy.com, and go to the MESSAGE BOARDS link, citing Hoff Family, you should find a bunch of postings I have made as I came across various discoveries.If you need a password to www.MyFamily,comand link to the Hoff dedicated web site, Contact JoEllen Britain, whose E/Mail address is noted above. She is the web-mistress of the site, and can give you free access.I posted my FTM family tree therein, along with a lot of family photos.I’ve enclosed a photo of me and my new wife, HARRIET ROSS.We were married on 10 Jan 2012 (a year ago) in a civil ceremony in Chicago.
More later.Cheers, /S/ CUZ JOHN