Individual Details
John Hoffman
(1 Mar 1692 - 3 Jul 1772)
John Hoffman's Bible states: "This Bible is a part of my paternal inheritance sent to me from Eysern in Nassau-Siegenschon."
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From: John Blankenbaker
Wed, 25 Jun 2003
The seventeen hundred and second note in a series on the Germanna Colonies
John Huffman/Hoffman was married twice. At about the time of his second marriage he moved to the Robinson River Valley which is where his second wife was living. John kept a record of the baptisms of his children in his Bible (inherited from his father after 1731). I am going to give only the second marriage information.
"On 13 July 1729 I was married to my second wife Maria Sabina, the daughter of the deceased John Michael Folg of Wagenbach. She was born 29 March 1710." [Of course, this was written in German.]
We now know from the German church records that Maria Sabina's last name was more properly Volck which is an almost sound alike of Folg. She was baptized in the Lutheran church at Hueffenhardt which is the nearest church to the Wagenbach farm. Her father died and her mother married George Utz. So the mother of Maria Sabina was Barbara Utz, nee Majer (Maier, perhaps Moyer). George Utz and John Hoffman had adjoining land patents in the Robinson River Valley.
In almost every church denomination, anyone can baptize another person. This view came about because some churches regard baptism as essential for entry into heaven and they did not want to deprive anyone of entrance just because a priest, pastor, or minister was not available. (I know a mother who baptized her children just as soon as they were given to her.) There are certain words to be said and anyone (well, presumably a believer) can say them. Probably John Hoffman held a more formal service at which the witnesses were present and probably he actually did the baptism.
These were the sponsors of the twelve children of Maria Sabina:
1. NY, BB, MMW. This son was named Nicholas [NY is Nicholas Yager]
2. NY, BB, MMW. [BB is Balthasar Blankenbaker]
3. NY, BB, MMW. [MMW is "the mother of my wife" who is never
identified but she was Barbara Utz.]
4. NY, BB, MMW. This son was named Baltz (Balthasar).
5. NY, BB, MMW.
6. NY, BB, MMW.
7. NY, BB, MMW.(this was in 1740)
8. NY, BB and his wife. (this was in 1742)
9. NY, BB and his wife.
10. NY and Susanna his wife and Ann Margaret, the wife of BB. (this was in 1746).
11. BB and his wife and the wife of NY.
12. NY, Georgia his wife, (and) the wife of BB. (this was in 1751 when Susanna was still living).
This was published by John W. Wayland as "John Hoffman of Germanna and Some of His Descendants," in Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 63, n. 4, (1955) p. 454-460. He claimed to have seen a first copy of the original but no one knows where the original or the copy is.
Events
| Birth | 1 Mar 1692 | Siegen, Germany |  | ||
| Christen | 8 Mar 1692 | | |||
| Immigration | Apr 1714 | Germanna | |||
| Marriage | 7 Nov 1721 | Virginia - Anna Catherine Haeger | | ||
| Marriage | 13 Jul 1729 | Maria Sabina Charlotta Barbara Volck | | ||
| Death | 3 Jul 1772 | |
Families
| Spouse | Anna Catherine Haeger (1702 - 1729) |
| Child | Agnes Hoffman (1722 - ) |
| Child | John Henry Hoffman (1724 - 1724) |
| Child | Anna Catharine Hoffman (1725 - ) |
| Child | John Hoffman (1727 - 1813) |
| Child | [Son] Hoffman (1729 - 1729) |
| Spouse | Maria Sabina Charlotta Barbara Volck (1710 - ) |
| Child | Nicholas Hoffman (1731 - ) |
| Child | Michael Hoffman (1732 - ) |
| Child | Jacob Hoffman (1733 - ) |
| Child | Baltz Hoffman (1735 - ) |
| Child | Wilhelm Hoffman (1737 - ) |
| Child | George Hoffman (1739 - ) |
| Child | Frederick Hoffman (1740 - ) |
| Child | Henry Hoffman (1742 - ) |
| Child | Tilman Hoffman (1744 - ) |
| Child | Elizabeth Hoffman (1746 - ) |
| Child | Anna Margaretha Hoffman (1748 - ) |
| Child | Maria Hoffman (1751 - ) |
| Father | John Hoffman (1663 - 1731) |
| Mother | Gertrude Reichman ( - 1728) |
| Sibling | Johann Henrich "Henry" Hoffman ( - ) |
Endnotes
1. B. C. Holtzclaw, Ancestry and Descendants of the Nassau-Siegen Immigrants to Virginia 1714-1750 , Memorial Volume in Celebration of the 250th Anniversary of the Coming of the First Colony to Germanna, Virginia, in 1714..... (The Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in VA, Inc., 1964), p.8.
2. Published and edited by John Blankenbaker, Publisher and Editor, Beyond Germanna: Quarterly Newletter. (No longer published but available on CD from John Blankenbaker, P.O.Box 120, Chadds Ford, PA 19317-0120) Also Blankenbaker's Notes on the Germanna Colonies published in
3. B. C. Holtzclaw, Ancestry and Descendants of the Nassau-Siegen Immigrants to Virginia 1714-1750 , Memorial Volume in Celebration of the 250th Anniversary of the Coming of the First Colony to Germanna, Virginia, in 1714..... (The Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in VA, Inc., 1964), p.8.
4. B. C. Holtzclaw, Ancestry and Descendants of the Nassau-Siegen Immigrants to Virginia 1714-1750 , Memorial Volume in Celebration of the 250th Anniversary of the Coming of the First Colony to Germanna, Virginia, in 1714..... (The Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in VA, Inc., 1964), p.170.
5. Published and edited by John Blankenbaker, Publisher and Editor, Beyond Germanna: Quarterly Newletter. (No longer published but available on CD from John Blankenbaker, P.O.Box 120, Chadds Ford, PA 19317-0120) Also Blankenbaker's Notes on the Germanna Colonies published in
6. Published and edited by John Blankenbaker, Publisher and Editor, Beyond Germanna: Quarterly Newletter. (No longer published but available on CD from John Blankenbaker, P.O.Box 120, Chadds Ford, PA 19317-0120) Also Blankenbaker's Notes on the Germanna Colonies published in
7. Published and edited by John Blankenbaker, Publisher and Editor, Beyond Germanna: Quarterly Newletter. (No longer published but available on CD from John Blankenbaker, P.O.Box 120, Chadds Ford, PA 19317-0120) Also Blankenbaker's Notes on the Germanna Colonies published in