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- - From The Hoffmans of North Carolina by Max Ellis Hoffman (?1938) via Ancestry -
[pg. 43] "GEORGE HOFFMAN, pioneer and son of Hans Georg and Priscilla Hoffman, was born in the Palatinate province of Germany in 1713. According to Pennsylvania Pioneer Records he married Catherina Rein, another Palatine. In the spring of 1749 they gathered their brood of four children and began the hazardous journey to America, the land of freedom. They spent five weeks on a river boat going down the Rhine River to Rotterdam, Holland. After waiting there for a period of twelve days, on August 12 they boarded the British Ship Jacob, and sailed for the new World. The ship dropped anchor at the English Port Cowes where it was detained for eight days, as all emigrants were there required to renounce their allegiance to their native country, swear allegiance to Great Britain, and make all other preparations for the final voyage across the Atlantic Ocean,
On October 1, the ship arrived at the Port of Philadelphia, and all emigrants were removed from the ship and taken to the Courthouse in Philadelphia, where they were required to swear allegiance to the Province of Pennsylvania.
GEORGE HOFFMAN and his family made their way to Berks County, Pennsylvania, some forty-five miles distant, where they joined their German cousins who had preceeded them. In the following spring, in 1750, they joined the German migration southward. They stopped in Shenandoah County, Virginia, where they stayed with other German relatives until the spring of 1752. While there, in the late fall of 1751, GEORGE's two brothers, JOHN and CASPER HOFFMAN, arrived with their families from Germany.
In the spring of 1752 CASPER HOFFMAN and his family went back to Berks County, Pennsylvania, where they settled, while GEORGE and JOHN once more joined the German migration southward into North Carolina. They settled in the Great Alamance section which was then Orange County, but now Alamance.
In 1765 GEORGE HOFFMAN once more gathered his family and got on the move. They followed the German, Dutch, and Scotch migration through the Yadkin River Valley and on into the Catawba River Valley. GEORGE and his family crossed the Catawba River and went some eight miles to the head-waters of Clark's Creek where they settled permanently. That location is about two miles west of the present town of Conover and was then in Mecklenburg County. Later it was in Tryon County, but the latter being dissolved in 1779, it became Lincoln County. In 1846 Lincoln County was divided, and that left the location of the farm in Catawba County.
...I am indebted to Mr. Milton L. Herman, who lives on the old Hoffman land and remembers the story of the old Hoffman family as related to him many times, when a boy, by "Aunt Savina" Hollar, widow of Daniel Hollar of that community.
According to the story of Mr. Herman and other old residents of that community, here are some of "Aunt Savina" Hollar's recollections:
'Long before the Revolutionary War an old German named George Hoffman came into the community and settled on a tract of fine forest land. With him were his wife, Katy, three grown sons and two daughters. The men cut the trees and built a log house where the old folks lived and died...'"
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1713 - 1794 (81 years)
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