Display Patriot - P-327950 - Philip/Phillip H HOFFMAN

Philip/Phillip H HOFFMAN

SAR Patriot #: P-327950

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State of Service: PA      Qualifying Service: Private / Patriotic Service
DAR #: A056425

Birth: 20 Nov 1736 / Northampton / PA
Death: 27 Sep 1823 Center Twp / Columbia / PA

Qualifying Service Description:
  1. DAR - Future Applicants Must Prove Correct Service - Service is for Lancaster Co; Inconsistant with Residence in Northampton Co  -  Jan 2006
  2. NSSAR #84088 states:
    • Paid 1781 Supply Tax at Upper Mount Bethel Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania
    • Private 4th C;ass Capt William Bresbin's 1st Co, 1st Batt, Lancaster Co PA Militia also Corporal 4th Co, 3rg Batt Lancaster Co Militia

Additional References:
  1. Pennsylvania Archives, Series 5, Volume 7, pg 262, 269, 281, 613
  2. 1781 Supply Tax Upper Mount Bethel Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania. Tax and Exoneration Lists, 1762–1794. Series No. 4.61 - Records of the Office of the Comptroller General, RG-4. Microfilm Roll: 331. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, PA

Spouse: Mercy XX;
Children: Elizabeth; Dorcas;
Members Who Share This Ancestor
Date Approved Society ACN SAR Member Info Lineage via Child View Application Detail
1958-11-25 PA Unassigned Russell John Freas (84088) Dorcas   
1995-07-12 AL 214826 Richard Alexander Kemp II (135200) John   
2004-07-22 AL 18166 Matthew Mark Alexander Kemp (140182) John   
2020-02-14 PA 89784 Thomas Allen Whitefield Jr. (213257) Elizabeth   
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/ Columbia / PA / USA
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Author: Michael D. C. Merryman

Philip H. Hoffman, Sr. was born 20 November 1736 at Northampton County, Pennsylvania.  He married Mercy about 1765, likely at Northampton County.  By this union were born Dorcas, Susanna, Elizabeth, John, William, Philip, Martin and others.  While living at Upper Mount Bethel Township, Northampton County, Philip rendered Patriotic Service by paying the 1781 Supply Tax.  (Previously cited service by the NSSAR and NSDAR in the Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Militia was found to belong to a different person of the same name.)  Philip is last seen in the 1800 U.S. Census at Upper Mount Bethel Township, and next found in Mifflin Township, Columbia County, Pennsylvania, in the 1820 U.S. Census, and in the 1821 Pennsylvania Septennial Census at Brier Creek Township.  Philip died 27 September 1823 at Columbia County, Pennsylvania.  Orphans Court Proceedings at O.C. Docket 10, Page 46 name his children as: John, Philip, Martin, Samuel, Jacob, Michael dec’d, Mary Dyer, Dorcas widow of John Freas, Elizabeth wife of James Kinney, Susannah wife of Abraham Depew and Mercy wife of Eleazer Brothwell.  Mercy, wife of Philip, Sr., died 29 August 1829.  Philip and Mercy were laid to rest at the Stone Methodist Church Cemetery of Columbia County.

 


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