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State of Service: VA
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service / Soldier
Birth: 1735 / Culpeper / VA Death: May 1826/1827 / Culpeper / VA
Qualifying Service Description:
Soldier,Virginia Militia, Culpeper, Virginia, January 1781
Additional References:
Settle-Suttle Family, Op. Cit, pg 323 (Cites MS in Virginia State Archives - A List of Classes in Culpeper County for Jan 1781 - Tilman Hufman (sic) was No 95);
DAR Patriot Index pub by NSDAR, Washington: 1990, Part II, pg 1450
SAR RC # 55947
Spouse: (1) XX XX; (2) Margaret Williams; Children: Charles; James; Benjamin; Elizabeth;
Tillman Huffman (original spelling: Hofmann) was born in 1735 in Culpeper County, Virginia, and died there in 1837. His parents were Hans Henrich “Henry” Huffman and Anna Margarethe Huettenhen. Henry and Anna Margarethe Huffman were members of the second group of Germanna Colony immigrants, who came to America from Nassau-Siegen arriving in 1734. They settled in the Little Fork area in Culpeper County. Tillman Huffman was a farmer; his name appears on Culpeper county tax lists; and his estate was probated in 1827. The names of his first wife, the mother of his children, has been lost to history. The names of the children, mentioned in the probate of his estate were: Charles, James, Benjamin, Elizabeth, Winny, John, Samuel and Frances. Tillman Huffman’s second wife, whom he married 22 Aug 1794 was Margaret Williams, the widow of James Freeman. Tillman Huffman’s service to the cause in the War for Independence was signing the Culpeper petition and serving in the Culpeper militia. Tillman Huffman’s daughter, Elizabeth, married William Settle, the well-known maker of the Kentucky long rifle, known as the Settle rifle. William Settle was the son of George Settle,
Ref:
1) B C Holtsclaw, Ancestry and Descendants of the Nassau-Siegen Immigrants to Virginia 1714-1750, (Locust Grove, VA: The Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in Virginia, Inc, 1964), 366-375.
2) John H Gwathmey, Historical Register of Virginians in the Revolution Soldiers-Sailors- Marines 1775-1783 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co.,1979), 399.
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