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Note: Visit the Sheets DNA Project at: http://sites.rootsweb.com/~sheetsdna Please Note: All surname spellings in this file are standardized as "Sheets" for purposes of the Sheets DNA Project. Check the "Alias" column for actual surname spellings. Title: Hoffman Family, of Lykens Valley Author: Egle, William Henry, M.D., M.A. Publication: Notes and Queries: Historical bigraphical and Genealogical: Relating Chiefly to Interior Pennsylvania, Harrisburg 1895, Reprinted by Baltimore Genalgical Publishing Co., 1970, Compiled on Family Tree Maker CD 19 Repository: Media: Electronic Page: First and Second Series volume I, Notes & Queries XXX, pg. 211 Title: History of Dauphin Co., Pennsylvania Author: Kelker, Luther Reily Publication: New York, Chicago, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1907 Repository: Media: Book Page: pg. 305 !Data from A History of Gratz, northern Dauphin Co., PA, transcribed by Robert M Howard. (1)"the head of a large family by that name." (2) He was involved in the incident at Oakdale, near Loyalton, PA in which Willie Davis, a Delaware Indian was shot. (3) also spelled Schitz (4) 1790 Census shows 1 man and 4 women in household. [LDS CD #27 pin#773509] 1810 CENSUS--DAUPHIN CO. PA., BETHEL TWP.: LUDWIG SHITZ;JOHN HOFFMAN;JOHN HOFFMAN;JOHN HOFFMAN,JR.; ANDREW REGLE;JOHN REGLE; ALL LISTED ON SAME PAGE OF CENSUS---FROM HERIAGE QUEST, PAGE 2. Ludwig Shitz has surveyed 25 acers in Upper Paxton twp on 23 April 1785 he was the original patnetee [ref Vol. P #27 p 355/ survey is copied book C194 p 123]
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