Person:Charles Hoff (2)

North Jersey History & Genealogy Center of the Morristown and Morris Township Library, Tuttle-Hoff Papers, 1761-1942:

He followed his brother Joseph as apprentice to Lord Stirling [A.K.A. William Alexander, 1726-1783] in 1774 at Stirling's Hibernia Ironworks to learn the ironmaking trade. His apprenticeship lasted three years and three months when Joseph, who was manager from 1773, died in 1777. Charles took over as manager of Hibernia for Lord Stirling, and continued in that capacity until 1781. He actually managed Hibernia for John Jacob Faesch in the year 1780-1781, when Faesch leased the works from Lord Stirling. His other brothers, James and John, were also employed by Stirling at Hibernia. (John Hoff, after leaving Hibernia, kept a general store at Mt. Pleasant.)

Charles Hoff married Hannah Ford Tuttle [1759-1849], the daughter of Moses Tuttle and Jane Ford in 1778. They had issue: Clarissa [17880-1842], who married James Jackson [1776-1848] in 1798; Elizabeth [1783-1858]; Jane [1785-1848] who married Samuel S. Beach [1782-1851] in 1805; Joseph Tuttle [1787-1871]; Charlotte [1790-1832] who married Jacob Kinney [1789-1863]; Harriet [1792-1879]; Charles [1795-1857]; Hannah [1798-1802]; Mary Ann [1800-1872]; and Moses Tuttle [1802-1844].

After 1781, Charles Hoff Jr. moved his family to Mt. Pleasant and continued his interests in iron with his father-in-law, Moses Tuttle, and other family members. In 1795 with his brother-in-law, Jeseph DeCamp, he built Washington Forge which consisted of two fires on the west branch of Rockaway River in Rockaway Township. When Joseph DeCamp died in 1800, his wife Jane Ford Tuttle managed Joseph's interest with their son, Chillion [1793-1870]. They operated the forge until 1808, when Hoff sold his one half interest to Joseph Hurd. (Between 1813 and 1814, Jane Ford Tuttle rented the forge to John Mills Jr.) Chillion DeCamp continued operation of one forge fire with his son, James, until about 1816 when it was sold to the owners of Dover Forge, Israel Canfield and Company. Charles Hoff Jr. served as a Justice of the Peace from 1800 until 1805. He was a member of the First Presbyterian Chruch in Morristown. He died at Mt. Pleasant.

U.S. Veterans Gravesites, ca.1775-2006 at ancestry.com Name: Charles Hoff Service Info.: PVT US ARMY REVOLUTIONARY WAR Birth Date: 12 Nov 1756 Death Date: 16 Jul 1811 Cemetery: First Presbyterian Church Cemetery Cemetery Address: 35 Church St Rockaway, NJ 07866

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 North Jersey History Genealogy Center of the Morristown and Morris Township Library www.jfpl.org/HCFindingAids.

   Tuttle-Hoff Papers, 1761-1942

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. National Cemetery Administration. U.S. Veterans Gravesites, ca.1775-2019. (Online database: Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2006).