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This question-and-answer book contains 400 reminders of what is known and what is sometimes forgotten or misunderstood about a city that was founded more than 400 years ago. Not a traditional history book, this group of questions is presented in an apparently random order, and the answers occasionally meander off topic, as if part of a casual conversation.
John Christian Hoffman was born in about 1705 in Germany. His parents were Hans Georg Hoffman and Catherina Margaret. He married and had seven children. They emigrated in 1751and settled first in Virginia and then moved on to Orange County, North Carolina. He died in 1780. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in North Carolina, Tennessee and Texas.
Thomas Bulla/Bullock (ca. 1700-1779?) immigrated from County Armagh, Ireland to Chester County, Pennsylvania. In 1742, he married Ann Williams, a widow with one son. Descendants of their four children scattered from Pennsylvania, to Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina, Indiana and elsewhere.
Conrad Yoder migrated to North Carolina from Pennsylvania, ca. 1755-1762. He married (1) Christina Cline in 1763, (2) Miss Seitz, (3) Catherine Huffman. He died in 1790. Many descendants lived in Lincoln and Catawba counties.
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Robert Blackburn (d.ca. 1794), an immigrant (possibly from Scotland), was in Catawba Valley, Tryon County, North Carolina during or before 1769. Descendants and relatives lived in North Carolina, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Arkansas, California and elsewhere.