Fenno-Hoffman Family Papers

Genealogy

Ephraim Fenno, leather-dresser and ale house keeper of Boston, descendant of John Fenno
b. 1629, who came from Lancashire, England, to Milton, Massachusetts, in 1660.
Married Mary Chapman.

• Maria Fenno m. Mr. Durant
  • Maria b. Mar 1789
• Samuel Fenno (d. 2 Oct. 1797), left widow with children:
  • Samuel, at Darby
  • Harry, at Trenton
  • Thomas, at sea
  • Ruth (d. 27 Sept. 1797)
  • Julius (b. 1794?)
  • Dau? (b. Sept. 1796?)
  • Child (b. after Sept. 1797)
• John Fenno (12 Aug. 1751-14 Sept. 1798), d. at Philadelphia of yellow fever
  Married 8 May 1777 Mary Curtis of Roxbury, Mass., (19 Sept. 1755-4 Sept. 1798) died from complications of childbirth. Her nickname was Polly.
  • John Ward "Jack" Fenno (26 March 1778-6 March 1802) b. in Boston.
  • Charles Fenno (4 Sept. 1779-8 Nov. 1780), b. in Boston .
  • Maria Fenno (17 March 1781-13 July 1823). Married Josiah Ogden Hoffman 7 August 1802. See Hoffman family chart for descendants.
  • Harriet Fenno (18 Nov. 1782-1 June 1808), b in N.Y. m. 27 Dec. 1800 John Rodman who d. after 1824, and had daughter:
    • Anne Eliza Rodman, who lived alone with her father in Florida in 1822, and was afterwards Mrs. Brown.
  • Charles J. Fenno (31 July 1784-12 October 1807). Unmarried; Midshipman in British Navy serving on ship Bellerephon.
  • George Fenno (28 Jan. 1786-18 April 1829), d. Upton, N.Y., the last survivor of the Fenno family. Married Elizabeth.
    • John
    • Nancy
    • Euphemia (b. 1814)
    • Mary
    • Upton (b. 1819)
  • Mary Elizabeth Fenno (2 Sept. 1787-1820s). Married 2 Oct. 1811 Gulian Crommelin Verplanck (1786-1870).
    • William J. ?
    • Samuel ?
  • Caroline Fenno (16 June 1789-12 Nov. 1789).
  • Caroline Fenno (27 March 1791-1 May 1805).
  • Anna Fenno (27 March 1793-30 March 1793).
  • James Bowdoin Fenno (26 August 1794-1820s).
  • Edward Fenno (2 Sept. 1796-6 Nov. 1823), d. of yellow fever at New Orleans. Unmarried.
  • Daughter (2 Sept. 1798-ca.16 Sept. 1798).

Hoffman Family

Genealogy

• Josiah Ogden Hoffman (14 April 1766-24 Jan. 1837) b. Newark, N.J., d. New York City. Married 1st Mary Colden and 2nd Maria Fenno (1781-1823), dau. of John Fenno and Mary Curtis, 7 August 1802.

  Children by first marriage to Mary Colden

  • Alice Anna Hoffman (b. 1790). Married 1809 Charles Jenkins Nicholas.
    • Matilda (b. 1810). M. S. S. Whitman, lived at Leavenworth, Kan.
      • Colden
      • Julia
      • Others?
    • Emma. Married R. L. Molocey and lived at Janesville, Wisconsin.
  • Sarah Matilda Hoffman (8 Nov. 1791-25 April 1809). She was engaged to marry poet Washington Irving but died before the wedding.
  • Ogden Hoffman (13 Oct. 1794-1 May 1856). Married 1st 27 Dec. 1819, Emily Burrall and 2nd Nov. 1838, Virginia E. Southard (d. 1886) dau. of Samuel L. Southard, acting Vice President under John Tyler.
    • Charles Burrall Hoffman (b. 1821)
    • Ogden Hoffman Jr. (b. 1823). Became Federal District judge in California. Lived in San Francisco, 1882.
      • "Tip" Married Sally and had children: Southard (b. 1867), May, Alice, Jack, and one other son.
    • Samuel Hoffman (b. 1839)
    • Mary Colden Hoffman (b. 1840), living in London, 1899.
    • Virginia Southard Hoffman (b. 1842), living in London, 1899.
  • Mary Colden Hoffman (15 June 1796-7 Sept. 1818). Married ca. 1810 Philip Rhinelander. Two children.
  • Martha Hoffman

    Children by second marriage to Maria Fenno

  • Infant (b & d 1804/5)
  • Charles Fenno Hoffman (7 Feb. 1806-7 June 1884) b. New York, d. Harrisburg, Pa. Unmarried.
  • Edward Hoffman (30 Sept. 1807-31 July 1808)
  • George Edward Hoffman (2 Dec. 1808-1884). Married 12 Feb. 1846 Phebe White (b. 1823).
    • John W. Hoffman m. Ella Lowley, m. 2nd Florence K. McCay
      • Dorothy Hoffman
      • Josiah Ogden Hoffman
    • Edward Fenno Hoffman m. Elizabeth McCall. Still living 1930 in Philadelphia.
      • Edward Fenno Hoffman
      • hebe White Hoffman
    • Josiah Ogden Hoffman m. Helen S. Lewis
      • George E. Hoffman
      • John L. Hoffman
      • Helen S. Hoffman
      • Charles Fenno Hoffman
  • Julia Hoffman (1810-1861). Unmarried.
  • Laura Maria Hoffman (bapt. 8 Oct. 1815-summer 1816).
• Mary Gillon Hoffman (1773-1807) m. James Seton (1770-ca.1832) whose brother married Elizabeth, later "Mother Seton."
• Martin Hoffman (16 Oct. 1763-30 Jan. 1828). Married 1st Beulah Murray and 2nd Mary Frances Seton.
• Nicholas Hoffman.

Ogden Family

Genealogy

• John (1638-1702) m. Elizabeth Plum
• David (1639-1692) Twin
• Jonathan (1639-1732) Twin
• Joseph (1642-1690) m. Sarah Whitehead
• Benjamin (1654-1722) m. Hannah Woodruff
• Mary m. John Woodruff