This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wQB.2ACE/1147 Message Board Post: These were NJ Supreme Court cases, according to an Ancestry.com database: --Hoffman, Jonas (versus) Gandy, Edward (case #) 16111 -- year not given --Hoffman, William Gandy, Edward 16143 (year) 1811 --Hoffman, Nicholas Gaston, Robert 16158 1792 --*Hand, Christopher Hoffman, Eli 16257 1824 --Hart, Ephraim Hoffman, John R. 16278 1797 --Hoffman, Nicholas Harris, Isaac 16384 -- year NG --Hewes, Samuel Hoffman, Moses 16467 1763 --*Hoffman, Eli Hand, Christopher 16520 1833 I clipped Hoffmans and Hands, because both were my ancestors and because I suspect that at least two of the cases (see *) involved disputes about Mill ownerships or waterways. To this day you can notice on a map how close Hoffman's Mill(s) and Hand's Mill are, and a synopsis by Glenn Bingham once clarified that Jonas Hoffman originally owned both. I am posting this on NJ-Cumberland and Cape RootsWeb, too, because the borders changed in this vicinity once or twice. It is apparent that the years and case numbers do not perfectly line up, but if Jonas died in 1810 (as stated Roy Hand in "Mills . . . ") then it must have been a later Jonas Hoffman who served in the War of 1812 (in a unit headed by a Gandy, yet another name above.) These case numbers should provide a shortcut when an interested researcher next visits the NJ Archives. Please also see my other Hoffman/ Huffman post.