> I am looking into the Vliets or Van Vliets as there is a possibility > that one of them married a William Huffman around the late 1700's or > early 1800's. The only info I have which might fit with what you're looking follows ... From "Genealogical and Memorial History of the State of New Jersey" by Francis Bazley Lee in 1910: quote (The Hoffman Line.) John Hoffman, the first member of this family of whom we have definite information, died July 2, 1801, aged sixty-nine years. The family is probably descended from the Palatines who settled first in Schoharie county, New York, whence John and others removed to New Jersey, John settling in Lebanon. He married (first) a woman whose name is unknown, and (second) Anna Dils. Children: 1. Peter, born September 2, 1766; died March 29, 1841; married (first) Mary Willett, who died March 27, 1801; married (second) Anna Peggin, who died April 22, 1809; married (third) Charlotte Pennear, who died February 28, 1812; and married (fourth) Catharine West, who suvived him; eleven children. 2. William, married, and had nine children. 3. John, married (first) Sarah Groendyke; (second) Sarah Henderson; six children. 4. George. 5. Margaret, married James Ramsey. 6. Sarah, referred to below. 7. Henry, born September 17, 1769; died January 25, 1833; married Rebecca Dils, sister to his father's second wife; eleven children. 8. Anna Jilianna, born November 20, 1771. 9. Elsie Catharine. 10. Joseph, married Mary Van Fleet; nine children. 11. Elizabeth, born March 11, 1787; married John Hall. 12. Jacob, married December 2, 1802, Hannah, daughter of David Traphagen; three children. (II) Sarah, daughter of John Hoffman of Lebanon, was born there May 30, 1777, and died in German Valley, April 19, 1857, and is buried at Mount Olive, Morris county, New Jersey. She married George Lindabury, referred to above. unquote -- Marshall Lake -- mlake@mlake.net -- http://mlake.net