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The following info was obtained on family history of the HOFF & DYE families, and the two HOFF daughters of the Rev'd Daniel Hoff (1746 Raritan, NJ - ~1802 Nr.Manassas/Bull Run,VA) who intermarried into the DYE family (the two 1/2 brothers, Samual/Bub DYE and John Dye, II/Jr.), and who after the death of DANIEL HOFF moved with the combined families and other neighboring families in ~1805 from VA to Washington Co., OH. A helpful librarian there in Pr. William Co. answered an inquiry from one of our HOFF/DYE cousins thusly:
"You ask where you can obtain information on your DYE and HOFF ancestors who were in the Prince William County area ca. 1805. If you live locally, or if you have the opportunity to visit, you can view the resources listed below here in RELIC at Bull Run Regional Library. If you do not live locally, you can ask your public library to locate you copies of these books and/or journal articles through interlibrary loan.
We have a folder of information that was compiled on the DYE family in response to earlier queries.
An article titled “Dye Family of Prince William and Fairfax Counties, Virginia,” by Donald Lines Jacobus, was published in the National Genealogical Society Quarterly in September 1957 (vol. 45, p. 130-131).
The book Clover Hill Farm Cemetery (Grace United Methodist Church) compiled by Alice W. Johnson in 1996, includes the following in the preface:
“The Johnson, Dyes, and Hixons moved to Prince William and Fairfax Counties from New Jersey about 1770. The three families had intermarried….
The Dyes settled on the Prince William and Fairfax sides of Bull Run. John H. Dye son of John Dye Jr. was more industrial minded. In 1808 he purchased the Kincheloe “old mill site” in Fairfax County at the mouth of Popes Head where it empties into Bull Run. He built a grist mill, saw mill, fulling mill, and a general mill. It became know [sic] as Union Mills. More can be found about him in the writings of D’Anne Evans on Union Mills for Fairfax County.”
The book Clover Hill Farm Cemetery includes additional information about the DYE family, as does the book Stone Ground: A History of Union Mills, published in 2003 by the Fairfax History Commission and edited by Paula Elsey. The latter can be purchased from the following site http://www.co.fairfax.va.us/visitors/history/histcomm/book.h
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Per Prince William County, Virginia Deed Abstracts 1791-1794 by Ruth & Sam Sparacio, in Deed Book Y (1791-1796) pp. 53-56, on the 27th of October 1791, JOHN DYE purchases land from William Mathews and one of the witnesses to this deed is DANIEL HOFF.
Per the Prince William County General Index to Wills, 1734-1951, compiled by Joan W. Peters, JOHN DYE, Jr. left a will in 1798 (Will Book H, page 260); there is also an Inventory on Will Book H, page 275.
Per the Index to Virginia Estates 1800-1865, Volume 1, compiled by Wesley E. Pippenger, JOHN H. DYE leaves a will in 1827 (Will Book O, p. 371).
You can request microfilm copies of existing Prince William County Court Records, including deeds and wills through interlibary loan from The Library of Virignia at the following site http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whatwehave/local/local_rec/index.ht
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Hope this answers your questions.
Tish Como, Librarian I
Ruth E. Lloyd Information Center (RELIC)
for Genealogy and Local History
Bull Run Regional Library
8051 Ashton Avenue
Manassas, Virginia 20109
(703) 792-4540
(703) 792-4520 (fax)
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